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SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 11, 2016
15 years later A new tower now dominates the New York City skyline, a defiant symbol that Americans can be knocked down but always get back up. Memorials honor the dead in NY, at the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania. Like the nation as a whole, New Braunfels today will reflect on and remember the events of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001.
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One World Trade Center towers over the lower Manhattan skyline and the Hudson River in New York.
Local emergency workers remember tension on 9/11 By Dalondo Moultrie The Herald-Zeitung
Most anyone you ask of a certain age knows where he or she was the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, when jetliners crashed into buildings and a field, bringing down structures of stone and steel and shaking the American way of life as we knew it. Though they weren’t in New York City; Washington, D.C.; or Shanksville, Pa., when the images of burning images of the terrorist attacks were broadcast worldwide, some locals still remember the pictures that were seared into their consciousnesses, and they say those mental images likely will last forever. In the latter part of 2001, Darren
While we were responding, my captain was talking to us. If this is what it is, we need to be careful of secondary devices. We were on heightened alert. It turned out to be not much of anything. It was not even a fire but we had a full response rolling.”
By Robin Blackburn The Herald-Zeitung
Fifteen years have passed since the 9/11 attacks shook up the United States and changed the course of world history. For some people, the attacks were half a lifetime ago — and many students in middle school and high school weren’t
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Molly Block writes about how local communities of faith are hoping the anniversary leads to a renewed sense of prayer. SEE PAGE 2A
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Brinkkoeter was an engineer on a ladder truck for the New Braunfels Fire Department. He recalls being at NBFD See REMEMBER, page 7A
even born yet, or were I hope students realize in their infancy, when how much the world we the attacks occurred. live in today has changed Area teachers who were teenagers themselves on due to these events. I also Sept. 11, 2001, reflect on hope students recognize what that day was like for how these attacks them and what it’s like brought together our to teach their students country. about the attacks. Matt Vanderbrook Smithson Valley Middle School teacher
‘A feeling of being close, yet able to do nothing’
Darren Brinkkoeter New Braunfels Fire Department
ALSO INSIDE: Herald-Zeitung photographer Laura McKenzie was in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001 and shares her photos and thoughts. SEE PAGE 4A
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New Braunfels resident David Bounds recalls Sept. 11, 2001 as the day everything changed in the United States. Bounds had retired after a Abby Classifieds Comics Crosswords Forum
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two-decade stint in the Air Force and was a civil service employee overseeing 100 or so others in the Office of Personnel Management. He was just across the river and See PENTAGON, page 7A 8A 2C 10A 11A
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