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PIONEER NEWSPAPERS • September 11, 2011

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About this publication The Day the World Changed: Some changes were dramatic; some were subtle. In countless ways, our lives changed after the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.

We feel it’s important to mark the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the U.S. with special coverage to remember, honor and respect — and to step back for a look at what’s different.

We’ve witnessed attacks, reforms, wars, surges, withdrawals, recession and executions — worth some analysis.

Pioneer newspapers participating in this special section include those located in: Ellensburg, Wash.; Klamath Falls, Ore.; Driggs, Nampa, Pocatello and Rexburg, Idaho; and Logan, Utah. We wish to express our gratitude to all those staff members as well as businesses who supported this tribute.

9:21 a.m.: All bridges and tunnels into Manhattan closed.

9:26 a.m.: Federal Aviation Administration bans takeoff of all civilian aircraft.

9:31 a.m.: President George W. Bush announces United States under “apparent terrorist attack.”

9:37 a.m.: Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon.

9:45 a.m.: U.S. Capitol, White House evacuated.

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9:59 a.m.: The south tower starts to collapse as smoke billows from both buildings of the World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 11, 2001.

Sept. 11, 2001 7:59 a.m.: American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767 with 87 passengers, leaves Boston for Los Angeles.

8:14 a.m.: United Airlines Flight 175, a Boeing 767 with 60 passengers, leaves Boston for Los Angeles.

8:20 a.m.: American Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing 757 with 59 aboard, leaves Washington’s Dulles Airport for Los Angeles.

8:42 a.m.: United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757 with 40 aboard, leaves Newark, N.J., for San Francisco.

8:46 a.m.: American Flight 11 hits the north tower of the World Trade Center.

9:03 a.m.: United Flight 175 hits south tower of the World Trade Center.

❛ I was worried because my mom was worried. I was scared. She said there might be a war coming to the U.S. I just wanted to watch cartoons again. ❜ — Casey Owens, recalling the Sept. 11 attacks

Recruits: Growing up in the shadow of 9/11 TAMARA LUSH Associated Press

Casey Owens remembers this about Sept. 11, 2001: he was home from school sick, lying in his mom’s bed and watching cartoons on TV. He was 7 years old.

The phone rang, and Owens’ mom changed the channel to a news station.

The Twin Towers were burning in New York, some 750 miles from the family’s Summerville, S.C., home.

Owens’ mom started crying.

“I was worried because my mom was worried,” he said. “I was scared. She said there might be a war coming to the U.S. I just wanted to watch cartoons again.”

A decade later, Owens sits in an Army recruiting office in an eastern South Carolina strip mall with his mother. When he graduates from high school, the 17-year-old will go to boot camp next June. Sept.

11 attacks, he said, were

his inspiration.

The tens of thousands of young men and women like Owens who have enlisted in the military this year grew up in the shadow of 9/11, often too young to remember the world well before it. Some say they want to serve a country that’s been at war against terrorism since early childhood; others say they want to find control in a world that’s seemingly spun out of control.

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9:59 a.m.: South tower of World Trade Center collapses.

10:03 a.m.: United Flight 93 crashes near Shanksville, Pa., after passengers struggle with hijackers.

10:28 a.m.: North tower of the World Trade Center collapses.

4 p.m.: U.S. officials identify Osama bin Laden as being involved in attacks.

5:25 p.m.: The evacuated 47-story Seven World Trade Center collapses.

8:30 p.m.: Bush addresses the nation, vowing to “find those responsible and bring them to justice.”

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Sept. 13, 2001: White House states there is “overwhelming evidence” Osama bin Laden is behind the attacks.

Sept. 14, 2001: President Bush authorized by Congress to use “all necessary and appropriate force” against those who aided or committed the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Oct. 4, 2001: British Prime Minister Tony Blair announces that three of the 19 hijackers identified as “known associates” of Osama bin Laden.

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TIMELINE, from page 3 Oct. 5, 2001: In a terrorist attack unrelated to 9/11, letters containing anthrax are received by news organizations and Senate members.

Eleven people infected, five die.

Oct. 7, 2001: U.S. begins bombing strike against Taliban military installations in Afghanistan.

Dec. 17, 2001: Northern Alliance defeats Taliban forces in the battle of Tora Bora, defeating the Taliban resistance and effectively ending the Afghan war.

Dec. 22, 2001: Richard Reid, a British citizen, arrested for attempting to use explosives to blow up a Miami-bound jet. Reid pleads guilty to all charges and declares himself a follower of Osama bin Laden.

March 19, 2002: CIA Director George Tenet claims there are links between Iraq and al Qaida.

March 18, 2002: President Bush gives Saddam Hussein 48 hours to leave Iraq, threatening military action.

March 20, 2002: President Bush orders an attack against targets in Iraq. Troops from the U.S., Britain, Australia and Poland invade Iraq.

April 19, 2002: Baghdad falls to U.S. forces.

Dec. 13, 2003: Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein captured near Tikrit.

Oct. 29, 2004: Osama bin Laden takes responsibility for Sept. 11 attacks in a videotaped message.

Dec. 30, 2006: Saddam Hussein executed.

May 2, 2011: Osama bin Laden killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan.

RECRUIT, from page 3

Sept. 11, and was interested enough to enlist.

“I believe that terrorists will The attack that happened on U.S. have plans in the future,” said Tim soil 10 years ago, he said, is even Freeman, 20, a Marine recruit from harder to stomach now that he’s an Beaufort, S.C. “But our military’s adult. going to be waiting for it.”

“Now I see the footage of the Ten years ago, Freeman was in towers crumbling and I can’t even fifth grade. His dad pulled him out stand to watch it,” he said. “It’s just of school after a somber thing in the the first plane consciousness of my hit and Freeman mind.” remembers being Waiting confused because Stuart Gaskins, all the grown-ups who has been a were crying and Marine for a year stone-faced. and is stationed Military at Parris Island, recruitment did S.C., was eager to not surge in the celebrate his 15th years after Sept. birthday on Sept. 11, 11; the Army met 2001. its recruitment Instead, he goals in 2001 and watched the attacks 2002, but by 2005, on TV in his second had fallen short of period world hisits 80,000-person tory class in Bowie, goal.

Md., and went home Yet there were soon after. Gaskins’ people who enlistAP photo father worked at the ed because they were angry at the Inspired: Casey Owens, 17, an Army recruit from Summerville, S.C., was Pentagon and it was 7 years old when the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks happened. He said hours before Gasterrorists. kins learned that his the event was one of the things that inspired him to join the military.

And the weak father was alive. economy played a As a young teen, Gaskins said he right one,” he said. role. Branches of the military now was “kind of a pacifist.” His father, report that they are meeting — or A long process who had served in the military, even exceeding — their recruitment Matthew Locklair, a 22-year-old goals and are attracting better Army officer candidate recruit from often traveled around the world for qualified recruits, largely because South Carolina, said it took years to conflicts.

“9/11 changed my mindset,” Gasof the lack of jobs for young people. process the effect that 9/11 had on Military service ensures a paycheck his country, years before he thought kins said. “It changed something inside of me. It made me want to and benefits. about enlisting. fight for my country. We all became GI Bill When his seventh-grade science Another perk: the post-9/11 GI teacher announced to the class that vulnerable. It became real.”

Bill, which pays for full tuition and “there’s been an attack on America,” fees for all public universities and Locklair remembered, “I thought colleges and a monthly housing she meant there was an attack on allowance for those who have at Summerville’s town hall. I couldn’t ❛9/11 changed my mindset. It least 90 days of service since Sept. really comprehend the loss until changed something inside of 11, 2001. years later.” me.

It made me want to fight Angelo Haygood, the deputy chief Locklair never thought about of recruiting operations for the Air joining the military until he went for my country. We all became Force, said that all recruits are to school in Egypt, at The Amerivulnerable. It became real. ❜ asked their top three reasons for can University in Cairo. There, he joining the service. learned about defense policy and

Watching on September 11 The first indication of the horrors to come was a single camera shot that suddenly appeared on television sets throughout the world: a skyscraper bathed in the morning sun, smoke pouring from a ragged hole in its side. The images grew even

In seven out of the past 10 years, recruits have cited “patriotism” as a reason for joining, Haygood said.

But he’s reluctant to say that Sept.

11 was the sole motivator for people to enlist in the Air Force.

“For those who were interested in joining, Sept. 11 gave them a confirmation that their decision was the

worse, as the entire world witnessed the death and destruction of Sept. 11, 2001.

Whether in a bar in Tahiti or office building in New York, television was the central gathering place for people to experience 9/11.

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Tom Brokaw was relieved to be in New York Sept. 11 and not out of town on assignment when the biggest story of his career broke. NBC News’ chief anchor found out later just how huge a relief it was to be.

“For those of us on the air, we were out there without a net of any kind,” he said.

“We had no idea what was going to happen next. No one else did either.”

Most Americans learned what happened on Sept. 11 and the ensuing days through three men: Brokaw of NBC News, Peter Jennings of ABC News and Dan Rather of CBS News.

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Idaho’s fallen heroes Navy Lt. Cmdr. Ron Vauk, a Nampa High graduate, was killed during the Sept. 11, 2011 attacks while on duty at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va. z See story, page 8

Brady K. Howell, 26, Sugar City, died Sept. 11, 2001, at the Pentagon where he worked for the Navy.

He received the Superior Civilian Service of Medal — equal to the Purple Heart — for his accomplishments.

Army Sgt. Kelly S. Morris, 24, Boise, was killed March 30, 2005 in Baghdad, Iraq.

Army Sgt. John B. Ogburn III, 45, Fruitland, was killed May 22, 2005 in Kirkuk, Iraq.

Army Staff Sgt. Virgil R. Case, 37, Mountain Home, was killed June 1, 2005 in Kirkuk, Iraq.

Army Spc. Carrie L. French, 19, Caldwell, was killed June 5, 2005 in Kirkuk, Iraq.

Army Pfc. Jacob H. Allcott, 21, Caldwell, was killed April 22, 2006 in Baghdad, Iraq.

Army Sgt. Jeremy E. King, 23, Meridian, was killed Aug. 24, 2006 in Baghdad.

Army Sgt. James J. Holton, 22, Boise, was killed Feb. 8, 2007 in Karmah, Iraq.

Army Sgt. Blake C. Stephens, 25, Pocatello, was killed May 8, 2007, in Salman Pak, Iraq.

Army Sgt. Nicholas A. Gummersall, 23, Chubbuck, was killed Aug. 6, 2007 near Baghdad, Iraq.

Army Sgt. Michael T. Lilly, Boise, was killed April 7, 2008 in Sadr City, Iraq.

Air Force National Guard Lt. Col. Joseph A. Moore, 54, died May 20, 2008, of natural causes in Djibouti, Afghanistan.

Marine Lance Cpl. Cody A. Roberts, 22, Boise, was killed Aug. 31, 2010 in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

Army Sgt. Devin J. Daniels, 22, Kuna, was killed Aug. 25, 2011 in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

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Army Pvt. Raymond M. Werner, 21, Boise, was killed Feb. 8, 2007 in Karmah, Iraq.

