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WTC Steel Angel to Honor 9-Year-Old Arizona Shooting Victim Born on 9/11
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- A piece of World Trade Center steel is being molded into an angel in the memory of a girl who was born on Sept. 11, 2001, and died in a barrage of gunfire in the Tucson, Ariz., shooting rampage that injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. The 5 1/2-foot-long fragment of an I-beam was to be picked up from a hangar at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Wednesday before being trucked to Arizona in time for an April 1 dedication ceremony. The Freedom's Steadfast Angel of Love statue will incorporate artifacts from the Sept. 11 attack on the Pentagon and the crash of United Airlines ...
NYPD Helicopter Video Shows 9/11 Aftermath [VIDEO]
By Lisa Flam - AOL News"Holy crap!" a man shouts, watching the aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks. A new 17-minute video of the twin towers after they were hit on Sept. 11, 2001, taken from aboard a New York Police Department helicopter, shows thick, black smoke billowing out into the Lower Manhattan sky. The video was posted by the website Cryptome, which says it publishes documents that are "open, secret and classified." In posting the video on YouTube, the group said the video was provided by NYPD to the National Institute of Standards and Technology for its trade center investigation. "Holy crap! ...
WikiLeaks Cable Reveals More Suspected 9/11 Plotters
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsA classified U.S. diplomatic cable released by the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks has revealed the existence of previously undisclosed suspects linked to the 9/11 plot. According to the document, three men from the Gulf Arab state of Qatar visited target sites in New York and Washington in the month leading up to the attacks before leaving the country on Sept. 10, 2001. The British newspaper The Telegraph, which published the document, reports that the FBI has launched an international manhunt for the team. However, a U.S. official told The Washington Post that prosecutors studied the case in ...
The Challenger Explosion and Other Deadly Spectacles Caught on Film [VIDEOS]
By Torie Bosch - AOL News"Where were you when you saw the Challenger explosion?" Or the World Trade Center towers collapse? There are some moments that we all as a nation remember clearly -- largely because we saw the horrifying images play out on our television screens. When the space shuttle Challenger disaster occured, televisions across the U.S. were watching the shuttle launch. Here is the unsettling footage. Of course, that's not the only time we've seen such an event happen in real time. In 2003, we also saw the space shuttle Columbia fall apart upon re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing ...
Miracle on the Hudson: Impact Felt 2 Years Later
By Laura Parker - AOL NewsTwo years ago today, Amy Jolly stood on the wing of a 70-ton Airbus in the middle of the frigid Hudson River, trying not to panic over what had just happened. US Airways Flight 1549 had been aloft less than 100 seconds after taking off from New York's LaGuardia Airport when it hit a flock of Canada geese. Both engines were knocked out. Less than three and a half minutes later, Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger safely crash-landed the plane on the river. Jolly and the 154 others on board scrambled outside. All survived. Jolly, a department store clothing buyer who travels regularly for work, ...
Youngest Arizona Shooting Victim Laid to Rest
By not in system - AOL NewsTUCSON, Ariz. - Some 2,000 mourners packed a Catholic church to honor Christina Taylor Green, the bubbly 9-year-old who was the youngest victim of the Arizona shootings, while hundreds more lined streets outside in a show of unity and support. Christina's was the first of half-a-dozen funerals in the coming days, and was to be followed Friday with a service for U.S. District Judge John Roll at the same church, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. Security was expected to be tight at the ceremony, with many federal judges among the mourners. Roll and Christina were among six people killed Saturday when a ...
Funeral for Youngest Shooting Victim to Celebrate 'A Little Bright Light'
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsThe distraught parents of the youngest Arizona shooting victim walked into their daughter's funeral today under an archway draped with an American flag nearly destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001 -- the very day their daughter was born. Two fire trucks' ladders were extended into the sky at the entrance to St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church in Tucson, where Christina Taylor Green's life -- cut short at just 9 years -- was being celebrated today. The funeral began at 3 p.m. EST. A giant, 20-by-30 foot flag rescued from the rubble of the World Trade Center was hoisted up between them, creating an ...
World Trade Center Flag to Fly at Christina Green's Funeral
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsThe flag that was recovered from the World Trade Center will be on display at the funeral of 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green, who was born on Sept. 11, 2001, and was killed in Saturday's shooting in Arizona. The Arizona Republic reports that the giant, 20-by-30 foot flag, which firefighters famously hoisted over the rubble of the World Trade Center, is headed to Tucson for Green's funeral on Thursday. New York City firefighter Jimmy Sands carried the flag with him from New York on a flight to Arizona on Tuesday evening. Mary Schwalm, AP The National 9/11 Flag will be displayed ...
Obama Signs Sept. 11 First Responders Bill
By not in system - AOL NewsHONOLULU - President Barack Obama said Sunday he was honored to sign a bill to provide aid to survivors of the Sept. 11 attacks and first responders who became ill working in the ruins at the World Trade Center. "We will never forget the selfless courage demonstrated by the firefighters, police officers and first responders who risked their lives to save others," Obama said in a statement. "I believe this is a critical step for those who continue to bear the physical scars of those attacks." The James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act was named after a police officer who died of a ...
Senate Falls Short on Health Care Fund for 9/11 Workers
By not in system - AOL News(Dec. 10) - Handing New York lawmakers a huge setback, the Senate fell three votes short of mustering enough support to pass a bill offering health care benefits and compensation to the ill Ground Zero workers who cleaned up the mess after the 9/11 attacks. ...
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