September 11, 2002 special edition

Wednesday, September 11, 2002

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Patterson Jr.• Robert Jay Hayes • Seima Aoyama • Tara Kathleen Creamer • Darlene E. Flagg • John P. Sammartino • Norma Cruz Khan • Vicki C. Yancey • Allen P. Boyle • Jack D. Punches • John (Jay) J. Corcoran III• Ralph Francis Kershaw • LeRoy Wilton Homer Jr.• Georgine Rose Corrigan • Samantha L. Lightbourn-Allen • Angelene C. Carter • Craig Amundson • Sharon A. Carver • John J. Chada • Ada M. Davis • Amelia V. Fields • Cortez Ghee • Brenda C. Gibson • Ron F. Golinski • Diane M. Hale-McKinzy • Carolyn B. Halmon • Jimmie Ira Holley • Peggie M. Hurt • Brenda Kegler • Sheila M. S. Hein • David W. Laychak • Teresa M. Martin • Ada L. Mason-Acker • Robert J. Maxwell • Molly L. McKenzie • Odessa V. Morris • Teddington H. Moy • Diana Borrero de Padro • Deborah A. Ramsaur • Rhonda Sue Rasmussen • Martha M. Reszke • Betty Ann Ong • Alexander Milan Filipov • Anna Williams Allison • Barbara Keating • David Kovalcin • Patrick Currivan • Thomas Nicholas Pecorelli • Ann C. Judge • Chandler R. 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In words and music, ceremonies and symbols, nation to mark Sept. 11 The Associated Press

A sampling of how the country will remember the Sept. 11 victims with words and music, symbols and deeds:

Words and music

■ Morning bagpipe procession in New York City will lead to ground zero, where Gov. George Pataki will read Gettysburg Address, former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani will start recitation of victims’ names, New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey will read parts of the Declaration of Independence.

President Bush to lay wreath at ground zero in the afternoon, and at 9:01 p.m., he is to address the nation from the city. At sunset, world leaders will light an eternal flame at Battery Park as Mayor Michael Bloomberg reads from President Franklin Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” speech. Pataki has called for moments of silence at key times of the trade center attacks. In Albany, outdoor speaker system will broadcast a tape of bells tolling, as well as a round of taps at the time of each plane crash.

■ Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld will speak at Pentagon. The large U.S. flag flown on the building’s side after the attack will be unfurled, and a moment of silence observed.

■ In Pennsylvania, family members of Flight 93 victims to gather at crash site, and a 2,000pound bell will toll 40 times. Bush to visit the area.

■ Candlelight tribute in Las Vegas to feature bagpipers and honor guard; evening interfaith service at a Reno park to include release of peace doves.

■ Public ceremony planned at Oklahoma City National Memorial, which marks what had been the worst act of terrorism on American soil before Sept. 11.

■ In Council Bluffs, Iowa, roses will be placed at ceremonial bell used to mark the loss of firefighters in honor of attack victims,

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On the cover The cover of this special section contains the names of 2,999 victims of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, as reported on an Associated Press database.The list was last revised on Friday and includes 2,930 people confirmed dead, 43 reported dead and 26 missing. civilians who helped with rescue and nation’s support.

■ Los Angeles asking houses of worship to ring bells at 5:46 a.m. Flame will be lit at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum; procession of emergency vehicles to roll through city.

■ Chicago residents asked to observe three minutes of silence at noon, and church bells throughout Chicago to be rung. Mass reading of interfaith prayer planned at Daley Plaza.

■ Relatives of several former Nebraskans who were killed will join governor at evening memorial, where 20 immigrants will be naturalized as U.S. citizens.

Symbols

■ Monument created from Indiana limestone to be dedicated at Statehouse in Indianapolis.

Evansville will see dedication of Habitat for Humanity house built by firefighters in memory of firefighters killed in New York City.

■ The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston will unveil “United in Memory Quilt” with more than 3,000 squares, one for each victim.

■ Dedication of the Wabasha Freedom Bridge in Minnesota will feature more than 75 U.S. flags, and a Minneapolis school will dedicate a stadium to victims.

■ Wilmot, N.H., will dedicate a bandstand built in memory of a resident who was aboard one of the hijacked flights.

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San Francisco fire and police officials joined Giants officials Sept. 4 in dedicating a memoral to Sept. 11 victims in San Francisco. The group unveiled the memorial at Pacific Bell Park, behind a statue of Giants great Willie Mays.

Names of all who lost their lives in the Sept. 11 attack are on the the memorial.

Deeds

■ Three thousand motorcyle riders will wear bracelets bearing victims’ names in six-mile ride to Arizona Capitol in Phoenix. Also at the Capitol, hundreds of residents expected to form human chain. In Tucson, organizers hoping to attract 10,000 people to form a giant, lighted “9-11” on a sports complex field.

■ San Francisco’s City Hall will open at 4:30 a.m. so people can sign commemorative book to be sent to New York. By 5:30 a.m., a daylong peace demonstration will begin in a downtown plaza.

■ Children at some Augusta,

Ga., elementary schools will dress in red, white and blue; at other schools, students will gather around flagpoles to sing “God Bless America.”

■ Baltimore residents to create 12-mile “Peace Path.” Organizers hope to have three or four people on each block holding peace signs written in different languages.

■ About 5,000 people expected to create living American flag by holding red, white and blue cards at a Columbus, Ohio, stadium.

■ For the first time since 1991, the Library of Virginia in Richmond, Va., will display the state’s 1789 manuscript copy of the proposed Bill of Rights, with its original 12 amendments.

Following are among events planned in north central Wisconsin this evening to mark the anniversary of the terrorist attacks.

■ Crossroads Assembly, 1930 Highway XX, Mosinee, will have a service at 7 p.m. Everyone is welcome, especially any firefighter, police officer, or community service workers.

■ First United Methodist Church, 903 Third St., Wausau, will offer a Taizé service at 6:30 p.m. Open to the community.

■ New Hope Community Church, E1045 S. Highway J, Wausau, will hold a patriotic prayer service at 7 p.m., featuring songs and prayers for our country and leaders.

■ The Wausau Barbershoppers — The River Valley Harmonizers, will present “United We Sing,” a patriotic singing memorial and audience sing-a-long at 6:30 p.m. on the square in downtown Wausau. The concert is free and open to the public. In case of rain, the concert will be held at the Elks Club.

■ St. Mary Catholic Church, Marathon, will have a Holy Hour of Prayer before the blessed sacrament from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., including candlelight procession, song, scripture, communal and personal prayer, concluding with adoration and benediction of the blessed sacrament.

■ The Church of St. Anne, 700 W. Bridge St., Wausau, will have Holy Hour at 7 p.m., beginning with exposition of the blessed sacrament. Civil service people, police, firefighters, nurses, etc., are invited to come in uniform. Holy Hour ends with benediction.

■ Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 503 Schmidt Ave., Rothschild, will hold a 6 p.m. candlelight service themed “Remembering the Past, Offering Hope for the Future.” The free-will offering will be sent to a church in New York City to help their people.

■ Episcopal Church of St. John the Baptist, 330 McClellan St., Wausau, will hold a 5:30 p.m. service of Remembrance and Hope.

■ United Methodist Church, 607 13th St., Mosinee, will hold a 7 p.m. prayer service at the church.

■ St. Mark Catholic Church, Rothschild, will have a Taizé prayer service at 7 p.m.

■ St. John Lutheran Church, E10723 Highway Z, Wausau, will have a Service of Remembrance and Prayer at 7:30 p.m.

■ St. Ambrose Episcopal Church, Sixth and Clermont streets, Antigo, plans an ecumenical memorial service at 7 p.m. Local emergency personnel who assisted in any way at the World Trade Center will be recognized during the service. Fellowship to follow in the lower level of the church. All denominations are welcome.

■ St. Therese Parish, Schofield, will hold a memorial Mass at 7 p.m.

■ Trinity Lutheran Church, 301 Elm St., Wausau, will hold meditation from 7:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., and reflections with the Rev. Donn Radde from 8 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

■ Trinity Lutheran Church, 501 Stewart Ave., Wausau, will hold a memorial service at 6:30 p.m.

■ St. Matthew Catholic Church, Wausau, will hold Eucharistic adoration from 7:10 p.m. to 9 p.m., followed by benediction.

■ Grace United Church of Christ, 535 S. Third Ave., Wausau, will have a service of remembrance at 7 p.m. The service includes prayers, scripture readings and music.

■ St. Stephen Lutheran Church, 424 N. Third Ave., Edgar, will have worship at 6:30 p.m. It will be a half-hour prayer service (a time for remembrance and prayers for peace).

■ Christ United Methodist Church, 300 N. Mill St., Merrill, will hold a special worship service at 7 p.m.

Participating churches include Christ United Methodist Church, Wildwood Chapel United Methodist ChurchGleason, First Presbyterian ChurchMerrill, Riverside Presbyterian Church-Gleason, and Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church-Merrill. Community members are welcome to attend.

■ Wausau Hospital Pastoral Services, Medallion Room of Community Health Care Wausau Hospital, will hold an all-day event that includes a Wall of Remembrance listing victims’ names, memorial services and readings and refreshments.

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Attacks end life of devotion to others, God Merrill couple’s son was inspiration to friends, family

By Peter J.Wasson Wausau Daily Herald pwasson@wdhprint.com

Jason Oswald did not become a hero on Sept. 11. He had been one for years to all who knew him, to all who witnessed his daily feats of courage and strength.

Oswald, a 28-year-old accountant and bond trader who adopted his parents’ Merrill residence as his home away from home, lived a quiet, humble and remarkably trouble-free life until a year ago.

His friends and family members describe Jason as studious, smart, witty and outgoing. He was the best Trivial Pursuit partner because “no one could beat him.

He knew things about such a wide variety of topics,” college friend and roommate Jonathan Swindle said.

He also was a devout Christian, a man who accepted the Lord into his life at age 8 and spent the next 20 years following in his footsteps, “always putting other people first,” said another friend, Tom Lambert.

“After his death we found his journal and in his journal, he writes about other people, not himself.

That’s why we all loved him.”

That’s what makes Jason’s death even more tragic. This man who would never harm another soul, who had a kind word or helping hand for everyone, was killed by a group of men who believed they were carrying out God’s will.

It’s a reality that Jason’s loved ones still are struggling to accept, a year after terrorists intentionally flew an airplane into the side of 1 World Trade Center and ended the life of a man who wanted nothing more than to do God’s work.

“He was a Christian in the true sense of the word,” Jason’s aunt Betty Grimes said in an interview from her Kansas home. “He did the things the Bible tells us we should do. He lived a life worthy of God. We all know, because he walked with God, that he was there for a reason that day. He had done the work God wanted him to do and it was time for him to begin his eternal life.”

Growing up Jason’s life began Dec. 18, 1972, in Chicago, the first child of Ken and Jane Oswald. They lived there until Jason was 4, when the family moved to Houston.

There, Ken Oswald started a shipping business, Quality Exports, and Jane worked as a nurse in a doctor’s office once her children were school-age.

Even as a child, the devout young man that Jason would become was beginning to emerge.

He never got in trouble, always studied hard and passed his time reading and meditating, Grimes said. He was 11 months older than his sister, Jennifer, who said in an interview from her Houston home that they never had typical sibling troubles. They didn’t pick on each other or argue over whose turn it was to do the dishes.

“Jason was always the really nice one,” said Jennifer Chen, 28, who breaks down in tears when discussing her brother.

“I was always trying to get him in trouble,” she said. “I was the bad one, the one giving my parents trouble. He was quiet and smart and witty. Once, we were at the neighborhood pool and I got him in trouble for something. He was going to push me in and I told Mom and it looked like he was at fault. I think that really was the only spanking he got growing up. I got them every week.”

In school, Jason got almost straight A’s and was placed in gifted and talented programs. He spent his summers at Bible

camps, first as a camper and later as a counselor.

“The most important event in his childhood?” Chen said. “I would say it was the day he placed his trust in the Lord when he was 8. He and my dad were out hunting or fishing and my dad talked to him about it. He actually prayed that day and asked Christ to come into his life and his heart.”

That day was the foundation upon which the rest of Jason’s life was built. From age 8 on, he was a model child.

“One time, and this is as bad as it gets, Jason was sent home from camp because you weren’t supposed to have anything to do with girls and he held a girl’s hand,” Grimes, his aunt, said. “That was probably in eighth grade.”

In Jason’s words

A young adult

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Jason followed his faith when he moved to Illinois and entered the evangelical Christian school Wheaton College. It was the same school attended earlier by Todd Beamer, now famous for uttering “Let’s roll” before helping other passengers try to overpower hijackers on United Flight 93.

That plane crashed in a Pennsylvania field.

Jason wanted to find a vocation and career, but he also wanted his relationship with God to grow.

At Wheaton, Jason met Swindle, who would become his closest friend.

“My girlfriend was his girlfriend’s roommate and we went on a ski trip together at Devils’ Head near Baraboo,” said Swindle, a 29year-old Chicago real estate broker. “We got to know one another over that weekend. He was very intelligent and centered. He was a very stable, bright-eyed, determined person.”

In college, Jason played on the school’s volleyball team and was involved in student government.

He went fishing, took road trips to Chicago for music festivals and gradually became Swindle’s role model.

Like other friends, Swindle couldn’t find one bad word to say about Jason. He couldn’t think of one poor decision the young man ever made or one problem he had during years that are often the most difficult in a person’s life.

“He didn’t struggle at anything he did,” Swindle said. “He made life look easy. I don’t say that in retrospect. I would say that when he was alive. He was the kind of person I wanted to be more like.”

On his own Jason graduated from Wheaton College, went on to earn a master’s degree and settled down as an accountant for PricewaterhouseCoopers in Chicago.

He went to church every Sunday, jogged along the Lake Michigan shoreline and never even played hookey from work to take in a Chicago Cubs game at his beloved Wrigley Field, six blocks from the Lincoln Park apartment he shared with Swindle.

He was, by all accounts, almost too good to be true.

“I told a lot of people when we were roommates that he was the best I ever had,” Swindle said. “We were together three years in Chicago and I can’t imagine anyone else you could live with for three years and never have a disagreement.”

In Chicago, Jason ran into Lambert, a fellow student from Wheaton College who was a friend of Swindle’s. Lambert and Jason knew each other in college but grew close in the city, where Lambert works as an attorney.

Jason Oswald moved to New York to be with the woman whom he planned to ask to marry him. He never got the chance to propose.

“Our religious commitments were really the glue (of the friendship),” Lambert said. “Jason was the sort of Christian that I try to be. He was serious about his faith but willing to embrace culture and the world of ideas.”

Lambert and Jason worked about two blocks apart from each other in the Loop and frequently commuted downtown together on the train, grabbed lunch at noon and went to dinner after long days.

Like Swindle, Lambert describes Jason as a young man of unusual character and compassion.

“He was an extremely caring friend to me,” Lambert said. “I saw it a lot. Soon before he left Chicago, I was going through a trial at work, which is an awful time for a lawyer in a big law firm.

It was a depressing time for me.

Jason would deliberately delay eating dinner and stuff so I would have something to look forward to at the end of the day. If it was too late to go out, we would order something. I really saw what a true friend he was.”

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‘The one’ At age 27, Jason had settled into a successful, happy and uneventful life in Chicago.

By that time, his parents had moved to Merrill and opened a bed and breakfast, and Jason adopted north central Wisconsin as a second home. When the Houston Oilers left Texas, Jason became a Green Bay Packers fan.

He, Swindle, Lambert and other friends frequently went north for ski trips to Granite Peak in Rib Mountain or camping at Council Grounds State Park in Merrill.

They also established an annual tradition of spending Labor Day weekends at a cottage near Three Lakes.

Jason was content in all areas of his life save one: He wanted to meet the perfect woman.

“There were lots of girls who liked him and he dated a lot of girls from college on,” Swindle said.

“But when he met Nancy, he met the one. They were both bright and ambitious and making the most of their age and intelligence.”

Oswald sails during a vacation to California. He loved outdoor sports, including skiing at Granite Peak at Rib Mountain and camping at Council Grounds State Park in Merrill.

Nancy is Nancy Prentis, a St. Louis native and old friend of Lambert’s whom Jason met in November 2000.

Prentis was living in New York and planning a visit to Chicago when Lambert and Swindle conspired to play matchmaker.

“They were just right for each other,” Lambert said. “They had a very good conversation, paid a lot of attention to each other. I remember Nancy complimenting him on his pants, saying they were very ‘old school.’ That was a very high compliment from her.”