Navy Cmdr. Philip A. Murphy-Sweet, 42, Caldwell, was killed April 7, 2007 in Baghdad, Iraq.

Army Pfc. John G. Borbonus, 19, Boise, died April 12, 2007 in Baghdad, Iraq.

Air Force Maj. Gregory Stone, 40, Boise, was killed March 25, 2003 at Camp Pennsylvania, Kuwait.

Army Cpl. Richard P. Carl, 26, King Hill, was killed May 9, 2003 near Samarra, Iraq.

Army Capt. James A. Shull, 32, Kamiah, was killed Nov. 17, 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq.

Army Pfc. Jerrick M. Petty, 25, Idaho Falls, was killed Dec. 10, 2003 in Mosul, Iraq.

Army Pfc. Cleston C. Raney, 20, Rupert, was killed March 31, 2004 in Habbaniyah, Iraq.

Marine Pfc. Christopher J. Reed, 20, Craigmont, was killed July 10, 2004 in Anbar Province, Iraq.

Marine Maj. Alan Rowe, 35, Hagerman, was killed Aug. 3, 2004 in Anbar Province, Iraq.

Army Spc. Brandon T. Titus, 20, Boise, was killed Aug. 8, 2004 in Baghdad, Iraq.

Army Capt. Eric L. Allton, 34, Boise, was killed Sept. 26, 2004 in Ramadi, Iraq.

Army Lt. Luke Wullenwaber, 24, Lewiston, was killed Nov. 16, 2004 in Khalidiyah, Iraq.

Marine Lance Cpl. Dustin V. Birch, 22, Saint Anthony, was killed June 9, 2005 in Haqlaniyah, Iraq.

Amy Staff Sgt. Ivan Vargas Alarcon, 23, Jerome, was killed on Nov. 17, 2005 in Tal Afar, Iraq.

Army Spc. James L. Bridges, 22, Buhl, was killed Nov. 4, 2006 in Baghdad. Iraq.

Army Sgt. Emerson N. Brand, 29, Rigby, was killed March 15, 2007 in Baghdad, Iraq.

Army Petty Officer 2nd Class Curtis R. Hall, 24, Burley, was killed April 6, 2007 in Kirkuk, Iraq.

Army Sgt. Maj. Bradly D. Conner, 41, Coeur d’Alene, was killed May 9, 2007 near Al-Hillah, Iraq.

Army Pfc. Charles B. Hester, 23, Cataldo, was killed May 26, 2007 in Baghdad, Iraq.

Army Pfc. Adam J. Davis, 19, Twin Falls, was killed July 23, 2007 in Sarobi district, Afghanistan.

Army Sgt. Joshua L. Morley, 22, Boise, was killed Aug. 26, 2007 in Samarra, Iraq.

Army Spc. Randy L.J. Neff, 22, Blackfoot, was killed July 22, 2009 in Zabul Province, Afghanistan.

Army Chief Warrant Officer Mathew C. Heffelfinger, Kimberly, was killed Nov. 8, 2009 in Tikrit, Iraq.

Army Pfc. Robert J. Near, 21, Nampa, was killed Jan. 7, 2011 in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Idaho National Guard Spc. Nathan R. Beyers, 24, was killed July 7, 2011 in Baghdad, Iraq. Beyers is from Littleton, Colo., but lived in Post Falls prior to his deployment.

Idaho National Guard Spc. Nicholas W. Newby, 20, Coeur D’Alene, was killed July 7, 2011 in Baghdad, Iraq.

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Members of the 321st Engineer Battalion carry the casket of Sgt. Ross Aaron Clevenger, 21, into the gym of Marsing High School for the Feb. 17 funeral service. Clevenger was killed by a roadside bomb Feb. 8, 2007, in Iraq.

Total Sept. 11, 2001, death toll The overall death toll from the attacks stands at 2,977 — including 2,753 killed as a result of the attacks at the World Trade Center, 184 at the Pentagon and 40 in the crash of United Airlines Flight 93 in Pennsylvania. The death toll does not include the 19 hijackers aboard the four jetliners.

Army Spc. Ross A. Clevenger, 21, of Givens Hot Springs, was killed Feb. 8 , 2007 in Karmah, Iraq.

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AP photo by Mary Altaffer

Never forget: This Aug. 10, 2011, photo shows posters on a wall of the garden behind a tent which houses a chapel and storage of the remains of victims of the attacks on the World Trade Center near Chief Medical Examiner Office Forensic Biology Lab in New York.

❛ You can find DNA from the Civil War, World War I and World War II. But you can’t find DNA from first responders or civilians? ❜ — Russell Mercer, whose stepson, a firefighter, was killed at the World Trade Center. His remains were never found.

Identifying remains: ‘We are working nonstop’ Despite DNA technology, all the missing have not yet been found CRISTIAN SALAZAR Associated Press

EW YORK — His family has his spare N firefighter uniform, but not the one he wore on 9/11 — or any other trace of him.

Killed at the World Trade Center, 32year-old Scott Kopytko’s remains were never recovered — a painful legacy of grief for families looking for answers, closure or final confirmation that their loved one was actually a 9/11 victim.

“Very painful and very hurt” is how Russell Mercer, Kopytko’s stepfather, describes it. “And mistrusting of everybody.”

Numbers tell the story in the decade of search and recovery of the remains of Sept.

11 victims — one of the largest forensic investigations ever, marked by a Supreme Court appeal of families who wanted a more thorough search, and discoveries years after the attacks of even more remains in manholes and on rooftops around ground zero.

■ Tens of millions have been spent, including on the painstaking extraction of DNA from tiny bone fragments, using technology refined from a decade ago.

■ Of 21,000 remains that have been recovered, nearly 9,000 are unidentified, because of the degraded condition they were found in. More than 1,100 victims have no identifiable remains.

■ And the pace of the process is telling

❛ There are certain pieces of footage that make the hair on my arms stand up or bring tears every time and probably always will. ❜ — Nicole Rittenhmeyer, writer/producer

Watching on September 11 Continued from page 4

On the rainy night of Sept. 10, 2001, Brokaw attended a reception for a blind mountain climber. Later, the event’s organizer told him that it had been rescheduled because Brokaw was unable to make the original date.

— in five years, only 25 new identifications.

“I can’t give a time frame of when an identification is going to be made, if at all,” said Mark Desire, who heads the World Trade Center identification unit for the city medical examiner’s office. “But we are working nonstop.”

Desire, assistant director of forensic biology for the medical examiner’s office, says the office won’t give up.

“The dedication of this team ... is as strong as it was 10 years ago,” he said in a recent interview.

But the extended search baffles family members like Mercer.

“You can find DNA from the Civil War, World War I and World War II,” he said.

“But you can’t find DNA from first responders or civilians?”

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That was to have been Tuesday morning, Sept. 11 — at the Windows on the World restaurant on top of the World Trade Center.

Nicole Rittenmeyer remembers screaming at Brokaw on Sept. 11.

Not him personally. Seven months pregnant and with a toddler under foot, she was watching the coverage in Chicago and saw the

first tower crumbling into a cloud of dust and a tangled mass of steel and concrete. Brokaw didn’t see it as quickly, and perhaps Rittenmeyer figured yelling at the TV set might get his attention.

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10 years, 21,000 bone fragments, no closure for victims’ families The struggle to identify the 9/11 dead began almost immediately after the attacks in New York City, the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pa., where one of the hijacked planes crashed in the woods and plains before reaching its intended target.

Forensic teams at the three sites were faced with challenges in identifying victims and the hijackers — some of whose remains are now in the custody of the FBI. In Pennsylvania, the heat caused by the high-speed crash into a field caused 92 percent of the human remains to vaporize, leaving very little to work with, said Wallace Miller, the county coroner who helped to identify the victims. DNA was used to make matches to the 40 victims, plus four sets of remains from the terrorists. Remains are still embedded in the field where the flight went down.

All but five of the 184 victims at the Pentagon were identified using DNA. But nowhere was the forensic detective work as demanding and daunting than at the 16-acre World Trade Center site.

Few full bodies were recovered at all.

Some remains were so badly burned or contaminated that DNA could not be analyzed.

By April 2005, the city’s chief medical examiner, Charles Hirsch, told families his office would be suspending identification efforts because it had “exhausted the limits of current DNA technology.”

And the mystery of who died in the trade center hasn’t yet been solved by science.

Twenty-seven profiles DNA generated so far don’t match any of the approximately 17,000 genetic reference materials that were collected. Scientists aren’t sure who they are.

“It’s an open investigation,” Desire said. “There may be some victims where there are no bone fragments. And they are never going to be identified.”

— Cristian Salazar

Watching on September 11 Continued from page 6

She’s seen that collapse countless times since. Starting with the “Inside 9/11” documentary she made for National Geographic in 2005, the filmmaker estimates she has spent five years on projects about the terrorist attacks.

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Lost history

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Mystery surrounds the loss of records and art on Sept. 11

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Down to DNA: Tatyana Gryazeva, a criminalist at the Office of Chief Medical Examiner, extracts DNA at a training lab of the OCME Forensic Biology Lab.

iDeNtity SeeKeRS Five scientists work seven days a week trying to make new identifications at a lab in an ultra-modern building on the east side of Manhattan. About 400 bone fragments are looked at and analyzed every month.

DNA analysis is done by comparing the remains’ genetic profile to DNA found from victims’ possessions, like toothbrushes; from relatives; or from previously identified remains.

The fragments are examined, cleaned, and pulverized into powder to extract tell-tale genetic traces — a process that can take up to a week.

“There’s a process that you go through that automatically puts up a kind of barrier, because you’re working on it,” said Rittenmeyer. “There are certain pieces of footage that make the hair on my arms stand up or bring tears every time and probably always will.”

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Dan Rather had little time to think about

it when David Letterman asked him to be part of the first “Late Show” since the attacks.

The night turned out to be one of the memorable television moments of the weeks after the attacks. The idea of resuming life had become a delicate issue in itself, with

NEW YORK (AP) — Letters written by Helen Keller. Fortythousand photographic negatives of John F. Kennedy taken by the president’s personal cameraman.

Sculptures by Alexander Calder and Auguste Rodin. The 1921 agreement that created the agency that built the World Trade Center.

Besides ending nearly 3,000 lives, destroying planes and reducing buildings to tons of rubble and ash, the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks destroyed tens of thousands of records, irreplaceable historical documents and art.

In some cases, the inventories were destroyed along with the records. And the loss of human life at the time overshadowed the search for lost paper. A decade later, agencies and archivists say they’re still not completely sure what they lost or found, leaving them without much of a guide to piece together missing history.

See LOST, page 18 Recovered: (Above) A damaged photographer’s proof sheet was found by a recovery worker a few blocks away from ground zero.

events such as the resumption of Major League baseball and a benefit concert at Madison Square Garden important milestones in that journey.

The tone was particularly important for a New York-based comedy show and Letterman nailed it with the raw anger of his opening monologue.

