Calgary Herald

THOUSANDS HONOUR VICTIMS OF 9/11 ATTACKS

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NEW YORK Americans looked back on 9/11 Tuesday with tears and sombre tributes as President Donald Trump hailed “the moment when America fought back” on one of the hijacked planes used as weapons in the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil.

Seventeen years after losing her husband, Margie Miller came from her home to join thousands of relatives, survivors, rescuers and others at the memorial plaza where the World Trade Center’s twin towers once stood.

“To me, he is here. This is my holy place,” she said before the reading of the names of her husband, Joel, and the nearly 3,000 others killed when hijacked jets slammed into the towers, the Pentagon and a field near Shanksvill­e, Pa., on Sept. 11, 2001.

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