The compliment on his slacks

was the beginning. Prentis and Jason got to know each other via e-mails and occasional phone calls, Swindle and Lambert said.

Prentis could not be reached for comment for this story, but Lambert said she fell for Jason because he was quiet and almost boring, not in spite of those characteristics.

Jason was reliable, uncontroversial, stable and predictable. That is why it was such a shock when he announced he was quitting his job and moving east to be near Prentis.

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MERRILL — A year later, there are good days and there are bad days, Jane Oswald says.

Losing her son in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 has caused her and her husband, Ken, unfathomable pain.

She’ll be fine for a while, working hard at the business she and Ken own, the Checkered Churn in downtown Merrill. The business is a diverse little venture. They recently expanded it, serving coffee, sandwiches and treats in addition to selling antique and craft items and framing artwork.

But then she’ll be in a store sometime, and see a mother with a small son, and the waves of grief wash over her once again.

The anniversary of Sept. 11, with its associated thoughts, reminders, news coverage and memorials, also is bringing it back.

That, along with the fact that tangible evidence of Jason’s body was found by New York police officials Oswald and Jonathan Swindle (right) took annual camping trips to Long in early August, has reopened a Lake in Three Lakes, Wis.This photo was taken during the summer of 2000. deep wound that hasn’t had a

Every senior in the Wheaton College business and economics department must write a paper on what it means to be a success.

Jason Oswald wrote this in 1995: "If we could realize daily the brevity of our lives, our definitions of success would take on a more eternal scope. . . .

I would hope that I would not be one . . . from whom God would have to wipe away remorseful tears."

For more on this, visit the college’s Web site at http://www.wheaton.edu/ front/911/obit3.html

“I always say we lost our son.The word ‘die’ is just so final.”

— Jane Oswald chance to heal, and probably never will.

A Merrill police officer walked into the store on Aug. 6 to relay the message that Jason’s remains had been identified. Jane Oswald said it “was real hard evidence,” but she also acknowledged that “to this day, I have a real hard time saying that he died.

“I always say we lost our son.

The word ‘die’ is just so final.”

In the store that day, the officer asked Oswald if she would be all right.

“I said, ‘Yeah.’ He left and I fell apart,” she said. “I ran to the phone to call Ken.” Even though it hurts to talk about Jason, it’s soothing, too. “You don’t want to forget,” she said. “I think we’re doing OK. You have to go on, you know? Life goes on as

much as you hate it to.”

Oswald said she didn’t know what she would do today. She planned to close the store for sure.

But there was to be a memorial service at Jason’s alma mater, Wheaton College, and Gov. Scott McCallum invited the Oswald family to Madison for a memorial service there.

She doesn’t want to relive the tragedy through the news coverage. She was glued to Fox television news when the attacks occurred, but she couldn’t stand watching the planes crash into the buildings.

“I think you see terror. And I think as a mom, that’s the worst thing to happen is to see your kids afraid and not be able to help them,” she said. “I’d have to turn my head. ... You’d see it at night when you’d close your eyes.”

She and Ken are relying on their faith in God to see them through. Ken Oswald declined to be interviewed for this story.

“We have a good God,” Jane Oswald said. “We keep telling ourselves that Jason’s in a better place.”

The most important event in his childhood? I would say it was the day he placed his trust in the Lord when he was 8. He and my dad were out hunting or fishing and my dad talked to him about it. He actually prayed that day and asked Christ to come into his life and his heart.

Jennifer Chen Jason Oswald’s sister

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If I was too lazy or too critical of people, he would reprimand me.

When he moved to New York, I struggled to find a roommate because I wanted someone like him. More often than not, when I think about him, it’s with a smile, not a tear in my eye.

Jonathan Swindle friend and roommate

Victims with Wisconsin ties The Associated Press

A list of victims in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks with Wisconsin ties, according to family members and other sources: ■ Andrea Haberman, 25, was visiting the World Trade Center office of the Carr Futures brokerage firm for which she worked in Chicago. Her parents, Gordon and Kathy Haberman, live in rural

West Bend.

■ John Hart, 38, who worked for Franklin Templeton Investments of San Mateo, Calif., was on the 91st floor of the second tower giving a business seminar when the terrorist plane struck. Hart’s mother, stepfather and sisters live in the Eau Claire area.

■ Army Lt. Col. Dennis Johnson, 48, had an office in the

Pentagon near where the plane struck. His parents are Robert and Elva Johnson of Port Edwards.

■ Scott Johnson, 26, was a securities analyst for Keefe, Bruyette and Woods, an investment banking firm in the World Trade Center. Relatives live in Racine, including his grandfather, H. Norman Johnson.

■ Jason Oswald, 28, worked at the World Trade Center for the investment firm Cantor Fitzgerald. His parents, Ken and Jane Oswald, live in Merrill.

■ Michell Robotham, 32, worked in the second World Trade Center tower as help desk manager in the information technology department at Aon Insurance on the 103rd floor. Robotham lived in

Houston and Wisconsin — including Neenah, Milwaukee and Land O’Lakes — most of her life, until she moved to Kearny, N.J. two years before her death. Her aunts and uncles live in Menasha, Neenah and Clintonville.

■ Patricia Statz, 41, was a civilian worker at the Pentagon. Her parents, Vince and JoAnn Statz, live in Chippewa Falls.

Oswald and Swindle posed for this photo just before running the 2000 Chicago Marathon.

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Oswald: Devout, selfless From Page 3C “When I heard he was moving to New York for a girl I said, ‘Wow, this has to be the one,’” Chen said.

“He’s not like that. He always had his ducks in a row before he did anything.”

On to New York Jason moved in with another friend in New York City and began looking for work, living on money he had saved while living frugally in Chicago.

“And he got to know Nancy,” Lambert said. “They spent a lot of time learning each other. He told me on Labor Day weekend that he was going to ask her to marry him. He never got to.”

Jason’s move to New York was bittersweet for Swindle. He was happy that his friend had found the perfect girl, but he knew he would never find another roommate like Jason.

“If I was too lazy or too critical of people, he would reprimand me,” Swindle said. “When he moved to New York, I struggled to find a roommate because I wanted someone like him. More often than not, when I think about him, it’s with a smile, not a tear in my eye.”

Jason took a job as a bond trader with Cantor Fitzgerald in August 2001, more to earn a living than to pursue a new career.

“One of the great ironies, I think, is this job was not his dream job or anything and it ended up taking his life,” Lambert said. “That’s tragic.”

9/11/01 On the morning of Sept. 11, Jason met Prentis for coffee then headed to work in the north tower of the World Trade Center. About 15 minutes after he said goodbye to his girlfriend, the first plane slammed into the tower about 10 floors below Jason’s office.

No one knows what Jason did after the crash saturated the tower with burning jet fuel, cutting off escape paths from the floors above.

But Grimes is certain her nephew spent his last moments on earth comforting someone who was hurt or trying to lead co-workers to safety. His sister is sure of it, too.

“I know he was trying to help

“One of the great ironies, I think, is this job was not his dream job or anything and it ended up taking his life.That’s tragic.”

— Tom Lambert, friend someone,” Chen said. “That’s part of his character. I hope he didn’t suffer any pain, that it was quick and that he was with other people.”

The attack took the lives of 658 Cantor Fitzgerald employees and left Jason’s friends and family members with gaping holes in their hearts.

It has been a year since that terrible day, but the Oswalds still don’t have a body to bury. They don’t have a grave to visit or a headstone to drape with flowers on anniversaries.

What they do have is Jason’s journal, a collection of writings that reveal more about the young man than any friend’s words ever could.

“After Sept. 11, I went back to New York to help go through his things and Nancy had found his journal, which of course we read,” Lambert said. “He prayed for his friends. His friends’ concerns were in his mind, and he’d write about praying for them in his journal.

That speaks volumes about who he is, who he was.”

Every one of Jason’s friends and family members said they are certain that the young man they love is in heaven now and that he has forgiven the terrorists who ended his life.

“Death didn’t scare Jason,” Grimes said. “None of us wants the pain of death but we all face eternity. If anything would have hurt Jason, it would have been the people he left behind.

“I know it sounds like, you know, you don’t speak ill of the dead. But we talked this way about him when he was alive. When we would get together as a family, Jason was the very best of our whole bunch. He was a good, good kid. He was a godly young man and he was a good boy, what every mother would want.”

Fewer than 100 on ‘missing’ list

By Sara Kugler The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Missing. The word has lost its hopeful luster since the days when families plastered the city with photographs of those who didn’t come home on the night of Sept. 11.

“If you’ve seen her, call us,” the fliers begged, offering optimistic details on the eye color, scars and freckles of the lost. “With any information please call.”

Today, fewer than 100 names will remain on the missing list. No one disputes they are gone, but the city will not list them among the confirmed dead until remains are identified or their grieving relatives bring themselves to apply for a death certificate.

“It’s very hard to live with the fact that somebody can just disappear like that without a trace,” said Dee Ragusa, whose son Michael Ragusa, 29, is among a number of firefighters still classified as missing. “He just went ‘poof’ in the air one day.”

In their hearts, the Ragusas know that Michael is gone. But like many families whose loved ones vanished on Sept. 11, they admit they still look for his face in the crowds. Some widows said they even called homeless shelters in lower Manhattan, searching for their husbands.

“I think there isn’t one person who isn’t missing a loved one that still doesn’t have that ounce of hope,” Ragusa said. “You know he’s gone, but we don’t have any proof yet. Maybe he chickened out and ran away — you go through all those scenarios.”

Ragusa said her family is not in denial about Michael’s death. But they’ve debated whether he could have amnesia or might be scared to come home.

“There’s just that little bit of

hope. Because he hasn’t been found, you say ‘maybe,”’ she said.

The victims on the missing list do not have court-issued death certificates generally for two reasons — either their families don’t want to apply or haven’t been able to, according to Police Inspector Jeremiah Quinlan, who heads the trade center missing persons investigation.

Victims’ relatives who live in other countries may not have applied because the process can be hard from far away. Families of undocumented workers may have trouble proving their loved ones were in the trade center.

More than 60 of the missing are rescue workers. Many of their families have held memorial services for the dead, but have not been able to force themselves to apply for the death certificates, which state, “Body Missing.”

“I’m not delusional or kidding myself. I know he was there and I know he’s not coming home,” said Donna Hickey, whose husband, Capt. Brian Hickey, is among the missing. “But it’s not going to change anything; it’s not going to be this light going on, ‘Oh, OK, now I know.’ It’s a piece of paper that doesn’t tell us anything.”

Hickey’s family mourned him at a memorial service in Bethpage, N.Y., on June 11, nine months after he disappeared, on what would have been his 48th birthday. His wife and four children laid to rest a coffin that holds his crushed, dirtcaked helmet — the only sign of him found in the ruins.

Hickey said she eventually will apply for a death certificate, at her lawyer’s urging. “To this day, I have not been told my husband’s gone,” Hickey said. “I haven’t been told he’s dead. The building came down and he wasn’t found and that’s just the way it is.”

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Parents of soldiers proud Marine’s mother worries, of course, but knows he’s a hero

By Peter J.Wasson Wausau Daily Herald pwasson@wdhprint.com

It was the evening of Aug. 30 when the phone rang in Alice Andraski’s Wausau home and she heard her son’s voice for the first time in weeks.

Normally a call from Jeremy Weller is a joyous event. The U.S. Marine Corps doesn’t allow him to make many calls, and every one is a chance to catch up and renew bonds.

But this was different.

“He said he was calling me, his dad and his wife and that’s what scares me,” Andraski said the morning after the call. “We don’t know where he is or what he’s doing. Why would he be calling all of us like that? He thanked me for everything I’ve done in his life. I had a rough night after that. I cried a lot. He must be going somewhere, getting ready.”

Like so many other parents, spouses, brothers and sisters safe on American soil today, Andraski will spend the anniversary of the country’s worst terrorist attack worrying about loved ones who are fighting in the war on terrorism.

Jeremy, 24, is the second of Andraski’s three sons, and all are Marines. She has come to a horrible realization about all her boys, best expressed by Jeremy’s words during that phone call.

“He said he’s not fearful of dying,” Andraski said, clutching a tissue soaked with tears. “He said he got a medallion somewhere that depicts a firefighter from the World Trade Center handing an American flag to a Marine, and the Marine is saying, ‘We’ll take it from here.’

That’s the image I have. Our soldiers are taking it from here.”

Across town in Schofield, Gil Holcomb III harbors a similar image.

A year ago, he watched as the second airliner slammed into the World Trade Center live on television and realized that the first crash was no accident.

Holcomb, 56, is a former member of the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne division and a retired member of the Army Reserves.

When the second plane hit, he picked up the phone and volunteered to do whatever it took to bring the terrorists to justice.

The Army told Holcomb he was too old to re-enlist, so the retired Wausau Insurance Cos. vice president did the next best thing: He sent his son, James.

“I wanted to get back in it, just like James did when he saw the attack,” Holcomb said. “When he went in, James wanted to get the training so he could get into the fight right away.”

James, 22, got his wish. In October, he was accepted into his father’s old division, the 82nd Airborne. In January, he was

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Gil Holcomb III and his wife, Ruth, hang two flags in their window as a tribute to their two sons in the military.

Holcomb, a Vietnam War veteran, was so angered by the Sept. 11 attacks that he wanted to re-enlist.

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Jeremy Weller, a sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps, shows pictures from his military career to his mother, Alice Andraski (left), and wife, Emily, during a visit home in December. sent to Afghanistan. and I understand what he’s “The first day in-country, they doing,” the elder Holcomb said. were welcomed by being shot at,” “They’re hitting villages, looking said Gil Holcomb, whose other for certain individuals, like we son, Gil Holcomb IV, also spent did in ’Nam. They’re searching time in Afghanistan as a mem- caves, clearing mines, basically ber of the Wisconsin Air hunting the al-Qaida and National Guard’s 115th fighter Taliban. If something starts up, wing. they’ll roll out and respond to it.”

“James’ platoon is basically As a former soldier himself, such a good team that they’re Holcomb takes the uncertainty part of what is called a QRF, a in stride. He knows what it’s like quick reaction force. They’re the not to be able to discuss one’s first ones in when there’s trou- whereabouts or plans, and he ble.” knows what it’s like to be willing Like Andraski, Holcomb has to die for his country. no idea exactly where his son is Andraski isn’t coping as well. today. He receives occasional The fourth-grade teacher at phone calls, but James can’t give Hawthorn Hills Elementary him any details.

School knows Jeremy already “But we talk around in circles has been shot in the leg once, but

she doesn’t know where or how it happened.

She knows he’s been in Kosovo and was in the Middle Eastern country of Bahrain the last time he could tell her where he was.

She also knows Jeremy will become a father in February. His wife, Emily, is alone in Hawaii waiting and hoping that her husband will return.

But neither of them knows where Jeremy is, what he is doing or where he is going. All they have is the occasional, vague e-mail and those phone calls on Aug. 30.

“Talking to him gave me a glimpse into the soul of an American soldier,” Andraski said.

“A soldier understands his life is expendable. He told us it’s better that a few die rather than many more Americans. They want Americans to think of them willing to do that. My heart is heavy, hearing him say things like that.”

So it is with heavy hearts that Andraski and Holcomb will get through today, thinking about their children and hoping that other Americans realize there are local boys in dark corners of the world risking their own lives to prevent another terrorist attack.

“He’s a hero in my eyes,” Andraski said of her son. “When he’s willing to put his life ahead of the 15 young men he’s in charge of, that’s the mark of a hero. It’s the same mentality the firefighters and police officers had a year ago at the World Trade Center. They’re all heroes.”

Families remember lost through little things

By Sara Kugler The Associated Press

NEW YORK — The final days of their lives are documented in receipts from their last errands, doodles they drew for their children, messages they left on answering machines, clothing they wore before they were killed in the World Trade Center.

Then, they were gone, and these otherwise unremarkable things became treasures — evidence of some of the last things they did.

While politicians and the public will mark the anniversary of the attack with ceremonies, television specials and memorials, the families of the victims have clung to these little things to remember the lost.

Among the pile of mementos that Terry Strada has saved is the receipt from the pharmacy where she sent her husband on Sept. 8, when she needed special detergent for their day-old son’s baby clothes. She keeps the receipt with other things like his monthly parking pass, and a handwritten list of 10 names he liked for their baby.

“It seems kind of silly, but that’s what everyone does I guess,” Strada said. “This way, no matter how much time goes by, you’ll never forget, because you’ll have these things that remind you.”

The night before he was killed, Thomas Strada brought home baby gifts from three Cantor Fitzgerald co-workers, all of whom died with him in the trade center’s north tower the next day.