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Nampa native Ron Vauk one of 184 victims at Pentagon The 37-year-old watch commander died a hero

By VICKIE HOLBROOK vholbrook@idahopress.com © 2011 Idaho Press-Tribune

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The last time Dorothy Vauk saw her youngest son he assured her that he would be safe when he served his upcoming two-week Naval reserve duty. “ ‘Don’t worry. The Pentagon is the safest place to be,’ ” Ron Vauk told his mother in July 2001. The building had just been reinforced to make it even stronger.

“And six weeks later, he’s gone,” she said.

Yes, 10 years later, it’s easier to talk about the 9/11 attacks that killed 2,977 people, including 37year-old Navy Lt. Cmdr. Vauk. The Nampa High School graduate and Brady Howell of Sugar City were in the Pentagon when terrorists hijacked a loaded passenger airplane and slammed it into the national landmark. A total of 184 people died at the Pentagon.

The Naval officer was the watch commander on the second day of his two-week tour and was believed to have been on the phone talking to military officers about the attacks on the World Trade Center.

Vauk was supposed to fulfill his annual training in November, but had traded dates because he and his wife, Jennifer, were expecting their second child then and he didn’t want to miss it.

Scrapbook memories for the children

Ronald James Vauk — Jan. 25, 1964 - Sept. 11, 2001 After Lt. Cmdr. Naval Reservist Vauk died, fellow reservist Don Ward wrote this: “His family and community should be proud of him for many obvious reasons. But quite simply ... he died at his post, doing his job, for the love of a country that is just now remembering what it means to be patriotic. God bless Ron and his family and all of the victims of these tragic events.”

Liam was 3 years old on that fateful day. Meaghan was born two months after the attacks on the United States.

But it’s sad, Dorothy said, because his children — 13-yearold son Liam and 9-year-old daughter Meaghan… don’t know their father. After Vauk died, the family learned much about his service in the military. They knew he graduated from the

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Jennifer Vauk and her children Liam and Meaghan visited the Treasure Valley in August. During their visit to Boise, the Vauk family members visited the Idaho Fallen Soldier Memorial where Ron Vauk’s name is listed as one of the 9/11 causalities.

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Dorothy Vauk, mother of fallen soldier Ronald James Vauk, talks about her son’s career at her Nampa residence on Friday, Sept. 2. Vauk was 37 when he died at his post in the Pentagon’s Naval Command Center during the attacks of Sept. 11, 10 years ago.

Naval Academy in 1987 and they knew he completed his submarine training in 1989. They also knew he went on several submarine missions over a five-year period, but most of his service was “classified.” After he died, they learned that he worked on bioterrorism detection systems at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory. They learned after he died that he had served in the Persian Gulf war. He was also one of the youngest people to serve as watch officer at the Pentagon.

“We didn’t know anything about it. He just never talked about it,” the 92-year-old Nampa woman said.

Today, Jennifer still works at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in the neonatal unit. She could not be reached for comment.

“Jennifer is such a wonderful mother and a neat daughter-in-law.

She comes out with the children every year,” Dorothy said.

Nearly 14 and a freshman in high school, Liam looks, and acts, like his father did when he was that age, family members said. During his August visit to Nampa Liam went to the golf course several times with his uncles Chuck and David.

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“He improved quite a bit,� Chuck said proudly as Dorothy shared the news that Liam “made the golf team. They only picked three freshmen and he was one of them.�

Ron also golfed, but loved to play word games.

Scrabble was Ron’s favorite game, and family members frequently saw Ron’s competitive and sometimes mischievous personality in Liam.

As the children have matured, they’ve learned more and more about their father, a hero who received a Purple Heart for his service that day.

Each time Liam visits, he takes home one of the toys that Ron played with as a child. Liam’s also dressed up in his father’s uniforms.

Jennifer had quilts made for both of the children, using Ron’s clothing for the fabric.

Chuck made a large scrapbook of all the articles and mementos relating to Ron’s death. Dorothy gave it to her grandchildren a year ago when Liam asked: “What did they say about my dad.�

It surprised some people that the 1982 Nampa High valedictorian chose the Naval Academy as the place to further his education because in many ways he was not one to conform. On the other hand, Ron tended to plan ahead and he knew the education that he got from the Academy could lay the foundation for a good future.

Ron’s father, Hubert, died in December 2002. He, too, served in the Navy.

A year before the deadly attack, Kevin Shikuma, one of Dorothy and Hubert’s 19 grandchildren, was accepted into the Naval Academy, where Ron had graduated years earlier.

Dorothy is certain that Kevin was accepted because “Ron wrote such a good letter of recommendation.�

The day of the attack Theresa Masterson, the second oldest Vauk child, remembers the day of the attacks. “I was looking at all the carnage and I felt horrible about that. I didn’t think anything about Ron.�

Hours later, when a sister-in-law called and said Ron was missing at the Pentagon, it didn’t make any sense.

She didn’t know he had “switched� his tour of duty and was indeed working at the United States Department of Defense headquarters that day.

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Return flags to full staff President Bush’s order to fly flags at half staff to honor Americans killed in Sept. 11’s terrorist attacks ended at sunset Saturday. The president encourages Americans to continue to fly flags, but no longer at half staff.

Nampa firefighters hold benefit today NAMPA — Nampa firefighters will hold a benefit today at Nampa’s Lakeview Park for the families of their fallen brothers in New York.

A free concert will be held from 1:30 to 6 p.m. and will feature music by Nada Brahma, Reckless, Sparky Parks and the Aardvarks and the Divas. Donations will be collected to add to the $25,000 the Nampa department had raised as of Saturday.

Here’s how you can help the Nampa and Caldwell fire departments’ fund-raising drives: ■In Nampa, drop off checks or cash at any fire station or at City Hall. Donations also can be mailed to: Nampa Firefighters, 1103 2nd St. S., Nampa, Idaho, 83651. The department asks that “New York Firefighters� be written on checks. ■Caldwell donations can be mailed to or dropped off at the station, 310 S. 7th Ave., Caldwell, Idaho, 83605.

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By Vickie Holbrook Idaho Press-Tribune NAMPA — One of Nampa’s sons — Naval Reservist Lt. Cmdr.

Ronald James Vauk — will get a Purple Heart next Friday.

Actually, his wife will receive it in Ron Vauk’s honor because he died serving his country on the day that changed America.

Jennifer Vauk is the mother of his son, Liam, and is expecting their second child.

On Sept. 11, terrorists used

6Q JQPQT CPF TGOGODGT ➤ Mass of Christian Burial will be held at the Arlington National Cemetery Chapel on 12:45 p.m. Saturday. He will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery. A Navy Flag Admiral will present a flag to Jennifer. ➤ A Memorial Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, at St. Paul’s Catholic Church in Nampa by the Rev. Jerry Funke. ➤ In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Ronald James Vauk Benefit Fund at any Wells Fargo Bank. ➤ To read the complete obituary, see Page 5A today.

passenger jets to kill thousands of Americans in four separate attacks on the United States. “His family and community should be proud of him for many obvious reasons. But quite simply ... he died at his post, doing his job, for the love of a country that

is just now remembering what it means to be patriotic,� fellow Navy Reservist Don Ward wrote of his friend who died that day. “God bless Ron and his family and all of the victims of these Courtesy photo tragic events.�

Ron Vauk, right, poses in this family photo with wife, Jennifer, and son, Liam.

Please see Vauk, 7A The Navy Reservist was killed in the terrorist attack on the Pentagon.

Financial fallout not over

Cropduster manual concerns investigators U.S. investigators found a manual on how to operate cropdusting equipment while searching suspected terrorist hideouts, government sources told TIME magazine in an issue that will be released Monday, according to a report late Saturday by CNN. CNN reported that the discovery has heightened concerns among counterterrorism experts that the bin Laden conspirators may have been planning — or may still be planning — to disperse biological or chemical agents from a cropdusting plane normally used for agricultural purposes.

Among the belongings of suspected terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui, sources told TIME, were manuals showing how to operate cropdusting equipment that could be used to spray fast-killing toxins into the air, the CNN report said.

The discovery resulted in the grounding of all cropdusters nationwide on Sunday Sept.

16th, the report said. The dusters have been allowed back up, but are not allowed to take off or land from what traffic controllers refer

➤ Miss Oregon wins crown, 3A ➤ Sensors unnerve motorists, 4A ➤ Idaho eyes terrorism laws, 4A ➤ Black boxes yield clues, 6A ➤ ‘Hijacker’ living in Morocco, 9A

Sept. 11 attacks affect companies large and small

By Robert Tanner Associated Press National Writer

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Sheila Garcia, 8, of Nampa staples another star from a donor to help out in the terrorist attack relief fund Saturday afternoon at the Boys and Girls Club in Nampa. Hundreds of people gathered to support the club and raise cash for the families of firefighters killed or injured during the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center

The flowers never showed in Davie, Fla., and neither did the dinner rush at a seafood restaurant in San Francisco.

Factory workers in Frank- +PUKFG fort, Ky., went ■Text of President home for a Bush’s Thursday address weeklong layto the nation, 14A off, while halibut fishermen in Alaska put their unsold catch in the freezer.

In ways big and small, the economic

ceremonies and similar services on the East Coast. ■There will be a ceremony 10 years later today at the Idaho Fallen Solider he would be found alive in the Memorial, located at the old Ada “I just can’t imagine that one rubble.

County Courthouse, at 6th and man ‌ caused so much misery for But it was eight long days before Jefferson Street in Boise. The the family was notified that Vauk’s thousands and thousands of peoceremony begins at 10 a.m. and is ple,�

Dorothy said four months after body had been recovered. scheduled to conclude at 1 p.m.

He was buried Sept. 29, 2001, at the Navy SEALs killed Osama bin â– The annual Freezeout MemoLaden May 1. the Arlington National Cemetery. rial 9/11 service starts at 1 p.m.

Chuck, the oldest of the nine His wife, Jennifer, accepted the today at Freezeout Hill Memorial Vauk children, was quiet for most Purple Heart in Ron’s honor. His of the recent interview at the Vauk Site off Highway 16.

3-year-old son was given a small, ■The Nampa Chapter of the home. But when the subject shifted polished wooden box to keep his National Society Daughters of the to the mastermind behind the father’s distinguished military American Revolution marked the deadly 2001 attacks he didn’t hide award. anniversary with a specially dehis frustration.

A memorial service that blended signed banner honoring Vauk. “The Navy people promised us faith and patriotism was held â– St. Paul’s Catholic School at Ron’s funeralâ€? that they would Oct. 7, 2001, at St. Paul’s Catholic celebrated the renovations of the get the man behind the attacks. “It Church, where Idaho leaders and Ron Vauk Technology Lab this past took them a long time ‌â€?

