Post-9/11 heroic hokum is all smoke, no fire
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In his role as Cap&#39;n Mike Kennedy, the paternal mentor to the Baltimore firefighters whose uncomplicatedly selfless exploits comprise the bulk of Ladder 49, John Travolta asks a reasonable question of these kind of men: What makes them run into a burning
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NEW YORK -- Retiree Gene O'Brien hurried to the World Trade Center site after Sept. 11, 2001, and volunteered to help shuttle supplies to police and fire workers. Some days, his only identification to get into the disaster site was a tattoo on his forearm.
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Americans stood in silence to remember the nearly 3,000 people killed in the September 11 attacks on Tuesday as Osama bin Laden resurfaced to praise the suicide hijackers who carried them out six years ago to the day.
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President Bush and his wife Laura stood in somber silence on Sunday after laying wreaths at the ground zero site where the twin towers of the World Trade Center once stood. They honored the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks on a tour that will take them to all three sites of devastation on the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
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NEW YORK -- The World Trade Center site fell silent four times _ twice each to mark jetliner crashes and the collapse of its iconic towers _ and solemn remembrances were held around the nation Monday to mark the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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The Bush administration was guilty of  reckless disregard by failing to inform New Yorkers of health  risks from toxic air after the collapse of the World Trade  Center in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a leading environmental  group said Wednesday.
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There is no sign that the fire in a government building next to the White House was caused by a terrorist attack, District of Columbia Fire Department spokesman Alan Etter told Reuters on Wednesday.
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A New York City firefighter who responded to the 2001 World Trade Center attack and died last month serving with the Army National Guard in Iraq was remembered Thursday as "the true definition of a hero."
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TOLEDO, Ohio  - There will be no change in the  U.S. terrorism alert level at the moment despite the airing of  a new video tape of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, a White  House official said on Friday.
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TOLEDO, Ohio  - The United States will make no  immediate change in its terrorism alert level following the  airing of a new video tape of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden,  a White House official said on Friday.
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A fire truck prepares to leave after it extinguished a fire, Sunday, 17 Oct, 2004 at Nairobi&#39;s Wilson airport after an explosion shook the building.
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There was no immediate word on the cause of the explosion.
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The main U.S. base in Afghanistan fell silent Tuesday at the moment the first hijacked jetliner struck the World Trade Center. Soldiers bowed their heads in prayer.
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Pilar Albarado spent five months  after September 11, 2001, cleaning pulverized building material  from apartment buildings and offices near the site of the World  Trade Center. A chronic cough came two years later, and she is  also battling asthma, memory loss and acid reflux.
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It's all about 9/11 because these days  everything else is so September 10th.
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How the disaster starts does not matter: It could be a plane crashing into the World Trade Center, it could be the sea receding rapidly ahead of an advancing tsunami, it could be smoke billowing through a nightclub.
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NEW YORK -- Panicked residents fear a partially dismantled building where a recent blaze killed two firefighters and stripped away protective coverings may be releasing some of the toxic contaminants that blanketed the neighborhood on Sept. 11, 2001.