Strada also posted a heading on his e-mail that day, announcing baby Justin’s birth, “9 pounds, 2 ounces, 21 inches ... born 2:32 a.m.

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Terry Strada learned of the eDee Ragusa holds the firefighter’s dress hat of her son, Michael, at her home in Brooklyn. Michael Ragusa, a New York firefighter who died in the mail weeks later, and framed it for collapse of the World Trade Center towers, remains on the missing list her son.

“It’s the only thing he has,” because his body was not recovered.

“Everything you have, you’re happy that you have it, so it’s a joy, but it’s a reminder that he’s not here, so it’s a pain, too.”

— Holli Silver

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Gregory Hoffman, coach of the Queens Falcons youth football team, stands on the sidelines during practice at Juniper Valley Park in Queens, N.Y., in August. The football cleats hanging around Hoffman’s neck belonged to his twin brother and fellow coach, Stephen, who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Strada said.

The families of the lost have held on to countless e-mails and notes. Many widows have kept letters their husbands wrote years ago. Holli Silver’s breath catches when she comes across something with her husband’s handwriting — from anniversary cards to luggage tags to their checkbook ledger.

“That’s what I have, and that’s what I hold on to,” Silver said.

“Everything you have, you’re happy that you have it, so it’s a joy, but it’s a reminder that he’s not here, so it’s a pain, too.”

Much of what families have saved is piled together with keepsakes collected after the attacks — tapes from memorial services, sympathy cards, newspaper clippings, the urns of trade center debris that were given to families by the city.

Many have also preserved answering machine messages; at some homes, unanswered phone calls reach cheerful greetings from those who are now gone.

At Silver’s home, callers hear her husband saying, “Hi, you’ve reached David, Holli and Rachel Silver. Please leave a message.”

Silver said she doesn’t care if the greeting bothers anyone.

“I like to hear his voice, and so I want to keep that,” Silver said.

“It’s nice when I hear it.”

Every few days, Joan Kirwin replays an answering machine message that her husband, Glenn, left the night of Sept. 8. He was calling from the golf course to discuss a plan to meet for dinner.

“We’re on the sixth hole, just call us when you get here, and we’ll meet you in the clubhouse,” he says.

Kirwin has also saved little

things from over the years. In her wallet, she carries her husband’s Cantor Fitzgerald business card, now laminated with several photographs. Other items, like his Disney World pass from a family trip there four years ago, are collected in his nightstand cabinet.

The little things remind Kirwin of what now seems like a luxury — having a partner to share in the joys of life. Some memories, however, are still too painful. She still has not been able to sort through her husband’s closet.

When Stephen Hoffman’s family finally went through his things, his identical twin, Gregory, ended up with some of his clothing.

The hulking 6-foot-tall twins coached a youth football league together in Queens, where they grew up. The last time Gregory Hoffman saw his brother was on Sept. 8, when they held Saturday morning practice. This year, he wears his brother’s size 11 1/2 black high-top Nike cleats during games and practices.

Hoffman is among many victims’ relatives who say they appreciate the public memorials, but that the intensely private process of grieving depends on the little things.

“To us, it means so much, and no one knows,” he said. “It’s just what we do and how we choose to remember.”

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Ground Zero ‘We’re still burying our dead’ evokes variety of reactions

By Helen O’Neill

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Sitting on a beach in Cape Cod midsummer, the memories washed over him, jolting him, without warning, back to the horror.

For a moment, he imagined he was back on the pile, perched in all his fraility amongst the wretched panorama of smoke and smells and mangled steel, everything reaching skyward, everything scorched by hopelessness and death.

And he thought of the dead and how their ghosts haunt the firehouse, sometimes inspiring, sometimes unnerving, always there.

And he thought of all the eulogies he has delivered, all the widows he has comforted, all the wrenching decisions he has made trying to guide his men.

And he fingered the copper bracelet on his wrist that once belonged to Carl Asaro — handsome, talented Carl — his driver, his confidante, whom he loved like a son.

Alone among the dunes, the veteran fire chief wept.

And this is what he concluded and what he tells his men: It will always be with us, wherever we go, this terrible scar, these terrible memories, this terrible time.

“Where are we now?” Battalion 9 Chief Joseph Nardone asks, back at the firehouse at the end of the summer. He gives a huge, weary sigh.

“Who knows where we are. One year later, we’re still burying our dead.”

■■■ The tiny park across the street from the firehouse is a serene, shaded place with newly planted saplings, silver picnic tables and a cool gray cobblestone court.

In the center, a black granite fountain is engraved with the names of 15 firefighters.

Edward Geraghty. David Wooley. Daniel O’Callaghan.

A year ago they raced, with the others, from the little brown-brick firehouse at the corner of 8th Avenue and 48th Street to the World Trade Center. They never returned.

The park was created in their honor, a place for their families to leave flowers, for the public to pay tribute, for their “brothers” in Engine 54 and Ladder 4 and Battalion 9 to pause and remember and reflect.

Many of the firefighters do just that, stopping by the park when their busy shifts are over, to bow their heads, to ponder the past year, to say a prayer — often for the living as much as the dead.

In the park, says the chief, you get a break from the grief.

There’s an old saying among firefighters that the best way to bring a firehouse closer is to experience a lot of fires — or one death.

The “Broadway firehouse,” as this theater district station is known, is considered one of the busiest in the city, possibly the world. It averages 14,000 runs a year, alarms ringing so often that some firefighters don’t bother getting out of their turnout gear. Their motto is Never Missed a Performance.

But, until a year ago, they hadn’t had much practice with death.

On Sept. 11 the firehouse suffered one of the worst losses of any in the city. Fifteen men — an entire shift — perished.

“I guess that makes us really close,” says firefighter Jimmy Cooney with a sardonic smile.

“But the reality is I don’t think we could have been much closer.”

Closeness is what the firehouse is all about, these men who eat together and bunk together, who cook and clean and shop together, who run into burning buildings together with a sense of duty and fearlessness and pride. And when they leave the firehouse and head home, they socialize together, helping each other build basements, fix roofs, work jobs on the side.

Brothers, they call each other, and in every sense they are.

Sons have followed fathers and grandfathers into this firehouse.

Wives joke that the men are so close, their babies all arrive around the same time. There’s a photograph, taken a few years ago, of eight of the guys holding newborns. One of the new fathers perished in the towers.

Those who survived will never be the same.

Some have taken mental health leave, or are getting counseling for the first time in their lives. Others acknowledge they should be.

Weighing heavier than the grief, say some, is the guilt, especially among men who traded shifts with those who died.

And so, even one year later, no one in the firehouse talks of moving on. And “healing” seems an altogether inadequate word for the creeping sense of normalcy that is finally taking hold.

Gone are the mountains of flowers and candles and cakes and cards that piled up in front of the firehouse in those first days and weeks.

Gone are the celebrities — John

Some from area refused to visit site of attacks

By Keith Uhlig Wausau Daily Herald kuhlig@wdhprint.com

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Maris Oliveira, 22, (right) holds a gift of roses from her boyfriend, Jimmy Nardone, 22, as he is embraced by his father, Battalion 9 Chief Joseph Nardone, during a visit Aug. 16 to Engine 54 and Ladder 4 firehouse in New York.

On Sept. 11 the firehouse lost 15 men. Jimmy Nardone recalled a phone call from his father: “I never heard so much sadness and fear in his voice. He was crying, saying he lost so many people ... I was so happy he was alive.”

Travolta, who taught dance moves in the kitchen, Liz Taylor, who slipped in and graciously signed autographs, Don King, who swaggered in with so many cameras that some of the guys walked out in disgust.

Even the widows don’t visit as often.

But the ghosts are everywhere, tugging at emotions and memories, smiling from the flag-draped photographs on the wall, their names still scrawled on the roster boards, untouched since Sept. 11.

Today new rosters hang beneath them, one for Engine 54, one for Ladder 4, listing the daily duties of the living. The juxtaposition seems especially jarring some days, when the guys are too exhausted and the reminders are too painful and the guilt too overwhelming. And other days it feels just right.

“They are still such a strong presence in this firehouse,” says firefighter Billy Dunigan. “We still think about them and talk about them every day.”

But, he adds, “there’s more grinning than crying when we remember them these days.”

And yet tears are never far away.

Some of the men say they can’t bear to go to any more funerals, which are still being held throughout the department as DNA analysis painstakingly confirms the identity of more remains.

Some say they can’t bear an anniversary either.

“How can you think about an anniversary,” asks firefighter Pat Parrot, “when it’s not over, when we haven’t brought all our brothers home.”

The remains of only eight of the 15 lost from this firehouse have been identified.

And yet much of the hurly burly of firehouse life remains the same, if only because it is so busy. In the kitchen the jokes fly back and forth the way they always did, hamburgers still get burnt on the grill, the groans are just as loud when the alarm sounds at lunchtime and the men leap onto their rigs leaving yet another meal to get cold.

The rigs are new, replacing those lost at the towers. There are new faces too, like 25-year-old Marc Dore, whose first day on the job, first day hauling a hose, first day in his new firefighting gear and helmet, was on Sept. 11.

A few days earlier Captain David Wooley had welcomed Dore into the firehouse, his quiet authority making the nervous young “probie” feel immediately at ease. Brawny Mike Brennan, with his mischievous eyes and pierced tongue (Brennan’s way of getting around department regulations prohibiting “facial adornments”) had shown Dore his locker. Lenny “Rags” Ragaglia had shown him the rigs.

Dore went home that night thrilled. Over the phone he told his parents he had met the greatest bunch of guys in the world.

A year later Dore has been to their funerals, fought fires in their place, sat in their spots at the kitchen table, heard so many stories that sometimes he feels he knows the dead better than the living. “They inspire me,” he says.

The living inspire him, too.

Men like Chief Charlie Williams, who spent three relentless months on duty at Ground Zero, who identified and carried out the bodies of friends, who didn’t realize how much he had suffered until he came home and couldn’t function and couldn’t sleep and couldn’t bring himself to talk about the horrors he had witnessed at “the saddest place on earth.”

New York City is half a country away, but when terrorists used jet airliners to attack and destroy the towers of the World Trade Center, north central Wisconsin residents felt as if it were an assault on neighbors.

That feeling was especially acute for those who visit the city often or who have trekked to Ground Zero.

“For me, it had some kind of reverence that was like going to the Pearl Harbor Memorial,” said John Kolhoven, director of North Central Health Care Child Adolescent Services, who visited Ground Zero in October while on the East Coast for a conference. “It was a place that I felt was kind of sacred. ... I felt an incredible sense of sadness, a sadness and a kind of pride at the same time.”

The pride he felt stemmed from the way people of the United States rise up time and again, and that is part of the reason he felt compelled to get close to where the towers once stood. At the same time, he felt uncomfortable being so close to where such a horrific act took place.

“It was a push-pull kind of thing,” he said.

Jerome Hartwig, 58, of Wausau, a retired Wausau East High School English teacher, has been to New York five times since the attack, but he hasn’t gone down to where the Trade Center once towered over the city.

“I had never been to the World Trade Center before that, and I decided there was no reason for me to go now,” he said.

But he knows the attack changed the city, even though life seemed to have returned to normal the last time he was there, in mid-August.

He has many friends in the city, and “they really don’t talk about it anymore.”

Hartwig knows one married

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Tourists take pictures Saturday as a giant banner is raised overlooking the site of the World Trade Center disaster. couple, who are expecting a child and want to move from the city. But the rest of his friends want to hold fast, and Hartwig himself is considering a move there.

“We just need to keep going with our lives and not let them win,” he said.

Susan Ford-Hoffert, 46, director of advertising and communication at Wausau Benefits, said she visits the city an average of once a year, and she and her husband went there in December.

The Christmas decorations mixed with patriotic displays were “very, very touching,” she said.

Like Hartwig, she avoided the Trade Center area. “I felt it was inappropriate,” she said.

Ford-Hoffert loves visiting the city. “We go to wonderful restaurants. We shop. We wander the city. Sometimes we take in a play,” she said. “It’s a very exciting city. Your senses are overwhelmed. There is such a great breadth of activities when you go there.”

She noticed differences, though. Taxi drivers thanked them for coming to New York.

Fire trucks were dusty from the ashes from the fire. And memorials were still up near fire stations.

“That was hard. I think I didn’t want to deal with it,” FordHoffert said. “I felt grief, but it was their grief.”

Lt. Bob Jackson looks over fund-raising documents Aug. 12 with Bernadette Rafferty inside the kitchen at Engine 54 and Ladder 4 fire station in New York. Rafferty taped a photo of her brother, Michael Lynch, to a folder with information from businesses she solicits for contributions to establish a scholarship fund in his name. Lynch was among 15 men from the firehouse who died in the collapse of the World Trade Center.

And yet there were moments in the pit that Williams wouldn’t have traded with anyone. In early March, on his watch, firefighters found the remains of six men from Ladder 4: Daniel O’Callaghan, Joe Angelini, Michael Haub, Sam Otice, Mike Brennan and John Tipping. They were buried beneath the rubble of the south tower.

It was an honor, Williams says, to carry Danny home.

In the firehouse too, men discovered an inner strength that sometimes surprised them.

Lt. Bob Jackson, burly, blustery LBJ as he is called, who tears

through the firehouse like a tornado — bellowing orders, making decisions, wisecracking all the while — became a rock for the widows and children. Early on, Jackson and three others, Joe Cerevolo, Keith Kern and Joe Polisino, were taken off regular duty to act as liaison for the families. They organized memorials and funerals, bulldozed through red tape to help with identification and death certificates, broke the news to the children, and stood by the widows during some of their most painful moments — like last pilgrimages to the firehouse to clean out the lockers of the dead.

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Jerome Hartwig of Wausau has visited New York City five times since the terrorist attacks and has never visited the site of the World Trade Center. He has many friends in the city and is considering moving there.

DNA identification creates new forensic tools

By Malcolm Ritter The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Investigators using DNA for identification of World Trade Center-attack victims had to find new methods for analyzing thousands of bone and tissue samples, innovations that are expected to push their field forward.

“In terms of DNA identification of mass fatalities, this is a landmark case,” said Jack Ballantyne, associate director for research at the National Center for Forensic Science in Orlando, Fla. Experts in the trade center effort “have developed new technologies and new procedures that would definitely stand the country in good stead” for dealing with future mass disasters, Ballantyne said.

The trade center attacks presented experts with a monumental problem: some 20,000 pieces of bone and tissue, and a list of about 2,800 missing persons.

And the crucial DNA from Ground Zero was often damaged by fire, heat and water.

To pave the way for matches, experts lifted DNA from personal effects like toothbrushes and razors belonging to the missing people, and derived DNA profiles

from their relatives.

But when the towers fell, there wasn’t any software that could handle the job of matching thousands of those samples to the thousands collected at Ground Zero, said Bob Shaler, the city’s chief of forensic biology.

Then there’s the matter of getting usable DNA data from badly degraded Ground Zero samples in the first place. Shaler said colleagues at the medical examiner’s office perfected a new technique for extracting DNA from decomposing tissue.

Then there is bone. Only about half the 13,000 bone samples processed by Bode Technology Group in Springfield, Va., for Shaler’s office gave DNA results good enough to allow immediate use in identification, said Bode lab director Mitchell Holland.

An additional 25 percent gave only partial results, while the remaining 25 percent yielded no DNA results at all, Holland said.

Usually, less than 10 percent of samples give no result, he said.

So Bode scientists went to work on two fronts. They tried new procedures and new chemicals to extract more DNA from bones, and they started using a new analysis procedure that lets

them analyze DNA fragments only half the size of what they needed before. The shorter chunks are more likely to remain in the fragmented DNA than longer chunks are.

In fact, about half the Ground Zero samples that gave only partial results before are now giving high quality results for use in identification, Holland said. Bode researchers are also trying the technique on samples that gave no results at all. In any case, the use of smaller DNA segments should help in routine forensic work as well, Holland said.

Another company, Orchid BioSciences Inc. of Princeton, N.J., has found success with a different way of getting information from the tiny pieces of damaged DNA from Ground Zero. It is looking at a different trait than standard forensic investigations use, one that can be studied with small hunks.

Human DNA can be thought of as long strings of letters, each representing a chemical in a certain position within the famous double helix. It’s the sequence of these “letters” that defines the DNA code.

At some places along these long sequences, the code seems

to stutter, repeating a short segment again and again. People differ in how many of these repeats they have in various places. Standard forensic analysis counts the number of repeats in 13 different places, plus another spot to determine gender, and the combined result is the DNA profile that can be used for identification.