Naval officers offered their condoweek. Vauk attended the private “But it was good that they finally lences. school in Nampa. got him, “ Dorothy said, completing The family never sought media ■A tree and plaque at Nampa Chuck’s sentence. attention after Vauk’s death. In High School also honor Vauk, a Matterson said she would like to 1982 graduate. fact, members have been hesitant to speak, and often comment about see the United States get out of Iraq ■The Nampa Chapter of Cathoand Afghanistan. the others who also lost their lives lic Daughters of America gives an “I think sometimes countries that day. Brother Gary Vauk spoke annual $500 scholarship to the have to figure it out themselves. at an Applied Physics Laboratory senior who writes the best essay on We’re spending so much money� to ceremony 10 years ago: a patriotic theme. change countries that have been “When we walk down this diffighting since the beginning of time. ■Vickie Holbrook is managing editor of ficult, dark road, we take comfort the Idaho Press-Tribune. She worked at the knowing that we don’t walk it Anniversary celebrations newspaper when Ron Vauk was a Nampa High alone. Friends and strangers alike from the Pacific to the Atlantic have Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, School student. He was a part-time proofreader.

She can be reached at 465-8110 or vholbrook@ opened their hearts to us ‌ the members of the Vauk family will morning of Sept. 11, 2001, took our attend Treasure Valley anniversary idahopress.com.

Ron, but nothing will ever take the impact he had on our lives.�

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Idaho Press-Tribune readers In this Sept. 11, 2001, file photo, United Airlines Flight 175 collides into the south tower of the World Trade Center in New York as smoke billows from the north tower.

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‘I felt very vulnerable, not just on a personal level, but as a country’ I was pregnant with my first child who was due in November.

I had a doctor’s appointment that afternoon and decided to sleep in since I had the day off of work. My husband had already left for work and ended up calling me during his commute. He said: “Something is happening in New York and no one knows what is going on.”

He told me to turn on the TV and try to find out what was happening. I got up and turned on the TV. The first thing I saw when I turned on the TV was on of the towers on fire. My mind could not comprehend what I was seeing. I mean I knew the towers were on fire but I couldn’t comprehend what was happening.

My husband called again and said there was an attack and no one knew if there were going to be more attacks. He did not want me going to my doctor’s appointment and wanted me to stay home.

I sat in front of the TV the whole day, thinking what kind of world was I bringing my child into? How could I have a baby with so much hate in the world?

I cried most of the day, afraid for myself and for my unborn child.

I felt very vulnerable not just on a personal level, but also as a country. I grew up thinking the USA was unbeatable and it was a very sobering thought to know that we weren’t.

— Alicia Tibesar

‘I think we’ve forgotten too quickly how it felt that day …’

In this Sept. 12, 2001, file picture, firefighters and inspectors look over the damage to the Pentagon in Washington after a hijacked airliner crashed into the Department of Defense building on Tuesday. The dome of the United States Capitol is seen in the background.

I was a kindergarten teacher on that fateful day 10 years ago. I was on my way to work and usually listened to a CD but this morning I decided to listen to the radio.

When I turned it on, I immediately recognized President Bush’s voice, and I could tell something was seriously wrong. He was half way through his speech (that I later found out he was giving at the school he had visited) and was listing off the buildings and cities that were under attack and those that were still believed to be threatened.

I started crying and praying, horrified that my country was under attack. Several other teachers and I gathered to pray for what was happening, and it was all we could do to make it through the day; we had to put on brave faces and smile in front of those sweet little 5-year-olds who had no idea what was going on.

It was so hard not to be glued to the TV in a complete panic. All day long I was sick to my stomach, and then I got home and watched the coverage, only to be sickened even more. I spent that evening in prayer at an impromptu gathering at my church. We just sat around in silence and shock, barely able to utter any words at all.

To this day, the song by Alan Jackson, “Where Were You ...” still gets me, because the one line talks about “teaching a class full of innocent children ...”

As a teacher I have honored September 11th every year in my classroom, showing a Power Point and playing that song for the kids.

This year I’m a stay-at-home mom, but I will still be honoring that day through remembering and praying for those left behind.

Is our country stronger? Yes, in some ways. We got a strong shot of the realities of hatred as well as a large dose of patriotic pride that day. In some ways, however, we are not.

I think we’ve forgotten too quickly how it felt that day, as another country song says, “Have You Forgotten?”

— Janeen Wilson

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remember 10 years ago....

‘I still choke up every time I think of the folks on the plane …”

I was at work typing business letters. When the news hit many people stopped work at their stations and went up to watch the television set. I found myself unable to do that, as I was hit by a flashback to the day President Roosevelt announced the attack on Pearl Harbor.

I was only 8, and even though 60 years had passed I couldn’t move from my desk for a little while, and found I couldn’t talk with my coworkers.

That evening, watching the media replaying the destruction of the planes, the tower and all those people, I froze again. I was surprised at myself for the spontaneous flashback. After that I was angry at everything that both caused and allowed all those people to die on 9/11/01.

And I still choke up every time I think of the folks on the plane who took over and drove it into the ground.

You can’t get anymore patriotic than that, nor any more heroic.

Even as I have written these words and then again as I have proofread them, I’m choked up.

I can’t say the attack on 9/11 “changed my life.” I’m a veteran of the Korean Campaign, and before that I grew up during WWII, so that 15 years of experience has always shaped my feelings and thinking.

My “patriotic pride” has always been strongly based on that time. So the first thing I did when I left work that day 10 years ago was to join the multitude of people who attached American Flags to their car antennae.

Are we a stronger country now? I’d like to think so, but probably not. Most of us have stopped flying flags from our vehicle antennae, including me. As a country we have not done well at learning from our mistakes, and so many mistakes were made that led up to the destruction on 9/11.

If we had “Remembered Pearl Harbor,” just maybe 9/11 might not have happened?

— Irys Gibbons

‘There’s a weird movie … My God. They bombed America.’

I was in Bath, England, for my sister’s 50th wedding anniversary. My family and I had a last walk as we were due to fly home to the U.S. the next day.

My brother-in-law turned on the TV and called out, “There’s a weird movie,” and then hollered “My God. They bombed America.”

All planes were grounded. A few days later we got on the first plane bound for the U.S., half full of stewardesses, all stranded in England.

We landed home in Boise three days later. Coming into Boise we flew over Emmett. My granddaughter Carmen said, “Oh, Grandma, there’s the high school.”

Four days late we were home.

That’s my memory of 9/11.

— Blanche Lytle

In this Sept. 11, 2001, file photo, two women hold each other as they watch the World Trade Center burn following a terrorist attack on the twin skyscrapers in New York.

In this Sept. 14, 2001, file photo, President George W. Bush embraces firefighter Bob Beckwith while standing in front of the collapsed World Trade Center buildings in New York as rescue efforts continue.

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September 11 The Day the World Changed

9/11 Aftermath: 30 days of terror The Idaho Press-Tribune published a collection of the front pages for 30 days after the 9/11 attack. We have compiled a slideshow at idahopress.com that features that collection. We also are publishing a sampling of those pages in this section. Here’s a rundown of the major headlines between Sept. 12 – Oct. 12, 2010: Nampa police officer Stu Hobson was in Washington, D.C., when the attack on the Pentagon occurred. He had just stepped out of the White House after a tour. “It’s like something out of the movie ‘Red Dawn,’� Hobson said. “Our vacation ended when we heard about the attacks. We feel really fortunate they didn’t choose to attack the White House.� Maria Jones of Nampa was on the top of the World Trade Center four days before the attacks.

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Hubert and Dorothy Vauk of Nampa report that their son, Ron Vauk, was on duty at the Pentagon when it was struck by a hijacked plane. They prayed that he survived the ordeal. High school football games went on as scheduled, but NFL and MLB games were canceled.

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Patriotism prevails on local fields.

The Idaho Press-Tribune printed flags and distributed them at the local football games. People show up to root on their favorite team; they express their sorrow for those who lost their lives and proudly display their pride for the U.S.A.

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President George W. Bush preps forces for war.

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Ground is broken for a new Catholic Church in Caldwell. It will be named Our Lady of the Valley. Marsing High School students celebrate the fact that a longdreamed-of skateboard park would finally become reality.

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A week after the attacks, the Nampa and Caldwell Fire Departments had raise $16,000 for families who lost firefighters after the New York attack on the World Trade Center. “The people of this community continue to amaze us with their support and giving.�

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9'&0'5&#; ➤ 266 people died in the four airliner crashes on Tuesday, including: ■92 on American Airlines #11, the first plane to hit the twin towers ■65 on United Airlines #175, the second plane to hit the towers ■64 on American Airlines #77 in the Pentagon crash ■45 on United Airlines #93 when it crashed southeast of Pittsburgh ➤ On Tuesday afternoon, about 2,100 people were reported injured in New York, and at least five had died in hospitals, but 50,000 work at the World Trade Center where the attack occurred. Thousands are still missing.

At least six people were seen falling out of the 1,300-foot towers. ■78 New York police officers and up to 200 New York fire fighters missing. ■100-800 reported missing at the Pentagon. ➤ Today rescuers reported hearing cries for help and other signs of life from the World Trade Center debris.

By Karen Gullo and John Solomon The Associated Press WASHINGTON — U.S. officials began piecing together a case linking Osama bin Laden to the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, aided by an intercept of communications between his supporters and harrowing cell phone calls from victims aboard the jetliners before they crashed on Tuesday.

Authorities were focusing some of their efforts on possible bin Laden supporters in Florida based on the identification of a suspected hijacker on one of the manifests of the four jets that crashed, law enforcement officials said.

The FBI was preparing to search locations in Broward County in south Florida and the Daytona Beach area in central Florida, Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokesman Rick Morera said.

Inside ■Panic-stricken people line up at gas pumps; what happened on Tuesday; President Bush speaks to the country, Page 2 ■City begins massive rescue effort, Page 3 ■Victims, witnesses recount Trade Center attacks, Page 4 ■Defense Chief predicts attacks; Passenger phones in hijack in Pennsylvania crash; Buildings on expert’s short list of targets, Page 5 ■Bin Laden focus of investigators; killing innocent people for political reasons an old tactic; Schools attempt to ease kids’ minds, Page 6 ■Bush heightens security, promises justice; Sorrow gives way to anger across the country; West Bank, Gaza celebrate Tuesday’s terror, Page 7 ■U.S. Flag you can display, Page 8

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By Marti Crutsinger AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON — Tuesday’s terror AP attacks may push the teetering economy Firefighters raise a flag at the World Trade Center in New York on Tuesday after hijackers crashed two airliners into the center, killing thousands of into recession, analysts suggested. The Americans. At top of page, Karen Scienksi cries while praying during a vigil service at the International Church of Las Vegas in Las Vegas Tuesday. The Federal Reserve said it stood ready to church held an open house for people to pray for the victims of the terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. pump extra money into the economy if needed.

The Fed’s promise to supply additional money to the banking system was similar to a pledge it issued on the morning after the October 1987 stock market twin 110-story towers.The deadly calam- 266 people aboard and there were crash. That action was credited with Officials say establishing ity was witnessed on televisions across no known survivors. Officials put the keeping the economy out of recession. analysts, however, said the death toll could take weeks the world as another plane slammed number of dead and wounded at the Fed’sPrivate magic of lower interest rates and into the Pentagon, and a fourth crashed Pentagon at about 100 or more, with ample supplies of cash may not be

By David Crary outside Pittsburgh. some news reports suggesting it could enough to overcome Tuesday’s series of and Jerry Schwartz ‘‘Today, our nation saw evil,’’ President rise to 800. attacks.

