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Special section inside: The nation 10 years later Parade magazine: Coming together after tragedy New York Times ile photo
Escape from terror
Sacrifices both big and small: 9/11’s local impact By Sheila G. Miller The Bulletin
The tributes today are many, especially in New York City, Washington, D.C., and the open field in Pennsylvania where a plane fell from the sky a decade ago. People across the United States watched on Sept. 11, 2001, as the World Trade Center toppled and the Pentagon burned. And especially on the East Coast, many lost friends and family. In the years since, as the initial shock dissipated and two wars in the Middle East ground on, the events of Sept. 11, 2001, have left an enduring imprint on life in Central Oregon, just as they have throughout the United States. See Impact / A6
A life challenged — and later renewed: Bend woman’s harrowing tale of survival began, but didn’t end, at the twin towers By Lily Raff McCaulou The Bulletin As Wendy Silva waited for an elevator in the lobby of World Trade Center Tower 2, she caught a glimpse of her reflection in the metal door. One day earlier, on Sept. 10, 2001, she’d started a three-week brokerage training course at Morgan Stanley. She was recruited in May, after getting laid off by a software firm. She passed her brokerage exams that summer and was building a client base at her home in Santa Cruz, Calif. Now she stood in a brand-new pair of slingback pumps, a chocolate brown silk jacket tied at the waist, matching pants and a robin’s-egg blue boatneck blouse. It was not how the self-described beach girl was used to seeing herself. She looked official. Important. Like the kind of woman who belonged in the World Trade Center. Earlier that morning, on the bus ride from her hotel near Madison Square Garden, she’d heard the Frank Sinatra song “Fly Me to the Moon.” One of her favorite songs, it was a good omen. It had to be. The 28-year-old was about to get caught in the deadliest terrorist attack in American history. She would endure a harrowing escape and the feared death of her future husband. It would be just the start of a chain of devastation — post-traumatic stress disorder, alcohol abuse, two bouts of cancer, a stem cell transplant. She would slowly rebuild her life and faith to find herself, 10 years later, living in Bend, happier and more at peace than she could have imagined. Dawn was breaking as Wendy stepped into the World Trade Center elevator, and she was filled with an overwhelming sense of optimism. A new day. A new outfit. A new career. She pressed the button for the 63rd floor and rose above Manhattan. See Escape / A4
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INSIDE: No signs of bomb plot, but country remains on high alert, Page A2
Three and a half years after the Sept. 11 attacks, Wendy Silva married and became Wendy Smith. Last year, she moved to Bend with her husband, Alex, her son, Jack, and their dog, Lucy. Wendy escaped the south tower of the World Trade Center minutes before it collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001. She later suffered post-traumatic stress disorder and developed cancer.
Unimaginable assignment: F-16 pilots’ kamikaze mission By Steve Hendrix The Washington Post
Late in the morning of the Tuesday that changed everything, Lt. Heather “Lucky” Penney was on a runway at Andrews Air Force Base
in Maryland and ready to fly. She had her hand on the throttle of an F-16 and she had her orders: Bring down United Airlines Flight 93. The day’s fourth hijacked airliner seemed
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to be hurtling toward Washington. Penney, one of the first two combat pilots in the air that morning, was told to stop it. The one thing she didn’t have as she roared
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into the crystalline sky was live ammunition. Or missiles. Or anything at all to throw at a hostile aircraft. Except her own plane. So that was the plan. See Mission / A4
Before scientists dumped poison into Diamond Lake five years ago, they hoped ridding the lake of millions of non-native tui chubs would stop the state from issuing health advisories for toxic bluegreen algae. The chubs are a small fish likely to have been used illegally as live bait, said Al Johnson, a hydrologist for the Umpqua National Forest. The fish escaped and multiplied, feasting on zooplankton, tiny floating animals that keep algae from growing unchecked, which triggered huge algae blooms. So the scientists were hopeful that an end to tui chubs would also mean an end to the health advisories. They were “overly optimistic,” Johnson now says. See Diamond / A8
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Democrats are expressing growing alarm about President Barack Obama’s re-election prospects and, in interviews, are openly acknowledging anxiety about the White House’s ability to strengthen the president’s standing over the next 14 months. Elected officials and party leaders at all levels said their worries have intensified as the
economy has displayed new signs of weakness. They said the likelihood of a highly competitive 2012 race is increasing as the Republican field, once dismissed by many Democrats as too inexperienced and conservative to pose a serious threat, has started narrowing to two leading candidates, Mitt Romney and Rick Perry, who have executive experience and messages built around job creation. See Obama / A7