The Bode researchers do this kind of analysis. The Orchid scientists, in contrast, focus on single letters of the DNA code.

In many places along the DNA, where one person has a given letter, many other people have a different letter. Scientists have analyzed DNA based on this variability for some medical and scientific purposes before.

He estimates the identification effort will run another six to eight months. So far, more than 630 victims have been identified

by DNA alone, out of more than 1,340 total identifications.

Shaler, who founded the city forensic DNA lab in 1990, said the trade center project has given him new respect for the molecule of life. “DNA,” he says, “is a lot hardier than we thought it was.”

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6C Wednesday, September 11, 2002 What Americans say Comments about changes in America since Sept. 11: “People are holding on to their families. In my life, it’s made me look at things differently. I treasure being with my mom and dad, because you may not be with them the next day.”

— Nicholas Moore, 18, Columbia, S.C., warehouse worker.

“People are getting involved.They seem to be more caring toward one another now.”

— Selma Simmons, 42, Miami, Fla., patients’ financial specialist at a hospital, noting community responses to recent child abductions.

“I don’t see any difference. People just go on about their lives, and that’s it. Maybe the government is at war, but I’m not.”

— Arlie Bybee, 75, Pocatello, Idaho.

“Everybody’s talking to everybody now.

Everybody gets along with everybody now.

People dig in their pockets for everybody else. If they didn’t have money, they would still find a way to give.”

— Joshua Lathrop, 20, Fremont, Wis., selfemployed contractor.

“It was a wake-up call, but people didn’t stay awake.They wanted to get close to God, but now they’ve forgotten about it.”

— Helen Adams, 59, Smithton, Mo. “People are becoming more aware of what’s going on.They are more interested in world affairs than they were. Before, we just let other people do it and accepted it and complained.You can’t complain if you don’t participate.”

— Thelma Provencher, 73, Gardner, Mass., retired hospital secretary.

“I hate to say it, but it’s kind of what our country needed — to bring us down to bring us back up.”

— Kelley Beaver, 19, Roanoke Rapids, N.C., college student.

“You notice people getting along more — everybody, neighbors getting along — you go to the supermarket and people get along in there.”

— Jessica Smith, 21, Westville, N.J., convenience store saleswoman.

“What I get tired of hearing about is people blaming things on Sept.

11.The economy is gone bad because of Sept. 11, or we have this problem because of Sept. 11.

Some of these were there already. Sept. 11 might have added to the problem, but don’t blame your life on Sept. 11.”

— Helen O’Meara, 40, Grandview Heights, Ohio, executive director of the Ohio League of Conservation Voters.

“I hate to say a tragedy would make people better, about what they are, who they are and how they think about things, but it makes you think about more than doing your daily thing. It didn’t show us how weak we are, it showed us how strong we are as individuals, and as a people.”

— Holly Zakharenko, 27, Fort Lee, N.J., homemaker.

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Americans adapt to post-attack world

By Jerry Schwartz The Associated Press

At that moment, it seemed as if nothing would ever be the same, that we had all been changed in some essential way.

How could anyone live a normal life in the shadows of thousands of innocents, slaughtered in minutes ... of one colossus obliterated, and then another ... of suicidal hijackers and the specter of more terrorism, suddenly all too real and close by?

But here we are, a year later.

Millions of red-white-and-blue ribbons have come and gone from lapels. People sometimes talk about Sept. 11, but more often the conversation is about Ozzy Osbourne’s family, the stock market doldrums, the summer of child abductions.

What has changed in us is deep but subtle.

“People are looking inward more,” observes Wistar Kane, a 54year-old unemployed accountant in Chadds Ford, Pa. “We’ve had a very basic change in our way of life.”

There are many for whom the sun’s rays are still dimmed by tears. There are some whose lives have been reordered spectacularly — they’ve made career moves or solemnized marriages because of a sudden realization that life is short.

But if America has changed — and it has — most of the changes have been less dramatic. We have adjusted to the horrors of a year ago in ways we may not even notice.

Cynthia Lurie says her life is no different now. But probe a little deeper and she admits, yes, she arrives at airports hours earlier; yes, she jumps at loud noises. She pays more attention to news events, keeps up with terror alerts.

“I guess there have been changes, quite a few changes. I try not to dwell on it. But it’s always there, isn’t it?” says Lurie, 54, of Newport Beach, Calif.

She chatted as she submitted to security screening at John Wayne Airport — perhaps the most obvious difference in our lives since Sept. 11.

Frequent fliers now go to the gate prepared to open their suitcases and shuck their shoes, and most do it without complaint, though some have rejected flying entirely; airlines have reported that traffic dropped 6 percent to 10 percent in July from July 2001.

Some of that can be blamed on a sick economy, but not all. A poll conducted for the AP by ICR/International Communications Research of Media, Pa., found that when asked about several worries including flying and terrorist attacks close to home, 29 percent of Americans were most concerned about flying in commercial airliners.

Second, with 14 percent, was attending a public event with a big crowd.

So at games, theme parks and other public gathering places, backpacks, bags and purses are checked for weapons. “I have no problem letting them look,” said Heidi Wolfrum, 40, of Kingston, Mass., as she entered Disney’s California Adventure. “That’s life now.”

We’re all more watchful, says Jessica Smith, a 21-year-old Westville, N.J., convenience store saleswoman. “Everybody sticks together and watches out for each other. If we see anything, we let the other person know.”

At many office buildings, guards check employee IDs and others with mirrors examine undercarriages of trucks making deliveries.

In some places, trash cans — where bombs might be placed — are scarce.

To judge from surveys, all of

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Rockefeller Center security guard Dave Janeczko checks the underside of a truck for explosives Aug. 15 before allowing it into the delivery entrance of the center in New York. Security personnel check about 350 vehicles that enter the center daily under new rules imposed after the Sept. 11 attacks. these security measures have not made Americans feel secure; the AP poll of 1,001 adults in early August found that 63 percent believed another terrorist strike in the United States was at least somewhat likely.

But the percentage who said such an attack was “very likely” has dropped from 53 percent in October — at the height of the anthrax scare — to 23 percent.

And the level of fear has clearly dropped from those early days, when America seemed to be under siege by the unknown.

On the morning of Sept. 11, Mayor Doc Eldridge of Athens, Ga., got a call: A woman had parked a van full of threateninglooking electronics between two government buildings, and then run away. The police stormed the scene.

As it turned out, the suspected terrorist was a woman scorned — her husband had informed her that day that he was leaving her for a younger woman, so she stole his van. And after parking it, she ran to the bank to clean out their accounts.

For the police, it was all part of reinventing themselves to thwart further terrorism — and deal with the heightened fears of further attacks.

They were assisted by the USA Patriot Act, proposed by President Bush on Sept. 19 and signed on Oct. 26. To fight terrorism, law enforcement agencies were granted broad new powers.

They were allowed to detain aliens who were deemed threats to national security, and hold them without any public acknowledgment (more than a thousand were

arrested). Libraries and bookstores were required to provide the FBI with records of their patrons’ reading habits.

Universities were forced to hand over records of students from some countries.

Have Americans accepted these measures as part of the price they must pay to wage war against a cunning enemy?

Yes and no.

Laura Thompson, 43, an Auburn, N.Y., sales representative, says Sept. 11 awakened in her a sense of patriotism that she — and many of her generation — had never felt.

“I remember most of my life feeling that government could not be trusted and being somewhat embarrassed by the foreign policy that my government practiced,” she says. “Yet, in the wake of Sept.

11, I was enraged, because criticism is one thing and mass murder is another and the acts were totally unjustified.”

A Democrat, she says she strongly supported President Bush. “It was sort of ‘politics be damned, George W. is my president.”’

Rachel Gibson, 28, of San Francisco views the government’s reaction with concern. “The threat of terrorism has always been there. It will always be there. But I worry about the removal of our constitutional rights in the effort to fight terrorism.”

The AP poll found that 63 percent of the respondents were either somewhat or very concerned that the measures enacted to fight terrorism “could end up restricting our individual freedoms.”

Imad Hamad, head of Detroit’s American-Arab AntiDiscrimination Committee, complains that his people are too often singled out. They are detained by law enforcement agents, profiled by airlines, often studied suspiciously by their fellow Americans.

And yet, Hamad says he has reason to be happy.

Younger members of his community, especially those born in this country, have been politicized by the difficulties they have faced, he says. And the hate crimes and threats that made many Arabs prisoners of their own homes last September have abated.

“Definitely, it’s much easier. ...

This heavy burden, this heavy cloud, is more scattered now. The sky is more clear,” he says.

Tempers have cooled, but patriotic ardor has not. More than a half-million immigrants applied for citizenship between Oct. 1, 2001, and May 31 — 65 percent more than in the same period a year before. Some of them almost

certainly wanted to avoid postSept. 11 immigration hassles, but many “wanted to show their pride in this country after Sept. 11,” says Luis Gutierrez, executive director of Latinos Progresando in Chicago.

At the Flag Co. in Acworth, Ga., sales of 12- by 18-inch American flags have increased by more than a million in the past year. Toland Enterprises in Mandeville, La., has added the Stars and Stripes to other seasonal banners, putting an American flag, for example, in the yellow-mittened hands of a snowman.

“I think our country needed sort of a wake-up call to have pride in our country and care for one another,” says Tanya Cooksey, 37, a doctor’s office worker from Broken Arrow, Okla.

“That whole situation has put us back on our toes where we need to be. We have to realize that bad things do happen to good people.”

But the more bellicose patriotism that spread after Sept. 11 seems to have passed. Osama bin Laden toilet paper is not replacing Charmin in America’s bathrooms.

And though Toby Keith’s “Courtesy of the Red, White & Blue” — with its promise to kick al-Qaida derriere — is a country hit, Bruce Springsteen’s more somber work, “The Rising,” sold 526,000 copies in a single week.

One Springsteen song offers the lament of a fireman’s lover: “I need your kiss, but love and duty/called you someplace higher/Somewhere up the stairs, into the fire.”

A year has not dimmed the public’s admiration for New York City’s firefighters and police officers; they cannot pay for a drink, and they’re often greeted with cheers and thumbs up.

And it’s not just New York’s Bravest and Finest. Their brethren across the country report a surge of affection, a recognition of the risks and sacrifices they face every day.

Columbus, Ind., has never lost a police officer or firefighter in the line of duty. But Jordan Meek, a 14-year-old candidate for Eagle Scout, is building a plaza in their honor — 1,000 bricks, each engraved with the name of a uniformed man or woman. It will be dedicated today.

These days, people in Columbus “pay more attention, they’re more friendly,” says Deputy Chief Tom Rebber of the Columbus City Fire Department. “They wave. There’s more of a closeness.”

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More prayer, less consumption among area responses

By Amy Kimmes Wausau Daily Herald akimmes@wdhprint.com

The events that started a year ago today have caused people across north central Wisconsin to take stock of their lives.

Some made minor changes because of it and some major, yet others continue to live today as they did before Sept. 11, 2001.

Changes often were forced upon us. The hijackings prompted tighter security at airports; bioterrorism attacks put mail under new scrutiny; and plummeting stock values reduced retirement savings and led to mass layoffs.

A Merrill family says they live with fears they never had before, pray more and are more cautious about traveling. A Weston family says they’ve become more financially cautious, and a young family in Wausau says they continue to live with a purpose much the way they did before the events of Sept.

11.

“I’m a big prayer buff,” said Bac Nghi To Trong/Wausau Daily Herald Alyice Edrich, 33, of Merrill, who Scott Edrich goes over travel plans with his wife, Alyice, and their children, is raising two children, a 7-yearNico, 11, and MyKaela, 7. The family had plans for an overseas trip next old girl and an 11-year-old boy, summer but is reconsidering after the terrorist attacks of a year ago. with her husband, Scott, 36. “But I

now pray more than I normally would.”

Edrich also said she doesn’t like to let her children go too far afield since the terrorist attacks, and the family has reconsidered a summer 2003 overseas trip.

“Just the idea of going past New York, I’m still intimidated by it,” said Edrich, who lived in Indiana, Pa., last September when one of the hijacked planes crashed in that state. “When I think about going toward the East Coast, I don’t want to take a plane. I’d rather drive there.”

While the Edrich family readjusted traveling plans and turned to prayer, the Xang Xang and Koulap Lee Lee family of Weston took stock of their spending habits.

“We were not as willing to spend or buy big things,” said Xang Lee, 30, coordinator of multicultural affairs at the University of Wisconsin Marathon County.

Koulap Lee works part-time at a clothing store in the Wausau Center mall and attends Northcentral Technical College.

They have two boys, ages 1 and 5.

“You just don’t know what’s going to happen, and as a result of Sept. 11, the market hasn’t been good,” Xang Lee said. “We want to be safe in case someone loses a job.

Anything can happen.”

The New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq and American Stock Exchange went on a four-day hiatus after the atacks. When it reopened on Sept. 17, the Dow Jones industrial average lost 685 points and still has not fully recovered.

Jessica Benton, 29, of Wausau, who works in the scheduling office at NTC, said her family hasn’t changed their lives because of the events of Sept. 11. But they haven’t ignored the situation, either.

“We always try to keep at least a passive awareness of what’s going on worldwide, opposed to only what happens locally and within the community,” said Benton, who is raising a 2-yearold boy with her husband, Robert.

“We still travel, still go out and interact with our friends. We don’t harbor ill will toward others who appear to be of other ethnic backgrounds. We didn’t have a change in patriotism, because we were already patriotic.”

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Criminals’ vacation didn’t last

By David Paulsen Wausau Daily Herald dpaulsen@wdhprint.com

Law enforcement and criminal justice officials remarked last September that crime had dropped dramatically immediately after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

The simplest explanation could have been that people’s attention was diverted from crime to the unfolding events.

“If you check the day immediately following the Kennedy assassination, it was the same thing,” said Wausau Police Chief William Brandimore. “Even the folks that might get themselves in trouble, everybody was glued to their television set to see what was going on with this awful thing in America.”

Despite an apparent drop in Marathon County in police and fire calls and jail bookings, the calm didn’t last long. Within William a few days crime Brandimore was back to normal, Brandimore said. And in the month following Sept. 11, the number of felonies filed in Marathon County Circuit Court doubled from the same month in 2000.

Other officials say they don’t remember any significant change last September. Crime went along as it always has.

And it still does.

Everest Metro police dealt with the property crimes — burglaries, theft, criminal damage — and domestic disputes that fill out their roster of duties.

Still, the atmosphere was different right after Sept. 11, both personally and professionally, said Everest Capt. Scott Sleeter.

“Everybody was in a state of shock or a state of disbelief,” Sleeter said. “It just seemed like everything was quieter.”

Rothschild Police Chief William Schremp remembers the traffic gridlock more than the crime after Sept. 11.

Rothschild officers had their hands full keeping vehicles moving on Business Highway 51 with so many people flocking to the service stations on the village’s main drag in a panic to fill up for a gasoline crisis that never came.

That itself was enough to shock him, he said.

Legal rights changed after attacks

By David Kravets The Associated Press

The government has imposed many new limits on Americans’ legal rights as it fights a war on terror, fundamentally altering the nation’s delicate balance between liberty and security.

The changes — including the authority in terror cases to imprison Americans indefinitely, without charges or defense lawyers — substantially expand the government’s ability to investigate, arrest, try and detain.

They grant law enforcement easier access to Americans’ personal lives while keeping many government operations secret.

And the idea that law-abiding citizens can freely associate with other law-abiding citizens without the threat of government surveillance no longer holds.

The Bush administration will not abuse these far-reaching powers, said Viet Dinh, an assistant U.S. attorney general: “I think security exists for liberty to flourish and liberty cannot exist without order and security,” Dinh said.

Still, even supporters are wary.

“One has to pray that those powers are used responsibly,” said Charlie Intriago, a former federal prosecutor and money laundering expert in Miami who said the new provisions could help intercept terrorists’ finances.

The USA Patriot Act, hurriedly adopted by Congress and signed

by Bush six weeks after the terror attacks, tipped laws in the government’s favor in 350 subject areas involving 40 federal agencies.

The Bush administration has since imposed other legal changes without congressional consent, such as allowing federal agents to monitor attorney-client conversations in federal prisons, and encouraging bureaucrats to deny public access to many documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act. The FBI can monitor political and religious meetings inside the United States now, even when there’s no suspicion a crime has been committed — a policy abandoned in the 1970s amid outrage over J. Edgar Hoover’s surveillance of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other activists.