AP National Writers Bush said in an address to the nation In addition, a union official said ‘‘The economy has been on a highTuesday night. he feared 300 firefighters who first wire act straddling between a recession NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of He said thousands of lives were reached the scene had died in rescue and anemic growth. Now the terrorists rescue workers today are searching for ‘‘suddenly ended by evil, despicable efforts at the trade center — where have cut the wire underneath our feet,’’ victims in the most devastating terror- acts of terror.’’ 50,000 people worked — and dozens said Sung Won Sohn, chief economist at ist onslaught ever waged against the Said Adm. Robert J. Natter, command- of police officers were missing.

Wells Fargo in Minneapolis. ‘‘The United United States. er of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet: ‘‘We have ‘‘The number of casualties will be States and the rest of the world are likely The entire world is reeling from been attacked like we haven’t since more than most of us can bear,’’ a visibly to experience a full-blown recession the news that knife-wielding hijackers Pearl Harbor.’’ now.’’ crashed two airliners into the World Establishing the death toll could take distraught Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said.

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President Bush orders planes to Gulf. The Ron Vauk family was notified that their son’s body has been recovered from the Pentagon.

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We will not falter.� Mountain Home AFB mobilizes.

Nampan Tom Luna launches his campaign to run for Idaho’s state superintendent of public instruction seat. Caldwell residents plan to start their own YMCA in Caldwell.

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The Boys and Girls Club of Nampa raises $175,000 to keep the doors open. A first-ever Caldwell festival celebrated community spirit and promoted healthy families, youths.

Funds were also raised for Idaho’s Red Cross.

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An alcohol and drug recovery group gathers at Lakeview Park to raise money for the fallen firefighters.

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Local crop dusters grounded as federal agents scour flight-training records.

MCMS lays off 94 workers. The Canyon County Historical Museum marks 25 years.

University of Idaho and Idaho State University announce a plan to build a joint campus in Boise.

Caldwell Mayor Garret Nancolas will run unopposed in November election.

Idaho Power Co. gets the OK to increase rates.

Nampa Police Chief Alan Creech asks City Council for money to buy standardized weapons for the police

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By The Associated Press ➤ Military forces bomb Afghanistan’s capital in daylight for the first time as U.S.-led airstrikes enter fifth day. Story, 9A ➤ President Bush attends somber ceremony at the Pentagon to mark one-month anniversary of the attacks. Details, 9A ➤ Military says an Air Force sergeant killed in equipment accident in Qatar, the first announced American casualty of the war on terrorism. Story, 5A ➤ Government says at least 13 of the 19 hijackers were in the United States legally at the time of the attacks. Details, 9A ➤ Authorities say 4,776 people missing at the World Trade Center and 384 bodies identified. Death tolls unchanged at Pentagon (189) and at Pennsylvania crash site (44).

N.Y. rejects Saudi money New York City officials rejected a $10 million relief check from a Saudi prince Thursday after he suggested that U.S. policies in the Middle East were partly to blame for the World Trade Center attacks.

Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal said in a statement released by his publicist during his visit to the site of the attack in New York: “At times like this one, we must address some of the issues that led to such a criminal attack. I believe the government of the United States of America should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause.�

The comments, which a Saudi spokesman told NBC News “do not represent [the views of] the government of Saudi Arabia,� drew a sharp rebuke from Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. “When we became aware of Prince Alwaleed’s statements, we investigated whether the check had been deposited. The check has not been deposited,� he said in a statement reported by MSNBC. “The Twin Towers Fund has not accepted it.�

MSNBC reported that Sunny Mindel, the mayor’s communications director, said bluntly: “We are not going to accept the check — period.�

U.N.: Taliban led massacres Fighters and commanders of Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban militia have committed systematic massacres in recent years while trying to consolidate control over northern and western Afghanistan, Newsday reported, citing confidential United Nations documents.

The Long Island, N.Y., newspaper said the reports, written by U.N. personnel in Afghanistan, described the mass killings as ordered or approved by the Taliban leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar. U.N. officials who investigated a series of massacres of at least 178 people in January in north-central Afghanistan said they had found witnesses to radio conversations between Omar and the teams of Taliban troops conducting the killings, Newsday said.

Pledge correction Students at schools across the nation will say the Pledge of Allegiance at noon today in the Mountain Time Zone. The time of the synchronized pledge was listed incorrectly in a story on Page 1A Thursday. See details, editorial on pledge effort, 12A.

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Despite multiple warnings, security officers at the Canyon County Courthouse collect nearly 11,000 weapons at the front entrance. Security tightens up even more after the 9/11 attacks.

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A Memorial Mass is celebrated at St. Paul’s Catholic Church for Ron Vauk, a fallen Navy officer who was on duty at the Pentagon when it was attacked by terrorists.

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The U.S. launches missile attacks against the Taliban.

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WASHINGTON — President Bush said Thursday night ‘‘it may take a year or two’’ to track down Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network in Afghanistan, but asserted that after a five-day bombardment, ‘‘we’ve got them on the run.’’ At a prime-time news conference at the White House, Bush said he did not know whether bin Laden was dead or alive. ‘‘I want him brought to justice,’’ he said of the shadowy figure believed behind the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington a month ago.

Bush, at times forceful, emotional and funny, looked confidently beyond his war with the Taliban regime and suggested that the United Nations help rebuild Afghanistan with help from the United States.

He warned other terrorist-harboring nations that they may be next, with an ominous nod to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. ‘‘We’re watching him very carefully,’’ he said of Hussein, defeated by Bush’s father in the Persian Gulf War.The president called the Iraqi leader an‘‘evil man.’’ Bush said that an FBI warning issued earlier in the day was the result of a ‘‘general threat’’ of possible future terrorist acts the government had received. ‘‘I hope it’s the last, but given the attitude of AP the evildoers it may not be,’’ President Bush addresses a one-month anniversary service in remembrance of victims killed during the attack on he said.

America at the Pentagon in Washington Thursday. Ron Vauk of Nampa, a Navy reservist, was among the victims at the Please see Bush, 5A Pentagon. Later, the president addressed the nation during the first prime-time press conference of his presidency.

WASHINGTON — In a stark warning, the FBI said Thursday it has received information there may be additional terrorist attacks inside the United States or abroad in the next several days.

The bureau said its information does not identify specific targets, but it has asked local police to be on the highest alert and for all Americans to be wary of suspicious activity. ‘‘Certain information, while not specific as to target, gives the government the reason to believe that there may be additional terrorist attacks within the United States and against U.S. interests overseas over the next several days,’’ the FBI said in its warning.

President Bush said he had personally reviewed the intelligence that prompted the FBI alert. The intelligence represented ‘‘a general threat on America,’’ he said at a news

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conference Thursday night.

A U.S. intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the government has received an increasing amount of intelligence in the last two days about terrorists plotting to wreak more havoc through this weekend.

The possible threats ranged from attacks on diplomatic sites overseas to possible truck bombs in the United States, the official said.

Amid the heightened cau-

tion, authorities were taking all threats seriously.

In Houston, authorities investigated the apparent theft of 700 pounds of explosives from a storage site. Federal agents said it was too early to tell if the theft from AirJac Drilling Incorporated was terrorist-related.

In a taped interview for ABC’s ‘‘Nightline,’’ Attorney General John Ashcroft said, ‘‘I think the next several days are obviously important partially

because of the environment in which we find ourselves in the initial response period in Afghanistan.’’ Justice Department spokeswoman Mindy Tucker said the department had received new intelligence within the past few days about a potential attack and decided to alert the public as well as law enforcement agencies. ‘‘We realize the importance of the public accurately understanding the kinds of alerts we are sending out to law enforcement,’’ said Tucker.

She said since Sept. 11 the FBI has sent law enforcement agencies five or six alerts. One that urged extra security and vigilance over crop-dusting operations was eventually made public.

It was the FBI’s second request this week that law enforcement move to its highest state of alert. The first was on Sunday.

Thursday’s statement was the first to suggest attacks might occur within several days.

CALDWELL — Former Idaho Migrant Council executive director Humberto Fuentes blasted his firing and that of several other council employees this week and has filed a lawsuit to undo what he calls a coup.

Two council board members and four former employees, including Fuentes, filed a complaint in 3rd District Court Thursday, charging a rigged vote at Saturday’s board meeting in Idaho Falls and a series of illegal personnel actions since. “We’re trying to put some order to the chaotic actions that are happening to this organization,� Fuentes said.

The complaint alleges that two of the 10 board members who voted in the Saturday meeting were not eligible to sit on the board. Imelda Soto was appointed to the board without notice just before the vote to fire Fuentes, the complaint said. It also charges Connie Hernandez, whose son is employed by the council, with violating the antinepotism clause of the council’s by-laws.

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Library replies to critic Panel agrees to examine ‘Family Friendly’ affiliation

By Lane Bettencourt Idaho Press-Tribune NAMPA — Nampa Library Board members responded Thursday to criticism about its policies regarding material that could be inappropriate for children and agreed to reply in writing to concerns from a group of citizens.

The board, meeting for the first time since a group approached the Nampa City Council with complaints about some of the library’s collection, also agreed to look into the merits of guidelines set by a conservative library organization.

A formal request for a response was made to the Library Board by City Councilman Stephen Kren.

At last week’s council meeting, critic Allen Marsh accused the library of offensive behavior for making several sexually explicit books available to patrons — including those under 18.

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Security at the Boise airport intensifies again after U.S. launches strikes against the Taliban.

A month after the 9/11 attacks, U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo discusses the mood in Washington, D.C.

President Bush: “We’ve got them on the run.â€? Unlike our enemies, we value every life and we mourn every loss yet we’re not afraid. Our cause is just, and worthy of sacrifice ‌ We will meet our moment and we will prevail.â€?

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September 11 The Day the World Changed

For presidents, the legacy of Sept. 11 has no end Event defined Bush’s presidency; may decide Obama’s future in office

as Sept. 10, 2001, not even 1 percent of those surveyed said terrorism was the most important problem facBy BEN FELLER ing the country. A AP White House Correspondent month later, that number was 46 WASHINGTON — The counBarack Obama percent. try has moved on. To the presiU.S. president And now? Terdents who lead it, Sept. 11 never rorism is all the way back below 1 ends. percent as the chief concern.

The ramifications of the worst “In some ways, that’s what victerrorist attack in American history is going to look like,� said Ben tory live on, bridging the decade Rhodes, Obama’s deputy national from George W. Bush to Barack security adviser for strategic comObama. munications. He called it a good Two wars. Huge debt. The Guantanamo Bay quandary. The sign that there is “an American people that is resilient, that sees evolving threat of terrorism. The terrorism in a broader context, end of Osama bin Laden. The that sees it as something that hardening of executive power. doesn’t have to dominate their atAnd the remains of fallen soldiers still coming home in flag- tention and our broader discourse.�

Presidents view it differently. covered cases.

They begin their day review“I remember President Bush ing the latest threats from people used to warn people that it was seeking to kill Americans. going to be a long slog,� said ___ Michael Chertoff, Bush’s second On the morning the towers fell, homeland security secretary.

