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Reporting from Air Force One was routine for veteran journalist Ann Compton. Seen here in the early 1990s aboard the aircraft interviewing Vice President Dan Quayle (top) and President George H. W. Bush (bottom), Compton had no expectation that her assignment to travel from Sarasota back to Washington, D.C., with President George W. Bush on September 11, 2001, would be anything out of the ordinary.
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