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Some felt compelled to volunteer From mentoring children to supporting National Guard, locals found ways to contribute

By Amy Kimmes Wausau Daily Herald akimmes@wdhprint.com

Mark Switek of Wausau was raised to believe that everyone should contribute something to society.

For years, the married and childless Switek tinkered with the thought of hooking up with Big Brothers Big Sisters and spending time with an area youngster. For reasons that Switek isn’t clear on, he never acted on his idea.

That changed after terrorists shook America and columnist and peace studies advocate Coleman McCarthy hit the circuit prompting people to find ways to make a difference on the local level.

Switek called Big Brothers Big Sisters in Wausau and by early October was paired with Spencer Hollman, 8, of Wausau.

Switek, 48, is not alone. He is joined by thousands across the nation who have been propelled to volunteer as a result of the events of Sept. 11.

On the local front, Jim Dupuis, 59, of the town of Knowlton, organized a free dinner in late October for nearly 200 Mosinee National Guard members and their families to show appreciation for what they do. The event also was attended by World War II veterans and their families and members of the Mosinee Police and Fire departments.

Across the globe, the Peace Corps reported an increase in applications as a result of the events of Sept. 11, a slumping economy and President Bush’s push to double the number of Peace Corps volunteers over the next five years. There currently are 7,000 volunteers in the Peace Corps.

In the Southwest, Arizona Cardinals strong safety Pat Tillman turned his back on a

three-year contract offer worth $3.6 million to enlist in the U.S. Army, a gig that pays about $18,000 a year. Tillman said his conscience wouldn’t allow him to continue playing football when a real-life enemy needs to be taken down.

As for Switek, who teaches automotive technology at Nicolet Area Technical College in Rhinelander, he decided to channel his energy and dismay over the events of Sept. 11 and the subsequent United States retaliation into something purposeful.

Spending time with Spencer has given him “a whole different perspective on what an 8-yearold’s world is about,” Switek said.

“I hope the growth that I’ve had from this relationship is paralleled by the growth he’s had from the relationship.”

Although Dupuis’ actions were bound by a one-time event, his volunteer efforts are no less important. He was driven to do something for the National Guard because of the seemingly little attention they were getting, he said.

“I thought, like everyone else, ‘Holy smokes, we’re at war,’” said Dupuis, who works for the investment firm Smith Barney.

There was so much going on, and so much money going to New York Fire and Police departments, but “nobody ever thought about the Guard, the ones who protect us if the bad guys come here,” he said.

But there are no statistics to show that local volunteerism took a big leap in the past year.

In fact, the number of people who worked with the Volunteer Center of Marathon County since September 2001 has dropped compared with the year before.

From September 2000 to September 2001, the Volunteer Center worked with 1,385

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Mark Switek and Spencer Hollman examine a mushroom they found during a recent hike at Rib Mountain State Park. Switek became Spencer’s mentor after the Sept. 11 attacks. helpers. In the past year, the number has dropped to 1,114.

The agency’s executive director, Janet Koss, said the decline doesn’t necessarily give an accurate picture of the volunteer situation in the county.

“I don’t want to give people the impression that volunteering is down in the community,” Koss said. “It could be how people are getting connected.”

People who already established themselves with an event or a group, for instance, stay connected to them without the help of the Volunteer Center, she said.

The way the agency collects and compiles numbers also has Wausau Daily Herald file photo changed, Koss said, and should Amy Snyder of Girl Scout Troop 199 was among about 20 area high be taken into account when look- school students and an adult clearing a yard of leaves on South Seventh ing at the numbers.

Avenue on Make A Difference Day last October in Wausau.

Threat of more terror contributes to U.S. anxiety

By Matt Crenson The Associated Press

NEW YORK — A year later, many New Yorkers — even a significant number whose lives were little affected by the Sept. 11 attacks — still struggle with the psychological fallout.

The effects are harder to assess in other parts of the country, where little research has been done since the immediate aftermath of the attacks. But experts believe that the continued threat of terrorism is contributing to anxiety and depression across the nation.

“It’s different for everybody now,” said Marcia Kraft Goin, a psychiatrist at the University of

California, Los Angeles. “It’s continuous.”

Rachel Yehuda, an expert in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder at the Bronx VA Medical Center, said she still receives new patients plagued by memories of Sept 11. Other mental health professionals report ongoing anxiety and depression among their patients over Sept. 11 and terrorism generally.

The problem is especially acute in New York. A survey conducted by the New York Academy of Medicine found one in 10 people here were clinically depressed one or two months after Sept. 11, and 7.5 percent were experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder at

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What does he remember?

“To be frank with you,” he says, “the smell at the site. The camaraderie. The hard, hard work the ironworkers did ....”

He hopes to bring a delegation back to New York for the anniversary: “It might be good for us, for closure for our people.”

The thought has occurred to many. Officials estimate that this year, 3.6 million people will visit the place where the World Trade Center once stood. In shorts and Tshirts, kids in tow, they stop and stare at what is now just an immense hole in the ground.

They want to see history, they say. They want to pay their respects.

For those who cannot make the trip, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s police department has put together a traveling exhibit of artifacts.

Among them: pieces of fuselage from the two planes that hit the trade center; mangled office equipment; twisted street signs.

At the North Way Christian Community Church near Pittsburgh, 8,700 visitors waited as long as four hours to see the exhibit.

So Sept. 11 has not lost its power to fascinate. But has it changed us?

Famously, Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter pronounced on Sept. 12 that the age of irony had ended. He takes it back now: “It does put you off from making broad pronouncements at urgent moments in human history.”

Others insisted that silly fluff

would no longer occupy us. Those same clairvoyants could not have foreseen cable’s “Anna Nicole Show,” in which cameras capture every moment of the pneumatic former model’s day.

Yet the AP poll found that 50 percent believe that the United States has changed for the better by the attacks of Sept. 11; only 15 percent say it has changed for the worse.

“Before, we didn’t hear so much talk about the news. Now, that’s all we talk about and I think it’s for the better,” says Thelma Provencher, 73, a retired hospital secretary from Gardner, Mass. She hadn’t subscribed to a newspaper in years but now gets two. “There’s nothing like having information and being aware.”

And many feel another change: a unification of the country.

“You’d never expect mass destruction of that nature bringing anyone together,” says Mark Burby, 30, a Caribou, Maine, potato worker.

But it did, agrees Holly Zakharenko, 27, a Fort Lee, N.J., homemaker.

“This is something that hit everybody,” she says, “even if they didn’t lose anybody, or lose a job — it hit everybody and they all hit back. It elates you a little bit.”

Perhaps it’s because the dire events of that day rekindled a spirit most Americans had relegated to a Norman Rockwell past — a spirit many thought had been lost for good.

Sept. 11, wrote the editors of the Chillicothe, Ohio, Star in an Aug. 7 editorial, was “the day that America discovered itself — how strong and united a great people can be when confronted with great evil, and put to the ultimate test of survival.”

that time. Extrapolated to the whole city, the survey of 8,000 people suggests that about a million New Yorkers suffered from one or both disorders in the weeks after the attacks.

“These people are actually at greater risk of developing psychological symptoms if something else happens,” said Sandro Galea, an epidemiologist at the academy’s Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies.

By February, the number of people with clinical depression or post-traumatic stress disorder had dropped by one-half to two-thirds, still higher than epidemiologists would normally expect in a city as big as New York. One person in

three continued to report at least some symptoms of depression or post-traumatic disorder, even if they did not fit the criteria for the illness itself.

Mothers of young children are especially anxious about the prospect of future terrorist attacks, said New York psychiatrist Julie Holland. They worry most about who will take care of their children if they die.

The children suffer, too.

Columbia University epidemiologist Christina Hoven has been studying schoolchildren in New York City to see if they have lasting emotional problems related to the attacks. Her results indicate that children from all over the city,

not just in the immediate Ground Zero area, are suffering.

Beyond New York, adults and children around the world saw graphic television footage of airplanes smashing into buildings, burning towers collapsing into rubble and people leaping to their deaths to escape the flames.

“People saw it over and over and over again,” Goin said. “That added to the sense of trauma.”

There is debate about whether televised images themselves can trigger post-traumatic stress disorder and other illnesses. Hoven said she heard reports of children as far away as Chile being troubled by the attacks.

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‘9/11’ ingrained in nation’s vocabulary

By Jessica Bock Wausau Daily Herald jbock@wdhprint.com

New vocabulary post-Sept. 11

Mention Watergate or Monica The Associated Press Lewinsky and almost any Some words and phrases that American will know what you’re became part of Americans’ day-totalking about. day vocabulary after Sept. 11: The phrase “September 11” will ■ Anthrax: Infectious bacterial get the same recognition for disease of sheep and cattle transdecades to come. Likewise, spinoffs missible to humans. Pulmonary “9/11” (pronounced nine-eleven) anthrax, caused by inhalation of and “9-1-1” (nine-one-one) have the bacteria, killed five Americans become instantly linked with the via anthrax-laced letters in the day hijackers crashed planes into months after Sept. 11. It has not the twin towers of the World been determined who was behind Trade Center in New York and the the mailings.

Pentagon, killing thousands of ■ Axis of evil: Refers to Iran, people and terrorizing America.

Iraq and North Korea, according to How did America silently agree President Bush, who accused on a term for Sept. 11? Why, when those countries of supporting teryou say “9/11,” do your friends rorism against other nations and automatically know you’re talking trying to develop nuclear, chemical about the attacks? Why don’t we and biological weapons. Bush first similarly recognize the phrase used the phrase in his State of the “12/7” to refer to the attack on Union address in January.

Pearl Harbor, or “4/19” for the ■ Bioterrorism: The use of bioOklahoma City bombing in 1995? logical agents such as anthrax or Perhaps it’s because the impact of Sept. 11 reached into every airport, every business and every home in the United States. It was wide.

“One reason that the date might more than one attack in a distant part of the country; it was a series stick is that the events of that day of attacks that were felt nation- were so various,” said Andrew

smallpox to induce panic, disease or death.

■ Burqa: A women’s garment covering almost the entire body, with only a small mesh opening for the eyes. Required by the Taliban for most women outside the home.

Also called chadri.

■ Cell: A small, semi-independent group within a terrorist organization.

Investigations into the Sept. 11 attacks identified cells in Hamburg, Germany, and Madrid, Spain.

■ Daisy cutter: Nickname for the BLU-82 bomb, which at 15,000 pounds is billed as the world’s largest conventional bomb. Used

by U.S. military in Afghanistan. The size of a small car, it costs an estimated $27,000.

■ Dirty bomb: A device to spread radioactive material, causing widespread fear. Consequences more psycho-social than medical.

Not to be confused with a nuclear bomb, with its devastating fission explosion.

■ Evildoers: Popularized by Bush soon after Sept. 11: “We will rid the world of evildoers.”

■ Fatwa: A ruling on a point of Islamic law issued by an Islamic religious expert.

■ Ground zero: Used to describe the World Trade Center site after the attacks. Originally a military term used to describe the point where a nuclear bomb explodes.

■ Homeland defense: Defense of U.S. soil. Sept. 11 marked the first such serious concerns since Pearl Harbor.

■ Jihad: In Islam, warfare within oneself against evil or temptation; also, defense of Islam. From the Arabic to strive or exert effort.

■ “Let’s roll”: Uttered by pas-

Sihler, professor emeritus of lin- attacks because it was more than guistics at the University of that.

Wisconsin-Madison. “You can’t just “It evokes a whole collection of say the World Trade Center things rather than picking one or

The arts world both confronts, avoids attacks

By Hillel Italie The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Jessica Hagedorn, a fiction writer, expects her next novel to feature a mother, a child and a detective in presentday New York City. What worries her is how, or if, she should weave in the events of Sept. 11.

“You can’t sort of dance around it, but I don’t want to make a thing of it, either,” says Hagedorn, author of “Dogeaters” and several other books. “It’s so recent and still so deep and bewildering. I feel there isn’t enough distance yet, and I’m leery of anyone who would want to try.”

Neil LaBute, a playwright and filmmaker, is ready to try right now. His new play, “The Mercy Seat,” has a theme as old as civilization — adultery — but a setting quite near in our memories — New York, the day after the terrorist attacks.

“It’s the kind of relationship drama that I have investigated in other writing, but the kind of moral choices they are making in their relationship and in their lives is influenced because of that day,” says LaBute, whose works include the play “The Shape of Things” and the film “Possession.”

A year after the terrorists struck, artists are finding the attacks both unavoidable and unmentionable, too great to ignore for some and too great to contain for others.

“They shadow everything,” Hagedorn says.

Hollywood, which delayed “Collateral Damage” — about a firefighter seeking revenge for a terrorist bombing — and other movies last fall, remains reluctant to take on Sept. 11. Some filmmakers hesitate even to bring it up.

“There may be proposals circulating about Sept. 11, but I don’t think anyone is quite prepared to make a statement on a dramatic level,” says Robert Dowling, editorin-chief and publisher of The Hollywood Reporter, an industry trade journal.

For “Analyze That,” Harold Ramis’ sequel to his 1999 mob comedy, “Analyze This,” the director tried making a couple of “oblique references” to Sept. 11, and none of the producers felt comfortable with it, he said.

Ramis says he wrote a line noting that organized crime had become a low priority for the FBI, a reference to the bureau’s new anti-terrorism mission, and another line about structural damage to a lower Manhattan building

caused by a mob hijacking. The producers rejected both ideas.

“No one wanted to refer to structural damage to anything downtown,” Ramis says. “The feeling was, ‘Why reference it at all?”’

Television networks have mostly stuck to straight news coverage, but a handful of narrative dramas are planned. ABC has a movie, “Report From Ground Zero,” that was scheduled to air Tuesday night, telling the story of the first firefighters to arrive at the World Trade Center. Early next year, Jeff Goldblum will star as a combat correspondent in NBC’s “War Stories,” in which, the network says, “The war on terrorism gets front-page coverage.”

“We were able to set the story overseas (in Uzbekistan), but I don’t think we could have done a movie about the World Trade Center towers. It’s still a little too soon,” says Chris Conti, a senior vice president of drama development at NBC. Songwriters, though, have addressed the attacks from the start, and the commitment is deepening. Tributes such as Neil Young’s “Let’s Roll” and Paul McCartney’s “Freedom” came out last fall, along with the militantly patriotic “Courtesy of the Red, White & Blue (The Angry American),” by Toby Keith.

Enough time has passed for recent works to become more intimate and reflective. Steve Earle’s “John Walker’s Blues” is a ballad about John Walker Lindh, the American who recently pleaded guilty to fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan. With Arabic chants in the background, Earle sings of Lindh as “an American boy raised on MTV” and driven to a distant culture.

Nashville radio personality Steve Gill has accused Earle of trying “to be outrageous to attract attention.” In publicity materials to promote the September release of the “Jerusalem” album, which includes the Walker song, Earle discusses his motivation.

“I’m trying to make clear that wherever he (Lindh) got to, he didn’t arrive there in a vacuum,” Earle said. “I don’t condone what he did. ... My son Justin is almost exactly Walker’s age.”

Bruce Springsteen’s new album, “The Rising,” presents a series of character studies reflecting the personal consequences of Sept. 11.

In “Paradise,” he writes from the perspective of a suicide bomber: “In the crowded marketplace, I drift from face to face

Songs range from outrage to courage

By Peter Cooper and A.Tacuma Roeback Gannett News Service

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Novelist Jessica Hagedorn poses Aug. 12 on Pier 40 along the Hudson River in New York. Hagedorn, author of “Dogeaters,” is among a number of writers and artists who are undecided about how they will deal with the Sept. 11 attacks in future works.

I hold my breath and close my upcoming story collection, “Things eyes You Should Know.”

And I wait for paradise” “We are capable of being heroic.

We are all capable of taking care For fiction writers, Sept. 11 is of each other, but we tend not to do also evolving from topical refer- it unless absolutely pressed.” ence to emotional subtext. New Homes, playwright John Guare novels by E. Lynn Harris, Pete and poet Richard Howard are Hamill and Nick Tosches mention among the 110 New York-based the attacks, but within books contributors to “110 Stories,” a litlargely written before. erary anthology coming out this Now, writers must begin in a fall from New York University world where Sept. 11 always exist- Press. The project pays tribute to ed. Sandra Cisneros, author of the the number of stories in the fallen story collection “Woman Hollering towers.

Creek” and the novel “Carmelo,” The book’s editor, Ulrich Baer, says she is interested in stories says that some authors had diffifeaturing Muslims. culty writing and that at least one “I want to write them precisely ended up not participating — because of this fear of Muslim peo- Marie Ponsot, an award-winning ple,” Cisneros says. “I feel like I poet best known for her collection, have to write about them and “The Bird Catcher.” make them human.”