Bush and Obama recognized that “There wasn’t going to be a Battleship Missouri moment. The the world had changed.

One was a new president critical issue for us was to perseestablishing his footing after the vere without being overwrought. most disputed election in AmeriI think that was an accurate can history. The other was a state prediction.� senator in Illinois who was years But persevere for how long? away from being famous.

That is perhaps the biggest “The story of that week is the legacy at the presidential level: a key to understanding my presinew mindset. dency,� Bush wrote recently in his The expectation now is that memoirs. Obama, looking back on terrorists are always plotting to attack America. The realization is Sept. 11 in a book of his own, put that they have succeeded once on it this way: “Chaos had come to our doorstep. As a consequence, a grand scale. we would have to act differently, The old model of security — military might and war overseas, understand the world differently.�

Some analysts of war and law enforcement at home — has politics say it was not Sept. 11 given way to a vastly integrated that forever changed America, but system designed to prevent terrather America’s response to it in rorism across the spectrum. all the choices that followed.

For the public, 2001 seems a The Iraq war, launched on different time. Those maligned what was discovered to be bad color-coded terrorism warnings are gone. So is the utter fear that intelligence, grew out of a postSept. 11 push to contain Saddam the country lived in at the time.

Hussein.

The al-Qaida attacks killed Obama opposed the war in nearly 3,000 people in New York Iraq, then inherited it. He has City, at the Pentagon and in since ended the combat mission Shanksville, Pa. Right before the horror began, and plans to pull out all troops by in a Gallup poll conducted as late the end of this year, although it

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History-making relief effort airs tonight

By The Associated Press and Idaho Press-Tribune staff Uniting screen stars, musicians and television personalities in an unprecedented collaborative effort, 27 television networks will simulcast a special benefit for terrorist attack victims tonight. ‘‘America: A Tribute to Heroes’’ will air from 7-9 p.m. in the Treasure Valley on the major stations — KBCI Channel 2, KTVB Channel 7, KTRV Channel 12 and KIVI Channel 6 — as well as cable networks such as TNT, Lifetime, Comedy Central, HBO and Showtime.

Univision and the Telemundo network also have opted to participate.

Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, Bruce Springsteen, the Dixie Chicks, Ray Romano and Kelsey Grammer have all agreed to participate. It’s believed to be the first time the four major networks have agreed to air the same program simultaneously.

The networks haven’t said whether they will set up their own relief organization for victims of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks or direct viewers to existing groups.

Viewers will be told how they can donate on the show.

The four networks will pay for the event and all of the stars are donating their time.

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Iraq offers aid to U.S. CNN reported late Thursday night that Iraq would be willing to aid the United States in the wake of last week's terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.

"I say, if the Americans asked the Iraqis for their experience, perhaps the Iraqis would agree," CNN reported Thursday, quoting from an official Iraqi news agency release attributed to Saddam Hussein.

Saddam said the offer was "for humanitarian reasons and not for the American government," the report said.

The official statement added: "Yes, the hand of God is on the arrogant and the oppressor, but that does not change our concern for people."

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President Bush holds the police sheild of New York Police officer George Howard, who died while trying to save others in the World Trade Center, during his address to a Joint Session of Congress on Capitol Hill Thursday.

Bush braces nation for war

By David Espo AP Special Correspondent WASHINGTON — President Bush summoned all nations to wage war on terrorism Thursday night and vowed ‘‘justice will be done’’ against those who killed thousands in last week’s attacks. With warplanes and ships on the move, he urged an anxious America to be calm,‘‘even in the face of a continuing threat.’’ Bush issued a series of demands — not open to negotiation or discussion — to Afghanistan’s rulers to turn over Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind of the attacks, and his al-Qaida network.

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‘‘The Taliban must act and act immediately.They will hand over the terrorists, or they will share in their fate,’’ he said.

Bush spoke as American military personnel began moving out from bases around the country, fully aware they could soon be in harm’s way.

Nine days after the suicide attacks that leveled the once-soaring World Trade Center and wounded the

mighty Pentagon, Bush addressed a joint session of Congress and a nationwide television audience counted in the millions. ‘‘Tonight we are a country awakened to danger and called to defend freedom,’’ he said ‘‘Our grief has turned to anger, and anger to resolution.’’ Security concerns were high enough to keep Vice President Dick Cheney away from the Capitol. The 35-minute speech won robust bipartisan applause 30 times.And then, in a vivid display of national unity, the president stepped off the rostrum to embraces from the Democratic leaders of the House and Senate.

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Idaho has joined preparations for a military response to terrorist attacks that killed thousands of Americans on the East Coast.

Mountain Home Air Force Base got deployment orders Thursday for the 34th Bomb Squadron’s B-1B longrange bombers, the Air Force said.

Master Sgt. Renee Nelson confirmed the bombers will be deployed but declined to announce where the planes were headed, or when they might return. Ships and aircraft from across the nation are moving toward the Middle East.

The Bush administration ordered the Air Force to send a mix of air-

craft to the Persian Gulf area, totaling between 100 and 130 planes, a senior defense official said Thursday.

The 34th’s B-1Bs are part of the Air Force’s composite wings, which also includes F-15 Eagles, F-16 Fighting Falcons, and KC-135 fuel tankers.

The B-1, nicknamed the ‘‘Lancer,’’ was built as a long-range bomber but was converted during the 1990s to a strictly non-nuclear role. It was first used against Iraq in 1999.

Idaho’s congressional delegation asked for thoughts to be with those in the military. “Our prayers are behind Idaho’s servicemen and women heading into likely combat tonight from Mountain Home,� U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo said

was Bush who put the U.S. on the path to ending the war before he left office. Iraq and the U.S. may still strike a deal to keep some U.S. forces in Iraq beyond 2011.

On Afghanistan, Obama took the footprint he got from Bush and went the other direction.

He saw this as the necessary and forgotten war, and he tripled the number of forces to blunt the Taliban and target al-Qaida. He has started to pull them home

Thursday. “We have maintained all along how important the role of the B-1 bomber is to our national defense, and it is not a surprise Idaho’s finest are among those on the front line of that defense.�

U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson, who represents the Mountain Home area, called the Idaho base’s personnel “among our nation’s best and brightest.� “I am given great comfort knowing that the men and women (from Mountain Home) will be defending freedom, protecting our nation’s interests, and rooting out terrorism as part of Operation Infinite Justice,� he said.“The people of Idaho are forever proud of them.�

Nampan launches campaign School Board’s Tom Luna seeks Idaho’s top education position

By Brad Hem Idaho Press-Tribune NAMPA — Tom Luna hit the road Thursday to officially begin his campaign for the state’s top education post.

The Nampa School Board member announced his Republican candidacy for state superintendent of public instruction in front of local supporters and politicians at Park Ridge Elementary School.

Afterward, Luna, his wife and their six children began their campaign journey, with a stop scheduled in the 6QO .WPC Magic Valley later Thursday.

Seeks state post By the time he and his family return to Nampa on Monday night, Luna will have spoken to crowds in Idaho Falls, Lewiston and Coeur d’Alene. “I will take my 20 years of successful business experience and balance it with my six years of involvement in education to raise public education in Idaho to new levels of achievement,� he said.

Luna said he has to get busy because he is a relative newcomer to politics outside the Treasure Valley.

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‘Y’ backers venture to Boise center Canyon County residents plan to start own center in Caldwell

By Nathaniel Hoffman Idaho Press-Tribune CALDWELL — Backers of a YMCA in Caldwell want people to look to Boise for inspiration.

Caldwell residents can experience the Downtown Boise Y today as Caldwell moves closer to building a center of its own. The Boise YMCA is helping a Caldwell com- 9JCV mittee to decide if it UJQWNF KV is feasible to build a KPENWFG! similar Y in Caldwell.

Visitors touring the You can visit the Boise center can get recently-renovated a firsthand look and Downtown YMCA in enjoy many activities, Boise today for a including swimming workout and fill out pools, gyms, fitness a survey to help a classes, weightlifting steering commitequipment and other tee determine what features. should be included Caldwell partici- in a Caldwell YMCA. pants are asked to The Boise building is fill out a brief survey located at 1050 W. after their visits to State St. and is open help a steering com- until 10 p.m. mittee determine how a Caldwell YMCA could serve the community best. The survey asks what services and activities — from child care to health screenings — Caldwell residents desire.

Survey results will be released at an Oct. 18 town hall meeting in Caldwell.

Some Caldwell residents visited the West Family YMCA in Boise on Thursday.

Residents have worked on a Caldwell YMCA plan for more than a year. According to Carl Woodburn, a Caldwell Y committee co-chairman, supporters have already raised $60,000 for the initial feasibility study. “I feel that the more this thing goes on, the more people want it,� he said.

now, but the U.S. combat mission is not expected to end in Afghanistan until the end of 2014.

That would be more than 13 years after the terrorist attacks.

Combined, more than 6,000 members of the U.S. military have died in Iraq and Afghanistan. More than 45,000 have been wounded.

The wars have cost roughly $1.3 trillion since Sept. 11, 2001.

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Of course, had the White House not responded aggressively to the attacks or kept after bin Laden, that would have caused outrage, too. “I guess it’s a matter of degree,�

Pfiffner said. “A lot of it was necessary and legitimate — certainly the stuff that’s related to al-Qaida seems justified and important. But I think we went far beyond that, first with the Iraq war and then the creation of a whole lot of new intelligence agencies. It does seem like we went overboard.�

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The signature moment of U.S. success came this year, when American forces killed bin Laden, the mastermind of the attacks, in his Pakistan hideaway.

Obama ordered the raid and phoned Bush with the results. “Good call,� Bush told him. ___ New Defense Secretary Leon Panetta now says the strategic defeat of al-Qaida is within reach.

Yet that is hard to visualize for a country that has grown accustomed to being in a rather constant state of war. “The question that no one has addressed is, how do you know when you’ve won against al-Qaida?� said Joshua Rovner, associate professor of strategy and policy at the U.S. Naval War College in Rhode Island. “When are you comfortable declaring victory? When

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Yet Chertoff, too, spoke of a persistent threat for which an end point will be hard to ever determine. Even if the threat from al-Qaida diminishes, other transnational networks could pose a risk, and the types of potential attacks are changing. “Once they were able to land a significant blow,� he said of al-Qaida, “they’ve set a mark for other groups that will be hostile to the United States, whatever their ideological motivation. We’re just going to have to recognize that we live in a much more fragmented world.�

Obama, in fact, says his biggest concern is no longer a grand orchestrated attack. He told an

interviewer just ahead of the 10th anniversary that he worries of a “lone wolf terrorist.� “When you’ve got one person who is deranged or driven by a hateful ideology, they can do a lot of damage,� the president said. He promised the U.S. will not drop its guard. ___ On Sept. 11, 2011, Obama and Bush will be together at a memorial service at ground zero in New York City.

In the days leading up to it, Obama plans to honor the service of people who have joined the military in response to the terrorist attacks.

