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Brown Island is a small, private island in Friday Harbor on San Juan Island, San Juan County, Washington, United States. It lies just offshore to the east-northeast of the town of Friday Harbor, Washington.
Niven is the 1,650th victim identified in the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, that killed nearly 3,000 people after terrorists hijacked and crashed airplanes into the Twin Towers.
On the morning of 11 September 2001, 19 terrorists from the Islamist extreme group al Qaeda hijacked four commercial aircraft and crashed two of them into the North and South Towers of the...
- Rodney Gillis
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- Jason Thomas
- Children Aboard Flight 77
- Leroy Homer, Jr.
- Darryl Warner
- Marcy Borders
- Black Journalists
NYPD Sgt. Rodney Gillis was killed in the terror attacks on the World Trade Center while he was saving people. “That was what Rodney would do,” former NYPD detective Madeline Lawrence recalled in an interview with USA Today. Lawrence said Gillis always put others first, as evidenced by how he jumped to action even though he wasn’t on duty that day....
The stories of a group of African American firefighters — Vernon Cherry, Tarel Coleman, Andre Fletcher, Keith Glascoe, Ronnie L. Henderson, William L. Henry Jr., Gerard Jean Baptiste, Karl Joseph, Keithroy Maynard, Shawn E. Powell, Vernon Richard and Leon W. Smith Jr. — who gave their lives at the World Trade Center site to save others on 9/11 have...
U.S. Marine Jason Thomas, who was 32 at the time, ran “toward Ground Zero” at the World Trade Center with only a flashlight and a shovel and made the decision to help as many people as he could. He ended up unearthing a pair of police officers buried beneath 20 feet of debris. But then Thomas disappeared. No one knew of his identity until he was fi...
Way too young to understand the evils of the world, three bright lights were permanently dimmed on 9/11: Asia Cottom, Rodney Dickens and Bernard Curtis Brown II. All age 11, the children were aboard the fateful Flight 77 when it crashed into the Pentagon. The precocious youths had been handpicked to representthree middle schools in the Washington, ...
LeRoy Homer, Jr., grew up in Long Island and always dreamed of becoming a pilot. So when he began flying for United Airlines in 1995, his dream was finally realized. On Sept. 11, 2001, Homer, 36, was assigned to Flight 93 from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco. Four al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked his plane, but after learning about the other crash...
Chief Technician in the gross anatomy lab at the City College of New York and scientist Darryl Warneris a special hero who had a unique job: He was the country’s only African American diener, making him responsible for locating donor bodies to be utilized by medical school students. When 9/11 took place, Warner did not think of himself or his healt...
And who could forget Marcy Borders? The dramatic image of her covered in soot from the fallen towers defined the 9/11 attacks. She died of stomach cancer in 2016, an illness that may have been brought on by the toxic fumes emitted from the terror attacks. The illness is believed to be the blame for similar deaths in other survivors from that day in...
Veteran journalist Richard Prince compiled a number of attestations from his fellow Black journalists who were working on the morning when the Twin Towers were struck by terrorist-steered airliners 22 years ago. From heralded newsrooms like CNN, the Washington Post, the Associated Press and others, Sept. 11 was a day “in which Black journalists wer...
Sep 10, 2023 · WASHINGTON — On Monday, events will be held across the nation in memory of the countless lives lost during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Check out our list of local events happening...
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Sep 11, 2023 · WASHINGTON - The D.C. region is marking 22 years since the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil by honoring those who lost their lives. First lady Dr. Jill Biden will participate in an...
Sep 12, 2022 · Tributes for the victims of 9/11 on the 21st anniversary of the terror attacks poured in across the D.C. area, including from President Joe Biden, the mayor of D.C., a man on a four-day mission...