“I wrote her a letter outlining Author A.M. Homes is a what we were doing and she sent Manhattan resident who from her me back a card that said, ‘Thank apartment window saw the World you so much for your invitation Trade Center towers in flames. and I will try to write something She has started writing a novel for it,”’ explains Baer, a professor she had in mind before the attacks of German and comparative literabut with a theme that has greatly ture at NYU. intensified.

“Two weeks after that, I called “I was really interested in her at home and we talked for a heroes and the fact that we’re liv- while. And she said, ‘I have the ing in a world where our heroes beginning of the poem, I have the are mostly movie stars,” says end, but I don’t have the middle!

Homes, whose books include the Give me five years and I can give novel “The End of Alice” and the you a poem.”’

Booksellers search for balance in rush of 9/11 titles

By Hillel Italie The Associated Press

NEW YORK — A year after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, bookstores across the country will mark the anniversary with readings, vigils and other events.

They will also be selling books.

“You walk a fine line,” says Ann Binkley, a spokeswoman for the superstore chain Borders Group, Inc., which had an outlet in the World Trade Center.

“We do believe it’s appropriate to feature related titles and make it easy for customers to educate

themselves about 9-11. What you try to do is find a balance between offering what is out there without trying to exploit it.”

More than 100 related works are due this fall and virtually all booksellers, Borders included, have tables set aside. Among those expected to sell best are “Longitudes and Attitudes,” with a first printing of 175,000 and featuring the essays by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman that won him the Pulitzer Prize, and “Leadership,” by former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Miramax is giving “Leadership,” which includes

Liss, an assistant professor in the department of communication and theatre arts at UW Marathon County. senger Todd Beamer aboard the “Sept. 11 or 9-11 now functions hijacked plane that crashed in rural as an idiom — a symbolic means Pennsylvania. Beamer was apparof capturing both the horrifying ently signaling fellow passengers and heroic images of what to seize control of the plane from occurred on this day,” Liss said. the terrorists.

In this sense, people have ■ 9/11: Shorthand for the agreed on the shared meaning for attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. this idiom in a way that all ■ Regime change: Overthrow Americans can recognize, he said. of a government. Occurred when And among emergency personthe United States and its allies nel, using the term 9-1-1 to refer forced the Taliban out of to that date seems to be more comAfghanistan. mon, said Merrill Fire Chief Norm ■ Taliban: Afghanistan’s ultraHanson. conservative Islamic militia.

That might be because the Emerged in the mid-1990s; essenattacks happened on a date, cointially overthrown in the U.S. war on cidentally, with the same numbers terrorism. used to call in an emergency, he ■ Wanding: Using a wand to said. detect traces of explosives; used in “Right away, that strikes you as airports since the attacks. ironic or unusual,” Hanson said.

■ Weaponize: Turn biological Using the date is appropriate agents such as anthrax or smallbecause Sept. 11 represented a pox into a weapon. turning point for Americans and safety, said Ian Lehman, 21, of Wausau. the other.”

“The date sticks in your head,” The meaning of that date, and he said. “It’s probably the most those numbers, has been perma- infamous date ... at least in my nently transformed, said Barry lifetime.”

Giuliani’s memories of his response to the attacks, a printing of 500,000.

Other releases include self-help works such as “Chicken Soup for the Soul of America,” photograph books such as “Here Is New York” and literary anthologies like “110 Stories,” which includes contributions from Paul Auster, A.M. Homes and others. The Newseum, an interactive museum of news, documents media coverage in “Running Toward Danger,” which features interviews with print and television journalists and a forward by NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw.

There also are memoirs (“Strong of Heart,” by former New York City Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen) analyses of intelligence operations (“The Cell”), and children’s titles, environmental studies, philosophy books and works about the American flag and quilts inspired by Sept. 11.

Doubleday is publishing “Sept.

11: An Oral History,” which includes remembrances of Pentagon and trade center employees. Doubleday president Stephen Rubin says the book is an invaluable document of how “ordinary people” experienced the attacks.

Christian and gospel artists, including Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, CeCe Winans, dc Talk and Steven Curtis Chapman, recorded this Wayne Kirkpatrick/Mark Heimermann-written tribute for the Gospel Music Association’s “official coming together of the industry” in Sept. 11’s wake.

■ “There She Stands,” recorded by Michael W. Smith. This new single from Christian industry heavyweight Smith was recently performed for President Bush. The lyrics reference the American flag: “When evil calls itself a martyr/ When all your hopes come crashing down/ Someone will pull her from the rubble/ There she stands.”

■ “Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly,” recorded by Aaron Tippin. Written before Sept. 11, this became a hit for Tippin upon its September release.

■ “Only In America,” recorded

by Brooks & Dunn. Already released as a single by Sept. 11, it took Don King’s long-repeated motto to new heights.

■ “This Ain’t No Rag, It’s A Flag,” recorded by Charlie Daniels. Controversy is nothing new to Charlie Daniels, and plenty of country radio stations were turned off by lyrics some saw as thinly veiled racism (“This ain’t no

American popular music has often provided a means of expressing reactions to world events.

The Titanic’s watery end was either a tragedy (in Ernest V. “Pop” Stoneman’s “The Sinking of the Titanic”), a case of God’s vengeance on rich and pseudolordly Caucasians (Pink Anderson’s “The Titanic”) or the foregone conclusion of a love affair between a boat and an iceberg (David Olney’s “Titanic”).

The hawks vs. doves controversies and civil rights movement of the 1960s and ’70s were either cause for concern (Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On”; Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s “Ohio”; Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind”) or cause for unwavering patriotism (Merle Haggard’s “The Fightin’ Side Of Me”).

Similarly, the Sept. 11 tragedy inspired recordings that varied in tone from Toby Keith’s militaristic outrage to Bruce Springsteen’s ruminative, spiritual calls for hope, strength and peace.

The following is a sampling of the music that followed the horror: ■ “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning),” recorded by Alan Jackson. This country star’s song was taken by most as a heartfelt exploration of the internal struggles caused by the events of Sept. 11, although it caught some criticism for its overt mentions of Christianity and for Jackson’s assertion that he doesn’t “know the difference between Iraq and Iran.”

Jackson performed the song on several awards shows (including the Grammy Awards), and its popularity helped his “Drive” album to the top of the country and pop charts.

■ “Rule,” recorded

by Nas, featuring Amerie. Here, the prodigious Queens, AP photo N.Y., lyricist makes Country singer Toby Keith performs his song plain his stance on “Courtesy of the Red White and Blue (The Angry Operation Enduring American)” on June 12 in Nashville. Keith’s song Freedom over a take- was one of several in the country music field to off from the Tears for come out as a response to the Sept. 11 attacks.

Fears song “Everybody Wants to Rule the rag, it’s a flag/And we don’t wear it World”: “No war, we should take on our head”). Others rallied time and think/The bombs and behind Daniels’ angry message. tanks makes mankind extinct.”

■ “The Spirit of America,” ■ “Courtesy of the Red, recorded

by Daniel Rodriguez.

White and Blue (The Angry American),” recorded by Toby This NYPD cop rose to promiKeith. Full of bombastic threats nence after singing numerous (‘We’ll put a boot in your a--, it’s times on national television, the American Way’) to the Taliban, including at the 2001 World this song landed Keith in the No. 1 Series. This album contains his position on Billboard’s pop and versions of 12 patriotic, spiritual country charts. “Courtesy” origi- and religious songs.

■ “What’s Going On,” recorded nally was written as a rallying cry for American troops, but it later by various artists. This song was recorded just days before Sept. 11 caught on at country radio.

■ “The Rising,” an album to raise awareness of the AIDS epirecorded by Bruce Springsteen. demic in Africa. But after that fateRather than write and record ful day, organizers donated half of immediate reactions to Sept. 11, the song’s proceeds to the United the Boss waited to come up with Way’s September 11 Fund. The this recently released gem. Some song was a reprise of Marvin of the material — “Into the Fire,” Gaye’s seminal protest song, and for instance — deals explicitly features a constellation of pop with the events of that day, but stars, including Britney Spears, Lil’ Springsteen has taken care to Kim, Nelly and U2’s Bono.

■ “God Bless the U.S.A.,” write songs that are artistic and multilayered enough to survive recorded by Jump5. The Christian any charges of mere sonic journal- vocal group’s version of the Lee Greenwood anthem was played ism.

■ “In God We Trust,” recorded often on youth-oriented Radio by various artists. Numerous Disney.

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By Jessica Bock Wausau Daily Herald jbock@wdhprint.com

Remembrance and reflection will be the themes for many messages at Sept. 11 commemorative services today.

When many people think of the terrorist attacks, they remember feeling very uncertain, said the Rev. Dennis Pegorsch at Trinity Lutheran Church, 501 Stewart Ave. in Wausau.

His message for the church’s Sept. 11 service will remind listeners that even with the uncertainty the past year has brought, there’s a sense of strength and assurance with the Lord.

Like Pegorsch’s congregation, hundreds of area residents will go to their local churches today seeking messages and music to mark the anniversary of Sept. 11.

This year, services will be different because many people have had the chance to hear and read insights and firsthand accounts of those directly affected by the terrorist attacks in the past year.

“Hopefully after a year’s passed,

“Hopefully after a year’s passed, people realize that each day is very uncertain and none of us have all the answers to life.”

— The Rev. Dennis Pegorsch,Trinity Lutheran Church in Wausau people realize that each day is very uncertain and none of us have all the answers to life,” Pegorsch said.

Sept. 11 was a wake-up call to our nation in more ways than one, his message will say.

While the government realized it had many issues with security after that day, citizens also learned that the basis of strength is not in a building like the World Trade Center or material wealth, Pegorsch said.

It’s in people and in God, he said.

“People need a relationship with God and with each other,” he said.

“Life, hope and courage come from that.”

At the First Hmong Missionary Alliance Church, 5500 Stettin Drive, the focus will be on prayer.

It was hard to understand the killing of many innocent people with planes on Sept. 11, said the Rev. Yong Vang Yang.

“We’ll be praying for them, the innocent people, and also for those people still not found,” he said.

One church that is not holding a special service today is St. Anthony’s Catholic Church in Athens. The Rev. Charles Hiebl said his congregation has not expressed interest in gathering to commemorate the day.

“Sept. 11 has saturated us,” Hiebl said. “The coverage has been blown out of proportion.”

Constant attention has been paid to those who suffered because of the terrorist attacks and not enough attention is focused on people who are sufferBac Nghi To Trong/Wausau Daily Herald ing right here in the Midwest, he The Rev. Keith Haldeman speaks to the congregation at Trinity Lutheran Church in Wausau on Sept. 1. said.

A Trade Center survivor, and two families left with huge holes in their lives

Trip down 87 floors was nightmare, left demons to deal with Editor’s note: Adam Mayblum was working for the May Davis Group investment firm on the 87th floor of the World Trade Center’s north tower when the first plane hit.

He escaped down a stairwell with a wet piece of his T-shirt tied around his face. The day after the attacks, he thought it would help to put thoughts into words and let loved ones know he was safe, so he wrote an e-mail to friends and family. Soon the message was being forwarded around the world, and Mayblum received thousands of responses from people he’d never met. Here, Mayblum, 36, of New Rochelle, N.Y., shares his thoughts a year after the attacks.

By Adam Mayblum For The Associated Press

Perhaps the soldiers in the barracks in Lebanon or the heroes of the Normandy landings know what “it” is like. But, then again, they were professionals. They knew that they were in harm’s way 24/7. We were professionals of a different sort. Lawyers. Bankers.

Brokers. Traders. Waiters.

I was having my daily iced coffee. Light with skim and two Equals. Then “it” arrived. Hell on Earth. It was an hour-and-a-half climb down 87 crowded, hot, and smoky flights. It was fires and sparks and doors that wouldn’t open. It was stepping over twisted steel and God knows what else. It was losing dear friends.

I look back at the attack as a whole event unto itself. Not the

thousands of little occurrences along the way. The attack and its consequences are of such a magnitude that I still cannot fully absorb it. I think I am better off that way.

I do, however, have some demons to deal with. There are those two events that won’t go away. I remember seeing my friend Harry Ramos helping people out of one stairwell while I was helping them into another. What would I have done if I knew then that it was the last time I would see him? Would he have done it anyway if he knew he wasn’t going to make it home that night? Did he know that he was crossing that fine line between bravery and death? Did he even think about it?

I doubt it. None of us did. But in hindsight, I get to ask these questions and he doesn’t.

And then there was the third floor. Almost out. Almost home. I can almost smell the fresh air. And then there was that rumbling.

That low vibration I could feel in my bones, followed by this inconceivable shaking. Then the lights went out. Pitch black except for some glow-in-the-dark paint and a flashlight.

It was, in reality, 2 WTC collapsing. However, in my world, at that very moment, I was sure it was my stairwell collapsing down upon me under the weight of thousands of people. I was going to die. All I could do was shrug my shoulders, look up at the stairs above, and wait for the

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Adam Mayblum looks out at the World Trade Center site in New York on Dec. 19. Mayblum, working for the May Davis Group investment firm on the 87th floor of the World Trade Center’s north tower last Sept. 11, escaped down a stairwell with a wet piece of his T-shirt tied around his face. pain. Then it passed. A miracle, I thought. It turns out that my miracle was also the death of over a thousand people. Almost a year later, I cannot hear (feel) a train roll by without a flashback to that moment.

I have been told that sometimes a person learns things that cannot be unlearned. I have learned that I am not safe anywhere or at any time. After all, who would have thought that the opening salvo in a war would be a 737 slamming into their office during breakfast?

This knowledge has changed me forever. I don’t step out into traffic any more. I drive slower. More cautious. I guess this will fade with time, as most things seem to.

On the other hand, I am more focused and driven than ever. I even learned to ski.

I just started working at a new firm. I am now the managing director of The Private Equities Group of Joseph Stevens and Co. It’s downtown. Just a few blocks

from Ground Zero. I am not afraid to be there. I will not be chased from there. It is my statement to the terrorists. I work in The Financial Capital of The World.

You have not destroyed us.

If I had my way, I would rebuild the trade center as it was, if not taller. What better fitting memorial is there to those who perished that day? My friends were proud to work there.

They were the embodiment of capitalism and America. From the traders to the waiters, we all knew that we were part of something special.

Life goes on. My wife and I are expecting another child in late October. Why? Because now we live a little more for today than tomorrow. Because we can’t let the bad guys win. Because we love each other. Because people we knew can’t. Because when I hold my son, Ethan, nothing else matters and I want more of that feeling in my life.

‘How could I forget your curiosity, energy?’

Editor’s note: Peter Hanson, his wife, Sue Jue Kim-Hanson, and their 2-year-old daughter, Christine, all of Groton, Mass., died on United Airlines Flight 175 when it crashed into the World Trade Center. Peter Hanson, 32, vice president for sales at TimeTrade, used his cell phone to call his parents moments before the plane hit the second tower. After her death, Sue Kim Hanson, 35, was awarded the post-doctoral degree in pathology and immunology she was working toward at Boston University; BU has established an annual lecture to be held on Sept. 11 in her honor. Peter’s parents, Eunice and Lee Hanson, live in Easton, Conn. Here, Eunice Hanson shares some thoughts in the form of a letter to her son.

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A memorial to the Groton, Mass., family of Peter, Sue and Christine Hanson is seen outside the Groton Public Library on Sept. 3. The town of Groton planned a candlelight vigil for Tuesday evening to remember the family and other Sept. 11 victims.

Dear Peter: Nine years ago we were happily preparing for your wedding to Sue. Today, your Dad and I are discussing the one-year memorial observance of the deaths of you, Sue and little Christine Lee on Sept. 11.

You and 3,000 others were slaughtered, and now we have been asked to describe our feelings.

You and Sue and Christine are always in our thoughts and hearts ... we miss you so much.

Peter, I still feel the terrible pain that went through my whole being when Dad, holding the phone, heard your last words. As the plane banked and crashed into that tower and exploded in a burst

of flame I screamed, for I knew that all the joys we had together, all the care and good times, all the dreams and hopes, were ended.

The thought of the three of you in each other’s arms in that final moment will never leave me. They tell me that there could not have been any pain, but you knew what was happening. How could those murderers have looked at the innocent people on the plane, at little Christine, and so cruelly kill?

How could their leaders, hidden and protected in a far-off land, laugh and joke about their lack of humanity?

I want them brought to justice, but my feelings are about you.