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11 redefined sacrifice and duty, Obama says those who have served in this decade of war deserve honor. “How do we honor these patriots — those who died and those who served?� Obama said recently. “In this season of remembrance, the answer is the same as it was 10 Septembers ago. We must be the America they lived for and the America they died for.�

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A decade of change for the military

❛ ... the military is bigger, more closely connected to the CIA, more practiced at taking on terrorists and more respected by the American public. But its members also are growing weary from war, committing suicide at an alarming rate and training less for conventional warfare. ❜

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In the rubble: Firefighters walk through rubble of the World Trade Center buildings on Sept. 11, 2001, after terrorists crashed two airliners into the towers.

LOST, from page 7 The first tangible losses beyond death were obvious, and massive.

The Cantor Fitzgerald brokerage, where more than 650 employees were killed, owned a trove of drawings and sculptures that included a cast of Rodin’s “The Thinker” — which resurfaced briefly after the attacks before mysteriously disappearing again.

Fragments of other sculptures also were recovered.

Trading back to the 1840s The Ferdinand Gallozzi Library of U.S. Customs Service in 6 World Trade Center held a collection of documents related to U.S. trade dating back to at least the 1840s. And in the same building were nearly 900,000 objects excavated from the Five Points neighborhood of lower Manhattan, a famous working-class slum of the 19th century.

The Kennedy negatives, by photographer Jacques Lowe, had been stowed away in a fireproof vault at 5 World Trade Center, a nine-story

building in the complex. Helen Keller International, whose offices burned up when its building, a block from the trade center, was struck by debris, lost a modest archive. Only two books and a bust of Keller survived.

Classified and confidential documents also disappeared at the Pentagon, where American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into it on 9/11.

Afghanistan war A private disaster response company, BMS CAT, was hired to help recover materials in the library, where the jet plane’s nose came to rest. The company claimed it saved all but 100 volumes. But the recovery limited access to information related to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s, as the U.S. prepared to launch an attack a month later.

In New York, CIA and Secret Service personnel sifted through debris carted from the trade center to a Staten Island landfill for lost documents, hard drives with classified information and intelligence reports. The CIA declined to comment.

‘It was modern, It was dynamIc. It was not In perIl’ After Sept. 11, “agencies did not do precisely what was required vis-a-vis records loss,” said David S. Ferriero, the archivist of the United States, in an email. “Appropriately, agencies were more concerned with loss of life and rebuilding operations — not managing or preserving records.”

Jan Ramirez, the curator of the

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During 9/11 coverage, Rather worked hard to keep his emotions in check while on the air for CBS News. It was a grueling stretch that had the veteran anchor, then age 69, awake for 48 hours at one point.

But with Letterman, Rather briefly

National September 11 Memorial & Museum, said there was no historical consciousness surrounding the site before it was destroyed.

“It was modern, it was dynamic. It was not in peril. It was not something that needed to be preserved,” she said.

“Now we know better.”

broke down in tears twice.

“I was just engulfed, consumed by grief,” he said. “I’ve never apologized for that — didn’t then and I don’t now.

Because, one doesn’t apologize for grief.”

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On Sept. 11, 2001, Nathaniel Katz, who grew up in New Jersey,

Transforming the way the U.S. military fights WASHINGTON (AP) — The Sept. 11 attacks transformed the Pentagon, ravaging the iconic building itself and setting the stage for two long and costly wars that reordered the way the American military fights.

Compared with a decade ago, the military is bigger, more closely connected to the CIA, more practiced at taking on terrorists and more respected by the American public. But its members also are growing weary from war, committing suicide at an alarming rate and training less for conventional warfare.

Recovery time The partly gutted Pentagon was restored with remarkable speed after the hijacked American Airlines Boeing 757 slammed through its west side, setting the building ablaze and killing 184 people. But recovering from the strain of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan will take far longer — possibly decades.

The Pentagon’s leaders will have to adjust to a new era of austerity after a decade in which the defense budget doubled, to nearly $700 billion this year.

The Army and Marine

was about as far away from New York as you can get: studying in the Australian capital of Canberra. A friend brought him to a student lounge so he could watch “The West Wing” for the first time. The series was interrupted to show what Katz thought was a private plane crashing into the trade center. He watched as other images filled

opInIons

on the mIlItary

The military as a whole is viewed more favorably by the American public. A Gallup poll in June found that the military is the most respected national institution, with 78 percent expressing great confidence in it. That is 11 points higher than its historical Gallup average dating to the early 1970s.

Corps in particular — both still heavily engaged in Afghanistan — will struggle to retrain, rearm and reinvigorate their badly stretched forces even as budgets begin to shrink.

And the troops themselves face an uncertain future; many are scarred by the mental strains of battle, and some face transition to civilian life at a time of economic turmoil and high unemployment. The cost of veterans’ care will march higher.

Terrorism was not a new challenge in 2001, but the scale of the 9/11 attacks prompted a shift in the U.S. mindset from defense to offense. The U.S. invaded Afghanistan on Oct. 7 in an unconventional military campaign that was coordinated with the CIA.

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the screen. About 30 other people quietly streamed into the lounge behind Katz, the only American.

To the others in the lounge, it seemed like a Hollywood movie. To Katz, it was home. He broke down and cried uncontrollably.

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Teaching kids about 9/11

Wounded: A priest prays over a wounded man at the Pentagon as emergency workers from all services help the wounded on Sept. 11, 2001.

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On

the battlefield

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unmanned aircraft

The new technological star is the drone aircraft, like the Predators that surveil the battlefield and fire missiles at discrete targets. Their popularity has spawned an effort to field unmanned aircraft to perform other missions, such as a longrange bomber and even heavy-lift helicopters.

Watching on September 11 Continued from page 18

“I pride myself on having a fair bit of self-control and I completely lost myself in this situation,” said Katz, now a ministry fellow at Harvard University. “I could feel all these eyeballs in the back of my head.

But I didn’t care.”

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Teaching: Ivy Preparatory Academy sixth grader Colby DeWindt raises her hand as teacher Jacob Cole leads a class in Norcross, Ga., on the 9/11 terrorist attacks

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post-9/11 U.S. military power.

In percentage terms, the biggest growth in the military has been in the secretive, elite units known as special operations forces.

They surged to the forefront of the U.S. military’s counterterror campaign almost immediately after the 9/11 attacks, helping rout the Taliban in late 2001 and culminating in May 2011 with the Navy SEAL team’s raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan. And even though al-Qaida’s global reach has been diminished, the increased role of special operations forces is likely to continue.

(AP) — For most of us, the romance of flight is long gone — lost to Sept. 11, 2001, and hard-set memories of jets crashing into buildings.

We remember what it was like before.

Keeping all our clothes on at security. Getting hot meals for free — even if we complained about the taste. Leg room.

Today, we feel beaten down even before reaching our seats. Shoes must be removed and all but the tiniest amounts of liquids surrendered at security checkpoints. Loved ones can no longer kiss passengers goodbye

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Security: An airline passenger holds his shoes and has an unloosened belt while waiting to go through a checkpoint at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

Parenting in a 9/11 world FAMILIES

That heralded one of the most profound effects of 9/11: a shift in the military’s emphasis from fighting conventional army-on-army battles to executing more secretive, intelligencedriven hunts for shadowy terrorists.

Still in debate is how the Taliban, which had shielded Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaida figures prior to the U.S. invasion and was driven from Kabul within weeks, managed to make a comeback in the years after the U.S. shifted its main focus to Iraq in 2003. That setback in Afghanistan, coupled with the longer-thanexpected fight in Iraq, showed the limits of

(AP) How do teachers handle the daunting task of trying to explain the significance of 9/11 to students who don’t remember when anyone could walk right up to the gate at the airport or when Osama bin Laden wasn’t a household name?

The answer isn’t simple, and it has changed over time as the country’s rhetoric about the attacks has evolved.

Students across the country will gather for assemblies, hold moments of silence and spend history and social studies classes focusing on Sept. 11 this year.

(AP) — David Rand cheerfully acknowledges he’s an overprotective father. An exMarine who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, he’s also a single dad to 5-year-old Emma.

And so when Emma’s grandmother suggested recently that the girl come visit her in Texas, flying from California as an unaccompanied minor, Rand had a blunt reaction: “Heck, no!”

He cites Sept. 11 as part of the reason.

“The images just go through your mind,” he says. “I wouldn’t be able to live with myself if something terrible happened and I wasn’t

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Ashleigh Banfield was working at MSNBC that day, and disregarded a suggestion that she go to the network’s New Jersey headquarters. Instead, she headed downtown in a cab as far as it would take her and then on foot. Banfield was close enough to be enveloped in the black cloud created as the second tower collapsed. A companion kicked

in a nearby building’s door and she sought refuge with a police officer who also was looking for a safe place to breathe. She emerged when the cloud began to lift and flagged down a nearby NBC truck that could film her as she gave reports into a cell phone.

“For whatever reason, I thought all of

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Protective dad: David Rand with his daughter Emma, 5, at their home in Sacramento, Calif.

the buildings were coming down,” she said. “If these two were coming down, what was next? I was so scared. So many people said you were so brave to do that reporting that day and I think just the opposite. I was just so childishly scared.”

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History lesson: Students watch TV footage from Sept. 11, 2001.

T hough it ’s been a decade, just a few states and school districts have a set curriculum for teaching Sept. 11. For the most part, states and school districts leave it up to the teacher, which can mean some students don’t hear about it at all.

L ou isv ille, Ky., f if th-g rade teacher Ca rla Kolodey star ts her lessons with a description of life before Sept. 11. She tells them they can leave the classroom if necessary, then shows them TV footage and newspaper clips of the attacks. She brings i n spea kers who lost a fa mily member in the World Trade Center or who have other personal connections to the day.

“I’ve had kids in tears who have t o st ep out a nd col lec t themselves,” said Kolodey, 31, whose social studies textbook dedicates just one page to Sept.

11.

with her. If she were alone, and it was an attack — the guilt would just be too much.”

Ten years after the attacks, there’s no question that Sept. 11 continues to impact our national psyche, and some of that can be seen in how we raise our children: Tightening curfews, givi ng ch ild ren cell phones to keep better track of them, even barring them from air travel.

R a nd , t he ex-Ma r i ne, now a 31-yearold college student in Sacrame nt o, s ay s his daught er “ h a s n’t AP photo asked” about 9 /11, “a nd I Talking to kids: h ave n’ t v ol - When the time is unteered the right, David Rand i n for m at ion. will tell daughter I w o u l d n ’ t Emma about the want to scare 9/11 attacks. a 5-year-old to death.”

W hen t he ti me is r ight, though, he will tell her. A nd he’s also open to bringing her to New York some day. “The odds of the same thing happening are so remote,” he says.

‘God Bless America:’ A new ritual at the ballpark (AP) — Six days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Major League Baseball returned to the field with a new ritual.

During the seventh-inning stretch, a moment typically reserved for “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” another song played at parks around the country: “God Bless America.”

Everybody sang along, that night and for weeks afterward.

