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The Angry Jerk is Open for Business Page 14 Vol. 56, No. 47 • September 9 - 15, 2021
September 11th: A Day Americans Promise to ‘Never Forget’
Frederick Douglass Bridge Reopens: New and Improved
As the 20th Anniversary Approaches, Has Unity Given Way to Divisiveness? D . Kevin McNeir WI Senior Editor
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Tuesday, September 11, 2001, began like any other day for most Americans with no one prepared for the cataclysmic events that would occur before some had even finished their morning coffee. Baby boomers, at the peak of their power, continued to maintain bragging rights as America’s largest living adult generation – a distinction which they would not yield to millennials until 2019. Smartphones had not been invented and despite its growing popularity, the internet counted more as a luxury item than an essential with many businesses and most households still without the technological wonder. As adults headed off to work and children boarded buses on their way to school, radios pumped out the sounds of an emerging “girl power” lineup including Destiny’s Child’s “Survivor,” Janet Jackson’s “All for You,” Alicia Keys’ “Fallin’” and J. Lo’s “I’m Real” remixed with the rapping skills of Ja Rule. Still, for all its idealism and promises of justice
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5 Mayor Muriel Bowser with Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen and D.C. officials and supporters walk across the newly-opened Frederick Douglass Bridge as they prepared for the ribbon cutting on Tuesday, Sept. 7. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer) See the story on Page 9.
Hiding in Plain Sight, a 30-Year-Old Hijacking Mystery was Solved on 9/11 Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer A breezy and seasonally satisfying Tuesday, September 11, 2001, began with the promise that beat reporters crave – the knowledge that my story would appear on the front page. Riding high from the previous night after attending Michael Jackson’s 30th-anniversary concert at Madison Square Garden, my editor implored that I go straight to a school in Mount Vernon, New York. She knew how to spoil a great evening watching the greatest pop music entertainer ever reunite 5 Terrorist-controlled airplanes crash into the World Trade
Center in New York City. (Photo courtesy Robert J. Fisch via
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