How can I ever forget you? Why would I want to forget you? How

By Eunice Hanson

could I forget your curiosity and energy? Or your teens, when you would quietly come into my bedroom and ask if I would talk with you? You would pour out your experiences of life, not looking for answers, only wanting to talk. And your dreadlocks which, after you met Sue, you cut off and brought home to me? The Grateful Dead, whose music you loved so much that you convinced your Dad and me to attend some concerts to share the experience.

You moved to Boston to attend university, embraced the city and then met Sue. I remember your calling me from Boston, asking me to help you pick out an engagement ring for her. I remember how

you encouraged Sue to go for her Ph.D. in immunology. We loved her so much.

And Christine Lee was and is love personified. The world had no limits for her; she was truly her mom and dad’s daughter. To this day, I still expect the phone to ring and hear her voice telling me about her day at school, always closing with, “I love you Namma.”

Before that last trip, she told me she was going to California to see her great-grandmother and to see Mickey Mouse and Pluto. And then she said, “I want to go to your house, Namma,” and I told her we would see her when she returned.

Peter, people have been kind.

Our church and community in Easton; the people of Groton, Mass.; Boston University; the political community; firemen; police; people in the Army; the press; everyone has been so good.

And you know, the memorial dedicated to you and Sue and Christine in Groton is so meaningful and the elegy written by Carl Schroeder, “Christine’s Lullaby,” is so beautiful.

I am sure that you were smiling when Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead called us and dedicated a concert of his new group to you.

You all had so many friends, for you and Sue were good friends to so many. Your love was steadfast.

We still need your love and the happy memories of you and Sue and Christine. But oh, how I miss you.

Love, Mom

Editor’s note: Jeffrey W. Coombs died on American Airlines Flight 11 when it crashed into the World Trade Center. Coombs, 42, was a security analyst for Compaq Computer Corp.

He lived in Abington, Mass., with his wife, Christie, and their children — Matthew, who was 13 when his father died, Meaghan, 11, and Julia, 7. Coombs was a coach in Abington’s youth soccer league. After he died, some league officials wanted to postpone games out of respect.

But Christie Coombs insisted the games go on, for the sake of her children and getting back to some sort of normalcy. Here, she shares some thoughts of her husband and their life together.

By Christie Coombs For The Associated Press

Often times when I lie awake late at night, I think about life before Sept. 11 when “normal” was easy to explain, when laughter and fun were common and guiltfree, and when loneliness was a feeling from the past. Life since then has taken on a different tone, altering the way we live, the way we love, the things we think about, and how we plan our future. What remains consistent in our house since that horrible day is the love we have for Jeffrey and now the incredible void that has been forced upon our young family.

Twenty-three years ago Jeffrey and I met as college students in Arizona. Although there were many differences between us, we found common ground in our love for each other, commitment to family, an understanding of the give-and-take, and our desire to spend our lives together.

He became a loving and devoted husband and father to our three children, Matthew, Meaghan and Julia. He parented with a sense of humor and a real grasp of the enormous responsibility he had undertaken. He was very much a big kid when it came to interacting with his family. He was truly in his element when he was wrestling with the kids, rollerblading with them in the neighborhood, hiking Blue Hills, playing hoops in the driveway, or boating and tubing on the Cape.

One question often asked of us is, “How has life changed in the last year?” Quite simply, everything has changed. There is far less laughter in the house, because he was not only the funny one, but he provided the entertainment.

Although he disciplined when necessary, he was the one to invent the fun. The ever-popular game “push Daddy off the couch” is now but a fond yet painful memory for children too young to be thrust into the core of a national tragedy.

His silly laugh seems to linger in the halls of our home, enabling us to remember the happier times when sadness and the feeling of loss attempt to overcome our family. His smile has been imprinted on our brains, helping to guide us through each day where the reminders of the horrific mass murder are ever-present in the daily newspapers, TV news, magazines, bumper stickers, T-shirts, and billboards. Everywhere we turn, Sept. 11 and visions of the burning building come alive.

Sept. 11 took away my children’s security; their ability to trust when we as adults tell them we’re going to be there for them; their innocent outlook on life. It gave them one less person to express the pride in their accomplishments that only a parent can feel.

From me it took away my lifelong companion, the love of my life, my soulmate. It has caused me to dread the future, rather than anticipate it. It has put an indescribable level of loneliness into every moment of my life. Now I end each day with a letter to my husband in my journal rather than with a meaningful one-onone conversation with the man I’ve loved for more than half my life.

And that day has caused me to wonder on a daily basis whether the last moments of my husband’s life were calm or filled with fear and despair. It has left me wondering if we’ll ever find the element of peace that some say comes with recovery of his remains. It has put me in the midst of a never-ending struggle between the need to move forward and the intense longing to go back. It has left us with a hole in our hearts so significant that it will never heal.

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The family of Jeffrey Coombs, who died on American Airlines Flight 11 when it crashed into the World Trade Center, pose on Aug. 9 in front of their home in Abington, Mass. Seated are Matthew, 14, Meaghan, 12, and Christine, 42. Behind holding the family dog, Nikki, is Julia, 8.

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By Keith Uhlig Wausau Daily Herald kuhlig@wdhprint.com

When terrorists slammed jet airliners into the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and hijacked a fourth that crashed in rural Pennsylvania, the course of history changed.

This fall, as history and political science teachers present their curriculums for the school year, their classes will reflect that change. The Middle East, Islam and the history of

terrorism will come under increased study and scrutiny now more than ever before, say university professors and high school teachers.

“Terrorism became a more important subject in our teaching,” said Jianwei Wang, professor of political science and chairman of his department at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.

Sept. 11 also galvanized students’ interest in history, naturally making it easier for teachers to make their subjects relevant and interesting.

“Of course it makes history more relevant,” said Susan Luoma, a history teacher at Wausau East High School. “Several students had relatives or friends in New York. It wasn’t something that happened a half a country away. This is a very real thing for them.”

Teachers say it’s their job to put Sept. 11 in context, to help their students understand why it was a world-changing event and what sort of events happened to lead up to the attacks.

Scott Miles, a world history

teacher at Wausau West High School, said teachers there taught a Middle East unit for years, usually around March and April.

That course creates the background of Angela Islam and Judaism Burger to look at Sept. 11 “in its historical roots.”

In her American Government course, Angela Burger, a political science professor at the University of

Wisconsin Marathon County, will examine how things have changed in this country since the terrorist attacks.

“I talk about civil liberties, so students understand what the differences are now and from before the attack,” she said.

For example, prosecutors are allowed to listen in on conversations between lawyers and clients, once thought beyond the bounds of acceptable, she said.

Her course in International Politics examines the goals of ter-

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Youths discuss hopes, fears

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By Martha Irvine The Associated Press

America’s youths will deal with the effects of the Sept. 11 attacks longer than any other generation — a fact that prompted The Associated Press to ask a diverse group of young people their thoughts one year later.

Some said they are still afraid.

Others are determined to defy fear.

Leah Isquith, a 15-year-old girl from Seattle and the youngest of eight children, talked about family.

She said phone calls from her siblings comforted her after the attacks.

Ivan Amir, a 17-year-old boy from Beltsville, Md., of Pakistani and Colombian descent, noted how the attacks brought people together. But he also encountered hatred, including a stranger who spit in his face and yelled racial slurs on Sept. 11.

Still, despite the tragedy, many — even Ivan — also talked about hope.

Here’s what they had to say: Question: Have the events of Sept. 11 changed the everyday workings of your life? If so, how? If not, why not?

From Ivan Amir: This is easily the most significant impact any event has had on my life. I live day to day honestly trying to understand every person I meet and making sure they understand me.

For me, this is now a critical aspect of life.

From Leah Isquith: I have learned to appreciate my family and my community much more, because I realize they are precious and could be taken from me.

From Kendra Kehl-Fie, a 19year-old freshman at Smith College in Northampton, Mass., who plans to study religion: I refuse to change how I live because some people want me to be scared of them, and what they might do. If I were to live in fear, then they would have won.

Question: How has your world view changed since the World Trade Center was hit? Are you different in any way?

Devin: I worry that the next building they will try to hit is the Sears Tower because it’s the tallest building in the U.S. My dad lives in Chicago and I worry that he could be around there when it gets hit and he might get hurt.

But my goals haven’t changed. I still want to be a professional soccer player.

Leah: I do not really feel more fearful or pessimistic about what will happen in the future because I don’t think that will help the situation; being positive and strong is really the most supportive thing that we can do to get through this difficult time.

From Sameer Syed, a 17-yearold from West Windsor, N.J., who describes himself as a “Pakistani American-Muslim”: Since the attacks took place, I am more fearful, but at the same time I have faith and know Muslims and nonMuslims will work together and make the world a safer place.

rorist groups and discusses whether terrorism is a stage of warfare, she said.

Whatever changes teachers make, they’ll most likely have few problems keeping students’ attention when they discuss the attacks and what provoked them.What once was thought of as a problem that happened half a world away now is seen as more urgent and relevant to life here in the United States.

“It brought it home,” said Ed Miller, a professor of political science at UW-Stevens Point.

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Richard Calderon holds up an American flag during a moment of silence at Yankee Stadium before the start of a baseball game Sept. 25 in New York. It was the first game in New York for the Yankees since the terrorist attacks. Sports, the diversion the nation takes so seriously, seemed trivial compared with the tragedy that befell the nation and the challenges that lied ahead. But the games resumed. What seemed inconsequential in the direct aftermath started to offer comfort to fans.

Sports took on patriotic fervor

By Eddie Pells The Associated Press

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden liked “Let’s Roll” so much, he made it his team’s slogan for 2002.

The gesture, Bowden figured, was the perfect tribute to Todd Beamer, who uttered those words from a phone aboard hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 on Sept. 11.

Beamer and his companions on the flight are generally believed to have confronted the terrorists and saved hundreds of lives by not allowing that airplane to reach its intended destination, most likely in Washington.

However heartfelt, Bowden’s action has sparked anger in several circles, and again raised the question of whether America spends too much time, emotion and money on the games it plays.

In the days and weeks following the terrorist attacks, the answer appeared obvious. Stadiums and arenas fell silent. Sports, the diversion Americans take so seriously, really did seem trivial compared with the tragedies that befell the nation and the challenges that lay ahead.

But the games resumed, offering comfort for many. Baseball and football wrapped themselves in the flag, and fans went to the ballparks and watched on TV. The idea was to show that no terrorists could change their way of life, and the mere act of watching a game became, in some eyes, almost a patriotic endeavor.

“The idea that nobody would want to watch a football game again — one can see why people were making those predictions on Sept. 12,” said Robert Thompson, professor of media

Tampa Bay Devil Rays players watch President Bush during his address to the nation before their game with the New York Yankees on Oct. 7 at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Fla. Bush anounced the beginning of air strikes against the Taliban in Afghanistan. and popular culture at Syracuse University. “But you could also see that, looking down the road a bit, there was no way that would come true.”

Security was tightened.

President Bush threw out the first pitch at the World Series at Yankee Stadium, and tears flowed throughout the crowd. It was an emotional — and healing — moment.

With readings of the Declaration of Independence, and playing in a stadium surrounded by military trucks and soldiers, the Super Bowl took on the strange feel of a Fourth of July parade set at a border crossing.

Nearly a year after the attacks, the security checks remain — “They may be the lasting legacy of Sept. 11 when it comes to sports,” Thompson says — but so much else in the sporting world has reverted to normal.

That’s why the uproar over Bowden’s decision is somewhat surprising. He surely didn’t expect it.

Critics felt using “Let’s Roll” as a rallying cry for a football game did a disservice to those who gave their lives so bravely.

“There is sacrifice, and then there is sacrifice,” columnist David Whitley of the Orlando Sentinel wrote. “To equate the perspiration of spring practice to the sweat Beamer and Co. must have had when they rushed the cockpit is an insult to their heroism.”

George Vecsey, a columnist for The New York Times, called it a “blatant misuse of a hero’s words.”

“Bowden said he adapted Beamer’s words in homage to the heroes on Flight 93,” Vecsey wrote. “But by putting the words on T-shirts and using them as the rallying cry, Bowden is over

the line. He huffed that his critics might have a patriotism problem, which gets to the core of the issue.”

Others, however, say doubting Bowden’s sincerity was the real travesty.

None other than the head of the Todd Beamer Foundation, Douglas MacMillan, applauded Bowden’s gesture. From there, the debate raged on — to be hashed over on talk radio, the Internet and in sports columns.

In some ways, Thompson sees the debate itself as a sign of American strength.

“To think all this passion over sports would have gone away after 9-11 is silly,” Thompson said. “You can’t change a culture’s personality overnight, and that’s probably a good thing.”

The return to normal doesn’t discount the effects the attacks had, both on Sept. 11 and beyond.

Players for the New York Giants and Jets were among the slowest to heal from the emotional scars. They practiced in sight of the wreckage of the World Trade Center, and several led the way in persuading the NFL to cancel games the weekend after the attacks.

“We’ve come a long way since that day,” said Jets quarterback Vinny Testaverde, whose father was a construction worker on the twin towers. “People are more aware of their surroundings and we’ve healed a lot. But we remember what we’ve lost, and the freedom we thought we had.”

The Olympics in Salt Lake City were as much American celebration as international competition. U.S. athletes won an unprecedented 34 medals, and many said Sept. 11 was their inspiration.

Some of the Sept. 11 victims many Americans felt they got to know after their deaths: Todd Beamer:The 32-year-old Oracle Corp. account manager from Cranbury, N.J., was believed to have helped lead a passenger attack on Flight 93 hijackers that prevented the jet from reaching its target, possibly the White House. Beamer spoke to a GTE operator on the plane’s phone.

His final words — “Are you guys ready? Let’s roll!” — have become a rallying cry for the war against terrorism. Beamer and wife, Lisa, had two sons: David, now 4, and Drew, 2. His daughter, Morgan, was born in January. Beamer played baseball and basketball in college and loved coaching youth sports. President Bush, in an address to the nation last fall, praised Beamer as “an exceptional man.” Today, the Todd M. Beamer Foundation aims to help kids deal with trauma and learn how to make choices.

Mark Bingham: A 6-foot-5 rugby player and public relations firm founder, Bingham called his mother from Flight 93 and said he and other passengers were planning to fight back. Bingham, 31, was gay, and has become a symbol of inspiration to the nation’s gay community.The Mark Bingham Leadership Fund provides scholarships to students with interests in areas including rugby and the qualities of teamwork, leadership and heroism. Rugby teams in the San Francisco Bay area now vie for a cup named in Bingham’s honor.

Thomas E. Burnett Jr.: Burnett called his wife, Deena, to tell her about the Flight 93 hijacking and said he and other passengers were “going to do something about it.”

Burnett, 38, of San Ramon, Calif., was senior vice president and chief operating officer of Thoratec Corp., a medical research and development company. His wife and three daughters moved to Arkansas this year to be closer to her parents.The new Thomas Burnett Family Foundation plans to provide endowments for children’s bereavement camps and leadership scholarships at selected universities.

Jeremy Glick: Glick called his wife, Lyz, after terrorists took over Flight 93. She patched the call to a 911 dispatcher, who told Glick about earlier attacks in New York. Glick told his wife some passengers had taken a vote, and “We’re going to rush the hijackers.” Glick, 31, of West Milford, N.J., had been a collegiate judo champion at the University of Rochester. His older sister, Jennifer, is president of the new Jeremy’s Heroes foundation, which has supplied sneakers to kids in Chicago and paid for 20 children in Washington to attend a soccer camp.The idea is to build character through sports.

The Rev. Mychal Judge: Judge’s death certificate listed him as victim No. 00001 — the first official fatality of the World Trade Center attack. A stretch of West 31st Street has been renamed in the New York fire department chaplain’s honor, and the Mychal Judge ferry runs around Manhattan and from New Jersey. A group of New York firefighters traveled to the Vatican to deliver Judge’s helmet to Pope John Paul II. And former Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen’s grandson, born three weeks after the attack, was named Mason Judge. Judge’s poster-sized portrait still stands inside the front door of Engine Co. 1/Ladder Co. 24, his local firehouse.The Advocate, a national gay magazine, put him on its cover as one of “our heroes.”Thousands filled the church for Judge’s funeral, and hundreds stood outside.

Security experts say nation remains vulnerable

By Robert Tanner The Associated Press

In the past year, jets have been transformed into missiles while a bacterium has been used as a poison and shipped through the mail.

While much has been done to guard against another attack since Sept. 11, security experts say one certainty is that terrorists will try again.

The question on many Americans’ minds is: How safe are we? For any individual American, experts say, the answer is you face little personal threat. But the nation, though safer than it was a year ago, remains extremely vulnerable.