In a World Series that year between the Diamondbacks and the Yankees, one of the most enduring memories came during Game 3 in New York, when 56,000 people at Yankee Stadium joined in a melancholy rendition of the tune as a tattered flag recovered at the World Trade Center site fluttered on a pole above the center field scoreboard.

BaseBall When America was still in shock, baseball was there to help start the healing.

“It sent chills down and a lot of tears,” Commissioner Bud Selig remembered.

“Almost overpoweringly emotional.”

Ten years later, “God Bless America” has become woven into the fabric of baseball. It’s still played every game in the case of two teams, the Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers. But most teams have scaled back, and Los Angeles Angels outfielder Torii Hunter sees nothing wrong with that.

“I think it’s OK to move forward,” Hunter said. “Most ballparks do not play ‘God Bless America’ every game.

But you’ll never forget that day, the people who fell, the people who have fallen in Iraq and Afghanistan since then.”

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“Anytime I walk into an airport, I feel like a victim,” said Lexa Shafer, of Norman, Okla.

“I’m sorry that we have to live this way because of bad guys.”

F r e q u e nt f l ie r s k n o w t h e ever-chang ing set of secur ity rules. Most others don’t.

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Knowing the location of his wife Katherine’s office and the trajectory of the first plane to hit the World Trade Center, Charles Wolf eventually became convinced she was killed instantly on

“ I ’m no t r e a l ly c o nv i n c e d t h at a ny of t h i s s e c u r it y i s d o i n g a ny t h i n g o t h e r t h a n making people feel safe,” said M at t hew Von K lu ge, of C h icago.

But D i a ne D r a g g, of Nor man, Okla., said: “I’d rather do it than be blown up.”

Sept. 11. He never heard from her that morning.

For most people, television that day was a way to experience a terrible story that did not yet involve them. For Wolf, it was a lifeline. TV is where he got his information, learning areas that were set up for possible survivors or places to find

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God Bless America: In this Sept. 17, 2001, file photo, the Colorado Rockies and Arizona Diamondbacks meet in the infield to hold the American flag during “God Bless America” and the national anthem to mark the first game in Denver’s Coors Field, since the Sept. 11 attacks.

out about victims.

“You’re looking for shreds of evidence of whether she’s alive or dead,” he said.

He watched the coverage for hours, even though deep down he knew Katherine’s fate when he saw the north tower collapse.

What grew excruciating was when

networks played key footage over and over, particularly of the second plane hitting the south tower. He has no interest in watching 10th anniversary coverage, which he calls “made-for-ratings television.” Instead, he will attend a public memorial at ground zero.

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Iconic images — Sept. 11, 2001

Lenses shield 9/ll photographers

By The Associated Press

People look at some news photos shot on Sept. 11, 2001, and wonder how those who took them could bear to keep working in the face of such tragedy.

Five whose images of that day became iconic discussed how the photos came about and how their lenses helped shield them from what would come later.

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AP photo by Marty Lederhandler

Marty Lederhandler had pretty much seen and done it all.

Marty Lederhandler

After 65 years with the AP, Marty Lederhandler had pretty much seen and done it all.

In 1937, a year after joining the wire service, he’d helped cover the Hindenburg disaster. Seven years later, Lt. Lederhandler waded ashore at Utah Beach on D-Day, two carrier pigeons stowed safely in his bag to wing his undeveloped film back across the English Channel.

“The only other story that compares to this is D-Day,” he said.

Lederhandler retired three months later.

He died last year at 92.

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Richard Drew

In 1937, he’d helped cover the Hindenburg disaster. Seven years later, Lt. Lederhandler waded ashore at Utah Beach on D-Day, two carrier pigeons stowed safely in his bag to wing his undeveloped film back across the English Channel.

AP photo by Marty Lederhandler

As a 21-year-old shooter for the Pasadena Independent-Star News, Richard Drew was at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968, where Robert Kennedy, fresh from winning the California Democratic presidential primary, was shot.

Drew was one of only four photographers to capture Kennedy’s last moments.

On Sept. 11, Drew was on assignment, when his cell phone rang.

“A plane’s hit the World Trade Center,” photo editor Barbara Woike said.

Drew rushed to the subway and took the No. 2 train to Chambers Street. He took up a position near a line of ambulances to wait for casualties when suddenly a paramedic shouted, “Look! There’s people coming out of the World Trade Center.”

But she wasn’t pointing down the street.

She was pointing up.

“I just sort of clicked into automatic pilot,” Drew recalled, “and started taking pictures of the people falling out of the building.”

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‘The only other story that compares to this is D-Day,’ Lederhandler said.

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Doug Mills

Photographer Doug Mills was covering President George W. Bush on the road on Sept. 11. The day’s first event — a visit with kids at Emma E. Booker Elementary School — proved anything but typical.

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AP photo by Doug Mills

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ICONIC, from page 21 About five minutes into the visit at the school, the classroom door opened, and White House chief of staff Andy Card stepped inside. Mills’ antennae immediately went up: Card almost never attended events like this.

After a few moments, Card walked to the front of the room, leaned in and whispered something into Bush’s right ear. The president’s face went blank.

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AP photo by Daniel Shanken

Amy Sancetta

Ohio-based AP national photographer Amy Sancetta caught a cab and rode down Broadway until a police barricade stopped her from going farther.

By then, the second tower was already smoking. She got out her 80-200 mm zoom lens and began scanning the rows of windows of the south tower for faces.

Suddenly, she heard a thunderous rumbling. She watched through her lens as the tower’s top “kind of cracked and started to fall in on itself.”

She could squeeze off only about a half-dozen frames before the tower disappeared. People were rushing past, buffeting her as they ran pell-mell from the rising debris cloud. She ran about half a block, then turned into a parking garage — just as the cloud whooshed past.

When she finally emerged, she stepped into what looked like a “winter wonderland of debris.” She began picking her way back toward the trade center, shooting as she went. When she heard a second rumble, she lowered her camera and ran.

At last, she reached the office and was able to see what she had: the beginning of the south tower’s end.

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AP photo by Amy Sancetta

AP photo by Amy Sancetta

She got off one more shot before someone nearby screamed, ‘RUN!’

Gulnara Samoilova

Gulnara Samoilova’s apartment was just four blocks from the World Trade Center. She grabbed her camera and a handful of film, and headed into the street.

Entering the south tower, she quickly decided the scene was too chaotic to shoot, and retreated. Back outside, she was standing right beneath the south tower when it began to crumble. She got off one more shot before someone nearby screamed, “RUN!” The force of the collapse “was like a mini-earthquake,” knocking her off her feet. People began trampling her.

“I was afraid I would die right there,” the 46-year-old photographer says. She got up just as the cloud was about to envelop her. She dove behind a car and crouched.

“It was very dark and silent,” she says. “I thought I was buried alive.”

Entering the south tower, Gulnara Samoilova quickly decided the scene was too chaotic to shoot, and retreated.

Back outside, she was standing right beneath the south tower when it began to crumble.

AP photo by Mark Lennihan

AP photos by Gulnara Samoilova

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Finally, World Trade Center rises from ground zero KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press

Ten years of rebuilding

NEW YORK — Ten years after the 9/11 attacks destroyed the World Trade Center, an 80-story glass and steel tower is rising like a phoenix from the ashes of ground zero.

The site called a “hole in the ground” for years has cranes in the air, trains running underground and hundreds of trees planted around giant, man-made waterfalls to remember the dead of Sept. 11.

And the surrounding neighborhood — no longer just a financial district — is bursting with young families, new schools, a Whole Foods and a Barnes & Noble.

Tourists squint and point their cellphones at 1 World Trade Center, once known as the Freedom Tower.

“I’m kind of proud because I was here two weeks after 9/11 and this was a dust pit,” said Larry Brancato, 59, of Wallingford, Conn., walking by ground zero. “It just shows that Americans have always had a can-do attitude.”

After years of inertia, and prolonged disputes between government agencies, an insurer and a developer who had just taken out a 99-year lease on the towers when they were toppled, the development of the trade center is substantial, and the tallest tower can now be seen for miles.

“People can begin to see that this is no longer a hole in the middle of New York, but a real place is emerging,” said architect Daniel Libeskind, whose master plan serves as a blueprint for the site.

A memorial featuring waterfalls cascading into the footprints of the twin towers will open to the public on Sept. 12, a day after families see their loved ones’ names around the pools for the first time. The skyscraper formerly known as the Freedom Tower is growing by a story a week and now stands 1,000 feet above the skyline as the tallest building in lower Manhattan. A transit station and a second office tower also are taking shape.

Critics warned that 1 World Trade would be hard to fill. Who would work in a symbolically loaded building at a location that terrorists had attacked twice? Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer once called the Freedom Tower a white elephant.

It’s looking less like that now that Conde Nast has signed a lease to move its trendsetting magazines like Vogue, Glamour and Van-

The new World Trade Center is rising from ground zero. Two skyscrapers, a memorial, a museum and a transit hub are under construction. Three more towers and a performing arts center are planned.

1 World Trade Center

(Formerly Freedom Tower) 1,776 feet high, 102 stories 2.6 million square feet Construction began April 2006 Scheduled to open in 2013 It will have 69 office floors, a restaurant, an enclosed observation deck and a two-level broadcast facility.

Hudson River

Manhattan World Trade Center site

2 World Trade Center 1,349 feet high, 88 stories 3.1 million rentable square feet The foundation construction began the summer of 2010.

Brooklyn

3 World Trade Center 1,170 feet high 80 stories 2.8 million square feet Construction began summer 2010 The building will include 53 floors of office space and five retail levels.

7 World Trade Center 750 feet high, 52 stories 1.7 million square feet The rebuilt tower opened in May 2006 and is two-thirds leased.

Performing Arts Center 1,000-seat venue with focus on modern dance No construction is scheduled while site is used as an exit from commuter trains.

4 World Trade Center 977 feet high 72 stories 2.3 million square feet It includes retail and commercial office space.

The National September 11 Memorial & Museum Reflecting pools where the Trade Center towers stood Names of 2,987 victims of the 1993 and 2001 attacks will be inscribed around pools in the 8-acre plaza.

The above-ground memorial will open Sept. 11, 2011 and the museum will open in 2012.

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World Trade Center Transportation Hub 800,000 square feet, comparable to Grand Central Terminal It will provide access to PATH commuter rail, subway lines and Hudson River ferries.

It is expected to be completed by 2014.

5 World Trade Center There is no construction timetable yet. It will stand on the site formerly occupied by the remains of the Deutsche Bank building.

Among giants 1 World Trade Center will be among the tallest buildings in the world.

The towering Burj Khalifa was completed last year.

Interna1 WTC World tional New York Taipei Financial Commerce 101 Center 1,776 Centre Taiwan Shanghai Hong Kong Incomplete 1,666* 1,614 1,588

Queens

Petronas Towers Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 1,482

Zifeng Tower Nanjing 1,476

International 1 WTC Willis Finance Tower New York Center Chicago Guangzhou, 1,368** 1,450** China Destroyed 1,439

Burj Khalifa Dubai, UAE 2,717 feet * Top of spire ** Top of roof SOURCES: Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat; Silverstein Properties; The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey

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