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Staten Island honorific street namings show price borough paid on 9/11

By Kimberly | Published: March 8, 2014

Tom Wrobleski Staten Island Advance  STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – The 9/11 terror attack on the World Trade Center left its mark on Staten Island in more ways than one. Nearly half of the honorific street namings in the borough over the last 15 years have been done in memory of Island residents who perished in […]

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Story of Flight 93 hero to have a homecoming

By Kimberly | Published: March 5, 2014

Karen D’Souza, Contra Costa Times Mark Bingham became an American hero on September 11, 2001. One of the brave souls who stormed the cockpit of United Flight 93, the Los Gatos man helped save countless lives by sacrificing his own. Now, 13 years later, his story has its homecoming when the documentary The Rugby Player, […]

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Shocking video reveals cockpit vulnerability as widow of 9/11 pilot pushes for improved in-flight security

By Kimberly | Published: February 27, 2014
The suggested secondary barriers include metal bars inside the cockpit doors. Fiona Morrisson/Via Bloomberg News

By Joseph Straw New York Daily News WASHINGTON — A chilling new video  shows how a terrorist could breach an airliner’s cockpit in just two seconds and lock its reinforced door behind him. Cockpit doors were strengthened after 9/11. But Ellen Saracini, widow of United Airlines Flight 175 Capt. Victor Saracini, whose plane crashed into […]

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