Just list the ways an attack could occur: a lone gunman with automatic weapons, a trio of sui-

cide bombers in a crowded airport, a chemical attack spread in a mall’s ventilation system, a dirty bomb of leftover radiological material slipped onto a commercial cargo ship, a group of suicide bioterrorists who sicken themselves with smallpox and wander through several cities, a stolen nuclear warhead detonated at a downtown dock.

“If Sept. 11 demonstrated anything, it’s that it is illusory that we can wrap ourselves in a security blanket,” said Bruce Hoffman, a counterterrorism expert at the nonprofit Rand Corp., and a consultant to the federal government.

“Terrorism, and particularly that of al-Qaida, is the archetypal shark in the water that has to keep moving forward to stay alive.”

Yet experts note that the danger to any one person must be kept in perspective — auto accidents killed 41,821 people in 2000 while last year’s anthrax attacks killed five.

“You accept certain risks,” said Jerome Hauer, who oversaw emergency management in New York and now heads the Public Health Preparedness Office for the federal Health and Human Services Department.

“There’s a similar risk when you get in the car in the morning. You assume that the tractor trailer driver will drive safely, that the drunk driver won’t hit you head on.”

And there are ways to cut the odds.

U.S. Customs officers are head-

ed overseas to check cargo containers as they’re loaded in Singapore; local police and FBI are sharing more information about threats and suspects; hospitals and public health departments are tracking diseases for potential bioterror attacks; new laws require traders and bankers to more thoroughly track the people behind the money.

The changes aren’t only in big cities. In Utah’s rural Iron County, with a small airport in the desert, a new mindset has taken root.

“Now, I recognize that once you’re through security in a little tiny airport, you have access to any airport in the world,” said Sheriff Dude Benson, whose county has 35,000 people scattered over 3,300 square miles.

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Port Authority Police Officer Paul Hadinger (left) and his bomb-sniffing dog, Renie, check the luggage of passengers at New York’s La Guardia Airport on Jan. 18. New baggage screening techniques were implemented as a law went into effect requiring airlines to check bags for explosives.

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Arab shutout could spawn more terrorism G IZA, Egypt — Less than a mile from one of the seven wonders of the world, a dead horse floats in the water.

The majesty of the Pyramids of Giza, the most famous and recognized of Egypt’s ancient pyramids, is shadowed by the throngs of hucksters hawking pens, books, camel rides and photographs. If you get a minute to look up and contemplate the vast, ancient blocks of limestone, a mystical old man will place “lucky” scarabshaped beads in your hand as a “gift.” What he doesn’t tell you right away is the beads are lucky for him, because they’re not really a gift.

Tourism hasn’t made this community of about 5 million rich.

And since Sept. 11, the residents of Giza have had to depend less on their favorite sales target — American tourists. After the attacks, tourism dropped in Egypt by more than 60 percent, said Ahmed Maher, Egypt’s foreign minister. It’s bouncing back, but they still don’t see enough Americans.

“The best tourists are Russian,” he said.

Granted, Sept. 11 can’t be solely blamed for Egypt’s tourism problems. In 1997, 58 tourists in Luxor were massacred by Muslim militants, and tourism didn’t recover until two years ago. Visitors to the country are protected by armed guards — not the most relaxing of environments.

But Sept. 11 certainly had an impact, and it goes both ways.

Egyptian and Saudi tourists have avoided America, and worse, college students and those seeking medical procedures have sought their education and treatment elsewhere.

It’s costing us billions, and it could be costing us our safety.

■■■ An American in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia said the U.S. health care industry stands to lose $1 billion this year because Saudis are going to Canada and Europe for treatment instead. It’s too hard for them to get visas, he explained.

Fiona Jacob Elias, the director of clinical nursing at King Fahd National Guard Hospital in Riyadh, said her staff is busier because more Saudis are getting treated here. They don’t want the hassle of traveling to the States, she said.

Hassan Batarfi, a nursing administrator at the hospital, had

About this report

Wausau Daily Herald Opinion Page editor Nikki Kallio traveled with other opinion editors to the Middle East and central Asia in June to learn about Muslim culture.The group visited Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Uzbekistan. A series of stories on her trip appeared on Aug. 4, Aug. 11 and Aug. 18.

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Members of the Egyptian tourist police force consult in the foreground of one of the famous Pyramids of Giza.

Tourism has plunged in Egypt since Sept. 11, though it’s making a recovery. The U.S. economy also has lost Arab tourists, but of greater concern is the loss of university students and medical patients.

planned to come to the United States for a doctorate. Now, he’s not so sure.

Dr. Fawad Al-Fahsi, Saudi Arabia’s minister of information, said more students are choosing to stay in Saudi Arabia or other Arab states for their university-level education.

Al-Fahsi fears the United States is adopting a xenophobic, isolationist attitude toward the Arab world.

“You are making it very hard for the Arab people to go to the U.S.,” he said.

■■■ The same thing with tourism.

Saudis stayed longer and spent more money in America than any other tourists, but that’s now 90 percent lost, officials said.

Saudi Arabian Airlines used to operate a direct flight between Jeddah and Orlando, Fla., but this year the airline canceled the flight because of a lack of interest.

Princess Reem Al-Faisal, granddaughter of the assassinated King Faisal, said Arabs don’t feel welcome in America.

“My cousins were called ‘sand niggers’ and ‘drug dealers,’ and that was before Sept. 11,” Al-Faisal said.

■■■ This fall, the Immigration and Naturalization Service will begin fingerprinting and photographing visitors from Arab nations who

have been flagged as having a higher national security risk to America. Visitors from Iran, Iraq, Libya and Sudan already are subjected to this.

For this and other reasons, such as tighter security checks and unofficial profiling, Arabs are thinking twice about entering the country.

Mohammed Rashid, Saudi Arabia’s minister of education, was educated in the United States, as were many of the top Saudi officials. Rashid’s children are here now, a situation that makes him uncomfortable.

“I used to call them once a month,” Rashid said. “Now I’m calling them every other day.”

Rashid recently sold his home in Portland, Ore. It’s just too difficult to get into the States now, he said.

“We Saudis used to be the most welcome in the States,” Rashid said.

Eight major universities operate in Saudi Arabia, the most recent established in 1998, according to the Saudi Arabian Information Resource Web site.

Maher, Egypt’s foreign minister, said a new American University is being built in Jordan.

“Right now, there is a lot of worry among Arabs about how they’ll be treated in the U.S.,” Maher said. “These are extraordinary circumstances that need extraordinary measures, but it’s uncharacteristic of the U.S. What we do know about the U.S., we

do not think these things will last.”

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Abdullah, when asked if U.S. and Saudi relations were at a low point, had this to say (through an interpreter): “The American people and the Saudi people are friends, have been for more than 60 years. In one house, in one home, there are problems among family members, and they have to be solved.”

■■■ The problems are not being solved.

There is a growing concern that a new generation of Saudis are being educated at Saudi universities, which heavily emphasize sharia or Islamic law, instead of receiving an education in the United States and having the exposure to American culture, said a Western diplomatic source in Riyadh.

The next generation likely will have a deeper connection to strict Islamic law and less of a connection with the West.

Mix that with a high population growth rate and an economy that’s far too dependent on oil. Now you have thousands of young men with a religious education who can’t find jobs.

U.S. officials have said the Taliban and al-Qaida were able to develop in Afghanistan because America pulled out when the Russians did in 1989, leaving the nation’s economy in a shambles.

As we’re making it more difficult for Arabs to live in America, we could be making it more difficult for ourselves to fight terrorism in the future.

Muslims in U.S. face discrimination, hope in year since attacks

By Rachel Zoll The Associated Press

Burhan Ghanayem saw the best and worst of America in the days following Sept. 11.

A lie spread through his community that he and his family of Muslim immigrants held a party at their Durham County, N.C., restaurant celebrating the apocalypse in lower Manhattan.

Business nearly stopped.

But in a moment worthy of “It’s a Wonderful Life,” customers upset by the rumor gathered at the restaurant in a show of support.

Hundreds of strangers came, too, and one man even offered to get his gun and guard the building, Ghanayem said.

“America is full of great people,” he said. “But it’s really been an overall difficult year. There have been a lot of disappointments for us.”

The 12 months since the World Trade Center crumbled have been a time of both dread and promise for the millions of Muslims living in America.

While President Bush made the grand gesture of visiting a mosque, an Ohio man sent a different signal by ramming his truck into one in suburban Cleveland. As Americans consumed books on Islam, Franklin Graham and other evangelists denounced the religion as evil.

Muslims were in demand for better and worse — by FBI agents looking for links to terrorists and church groups that simply wanted to know what “jihad” means.

A survey released in August by the advocacy group the Council on American-Islamic Relations reflected the split Muslims found in society. More than half of the respondents said they experienced discrimination, but nearly 80 percent also reported receiving support from friends or colleagues of other faiths.

The overt name-calling and

threats have largely stopped now, but so have the visits to the White House, Muslim leaders say.

Muslim groups say they more often deal with the less-influential community relations arms of government agencies and have not been invited to meet with Bush on policy issues since last fall.

Some leaders said they felt the president used them to build support for bombing Afghanistan and, as violence intensified in Israel and the Palestinian territories, his willingness to consider the American Muslim perspective waned.

“The extremists in the neoconservative and pro-Israel lobby — their views have taken over,” council spokesman Ibrahim Hooper said. “Their view is don’t deal with Muslims. Marginalize Muslims.

Exclude them.”

Lezlee Westine, director of the White House Office of Public Liaison, said the administration has consistently reached out to Muslim activists, providing briefings on issues ranging from foreign policy to civil rights.

“9-11 has cut both ways,” said Mahdi Bray, executive director of the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation, a Washington advocacy group. “I think it has intimidated some people to the point they’re afraid to write a check to their local mosque. But at the same time, I think it has emboldened many in the Muslim community that they’re not going to be scapegoated for something they didn’t do.”

Some of the most difficult moments in the past year have ended up benefiting the Muslim community the most, said Sayyid M. Syeed, secretary general of the Islamic Society of North America in Plainfield, Ind. When Attorney General John Ashcroft announced that terror suspect Jose Padilla had converted to Islam apparently while he was

The Sphinx of Giza is one of the world’s most famous images, silently guarding the tombs of kings. U.S. officials, hoping to guard the nation against future terrorist attacks, are increasing security measures against people from Arab nations. Some officials say that’s putting a strain on America’s relationship with the Arab world, and could lead to more problems with terrorism in the future.

Backlash bias has become more subtle

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Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, (center) was joined by Rev. Ibrahim Ibrahim (left) and Imam Fawaz Damra in a verse of “God Bless America” in front of the damaged Grand Mosque in Parma, Ohio, on Sept. 17. A man drove his car through the front entrance of the mosque early that morning.

Muslim in America Some facts about Muslims living in the United States: ■ Numbers: Estimates of the numbers of Muslims in the United States vary dramatically, from 2 million to 6 million.

■ Ethnicity: About 33 percent are South Asian, 30 percent U.S.born blacks and 25 percent Arab. European immigrants, Africans, U.S.born whites and others make up the rest, according to “The Mosque in America,” a 2001 report commissioned by U.S. Muslim leaders.

■ Growth: The largest influx of Muslims began after 1965, when President Lyndon Johnson abolished an immigration quota system that disproportionately benefited Europeans. Large Muslim communities have formed in Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago and New York.

■ Mosques: Nearly all of the nation’s estimated 1,200 mosques were founded in the last 30 years, many with money from governments of predominantly Muslim countries. in prison, Ashcroft inadvertently helped make ISNA’s annual conference on Islam in prison the most successful ever.

Syeed recorded 250,000 hits on his group’s Web site immediately after Ashcroft’s remarks, and conference attendance doubled.

“We couldn’t have received that publicity if we had spent a million dollars,” he said. “That’s unparalleled. It would have taken us years to reach that level of education.”

Muslim groups say the rate of conversion to Islam appears to be the same as before the attacks, but curiosity about the religion remains high. Syeed said the depth of popular interest in Muslims struck him when he walked into a Sam’s Club ware-

house store and saw a book for sale called “The Complete Idiot’s Guide, Understanding Islam.”

“I thought I should send a copy to Franklin Graham,” he quipped.

Despite their higher profile in public life, Muslims see a difficult road ahead. Many are clinging to the hope that the political rights and freedoms that drew their families to the United States will protect them as the war on terror continues.

“I feel we are at the edge of a McCarthy era against the Muslims,” said Mahmoud Ayoub, a professor of Islamic studies at Temple University in Philadelphia.

“But I have faith that the American system, with all its problems, has the capacity to always correct itself.”

Reports of beatings, stabbings, shootings and other backlash violence after Sept. 11 have slowed to a trickle, only to be replaced by complaints of subtler — and harder to prove — forms of discrimination at work, at school and in everyday interactions.

Advocates who track such reports say they are hearing more from people like Farrah Spencer.

She says her boss and co-workers started asking her questions just after the terrorist attacks such as “Why do you guys hate America?”

This spring, she received a letter at work from a friend in Saudi Arabia, then two days later lost her job as office manager at a venture capital firm in New York City.

She believes it was because she is Muslim and Arab-American.

Company president Steven Stull says her position was eliminated due to budget cuts — not religion.

Many other workplace discrimination claims also are a matter of debate. Employees are convinced they are the victims of prejudice even as employers say layoffs are due to economic cutbacks, performance or behavior problems.

Whatever the reason, groups that track such complaints say they are far higher than in previous years.

The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission created a new, internal tracking code specifically for Sept. 11-related charges. About 600 charges have been filed by people who believe they were fired or harassed due to backlash. Religious discrimination charges from Muslims have nearly tripled from the same period a year ago, said EEOC spokesman David Grinberg.

“Anger at those responsible for the terrorist attacks should not be misdirected against individuals in the workplace because of their religion, their ethnicity or their country of origin,” Grinberg said.

In about the first five months following the Sept. 11 attacks, at least 17 percent of the 1,717 back-

lash reports the Council on American-Islamic Relations received were about physical assault and property damage.

Between March 15 and midAugust, CAIR said it received 345 reports, mostly alleging employment discrimination, harassment by the Immigration and Naturalization Service and FBI, and airport profiling. The group has also noted a recent increase in custody cases in which nonMuslim parents say they don’t want their children raised in Muslim homes.

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which established a hot line for backlash complaints, received 580 calls before Jan. 25.

Since then, it has only gotten a handful a month, said spokeswoman Nathea Lee. “The violence has now transformed itself into employment discrimination,” said William Haddad, executive director of the Arab American Bar Association in Illinois. “Murder, arson, defacements and attacks — blatant acts of brutality — have been replaced with conduct in the workplace or in public accommodations.”

Among the reports advocacy groups have received: ■ An Arab-American taxi driver said he was questioned by New York City police after a passenger filed a complaint saying he made anti-U.S. statements. The driver later offered paperwork to prove he wasn’t working at the time the passenger claimed he made the comments.

■ A Lebanese engineer in Chicago was fired shortly after his employer asked him whether he had traveled to a terrorist training ground in Lebanon during a visit with his family last summer.

■ A Sikh cardiologist and nine other family members and friends were searched each time they boarded an airplane during a recent vacation. The doctor says his group was singled out because they are of Indian descent and some wore turbans as articles of their faith.

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A plane approaches New York’s World Trade Center moments before it struck the tower at left, as seen from downtown Brooklyn on Sept. 11. In an unprecedented show of terrorist horror, the 110-story towers collapsed in a

shower of rubble and dust after two hijacked airliners carrying scores of passangers slammed into them.

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With the U.S. Capitol in the background, day breaks over a still-burning Pentagon in Washington on Sept. 12. There are only a few days in the history of the United States with the impact of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

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An American flag is posted in the rubble of the World Trade Center on Sept. 13 in New York. The search for survivors and the recovery of the victims continued for weeks after the attacks.

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A passenger at Central Wisconsin Airport in Mosinee carries his luggage through the 10-foot-high blast barrier in front of the terminal on Oct. 15. The barrier was part of the new security measures air travelers faced after the terrorist attacks.The barrier has since been removed.

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The World Trade Center disaster site and World Financial Center (background) are in the shadows of the buildings of Manhattan early Monday morning in New York. A huge American flag draped the side of the Merrill Lynch building two days before the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

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Cathy Stefani of San Jose, Calif., places a teddy bear next to an “angel” marker for her daughter, Nicole Miller, Monday at a makeshift memorial at the Shanksville, Pa., site of the Sept. 11, 2001 crash of United Flight 93. Her daughter died in the crash.