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BAGRAM, Afghanistan (AP) — President Hamid Karzai welcomed Monday’s handover of the main American-run prison to Afghan forces as a victory for Afghan sovereignty, though he and U.S. officials remain locked in a dispute over the fate of hundreds of Taliban and terror suspects behind bars. The United States is ... - PAGE B4
September 12, 2012
9/11 ceremonies mark 11th anniversary
NEW YORK (AP) — There were still the tearful messages to loved ones, clutches of photos and flowers, and moments of silence. But 11 years after Sept. 11, Americans appeared to enter a new, scaled-back chapter of collective mourning for the worst terror attack in U.S history.
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Crowds gathered, as always, at the World Trade Center site in New York, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania memorial Tuesday to mourn the nearly 3,000 victims of the 2001 terror attacks, reciting their names and remembering with music, tolling bells and prayer. But they came
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in fewer numbers, ceremonies were less elaborate and some cities canceled their remembrances altogether. A year after the milestone 10th anniversary, some said the memorials may have reached an emotional turning point.
“It’s human nature, so people move on,” said Wanda Ortiz, of New York City, whose husband, Emilio Ortiz, was killed in the trade center’s north tower, leaving behind her and their 5-month-old twin daughters. “My concer n now is ... how I keep the memory of my husband alive.” It was also a year when
politicians largely took a back seat to grieving families; no elected of ficials spoke at all at New York's 3½ -hour ceremony. President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney pulled negative campaign ads and avoided rallies, with the president laying a wreath at the Pentagon ceremony and visiting wounded soldiers at a Maryland hospital. And beyond the victims of the 2001 attacks, attention was paid to the wars that followed in Iraq and Afghanistan. In Middletown, N.J., a bedroom community that See CEREMONIES, Page A3
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Marcio Rodriguez holds a United States flag as he pays respects in front of the construction site of One World Trade Center during the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Tuesday, in New York.
Monterrey students learn ‘what freedom means’ JULIA BERGMAN RECORD STAFF WRITER
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Though none were alive to witness the devastating attacks, Monterrey Elementary students proudly chaning “USA,” greeted local first responders and Vietnam veterans and commemorated the 11th anniversary of 9/11, the happenings of which they have only been told about. At Monterrey, teachers share various details of the event with their students, depending on their grade level, development and cognitive abilities. “Our kindergartners we obviously have to be a little bit more sensitive about what we share with them,” Heidi Shanor, principal, said. But all students at Monterrey this school year have been introduced to the theme of freedom. “Rather than focusing on the tragic event itself and all of the tragedy that occurred with that, the teachers focused more on the freedom,” she said. “We had fifthgraders, fourth-graders, thirdgraders, all the way down to kindergarten, were drawing pictures and
Savannah Trammell, 1 1/2 years old, and students at Monterrey Elementary School cheer on as first responders and Vietnam veterans make an appearance during a flag-waving ceremony on the anniversary of 9-11, Tuesday.
WARRIORS FALL TO RUIDOSO
In the third matchup of the season between the Goddard and Ruidoso boys soccer teams, Ruidoso prevailed in a back-and-forth, high-scoring affair. Coming into the game, Goddard knew that Ruidoso was a tough, but beatable opponent. Having already ... - PAGE B1
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Generation of Learning day care hosts 9/11 observation CHAUNTE’L POWELL RECORD STAFF WRITER
Like many Americans, Marilyn Wagner and Jeri Key remember exactly where they were and what they were doing on Sept. 11, 2001. Wagner recalls getting ready for work that day and looking at the television just as the second plane crashed. Key was filled with panic as she tried to reach her father, who worked on the 69th floor of Dun and Bradstreet. She said thankfully he wasn’t in his office that day, but many of his
friends were, and the events from that day will live with her forever.
While the events of 9/11 were both tragic and horrific, Key and Wagner both want to make sure the day leaves their students at Generations of Learning day care center filled not with fear but with a pride in their country and faith in the heroes that protect it.
Tuesday, the day care center hosted its 11th annual celebration in honor of 9/11. The festivities began with the children singing My Country ’Tis of
Thee, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance as well as the New Mexico pledge, all in an ef fort to stress the importance of having respect for the American flag as well as pride in their country. Key feels that patriotism is slowly becoming a lost art and that instilling it in children is vital. “We really want to instill patriotism in them, because that is sadly lost,” she said. “We think it’s really important and the parents really love the fact See CARE, Page A3
Peachtree Village honors first responders
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Sgt. J.L. Tutor of the Chaves County Sheriff’s Department greets a resident of Peachtree Village during a luncheon celebrating first responders on the anniversary of 9/11, Tuesday.
JULIA BERGMAN RECORD STAFF WRITER
Though Roswell is some 2,000 miles away from New York City, its inhabitants remember as well as any-
one where they were driving on highway 285 just south of Carlsbad, celebrating their mother’s birthday, working in Austin, Texas, on the day of the 9/11 attacks.
On the 11th anniversary of the event, members of Peachtree Village, an independent retirement community, invited area first responders to attend a luncheon, commemorating their service and a day that none will forget. “I just couldn’t believe that anything like that would ever happen in the United States,” said Donna Simmons, whose mother, Pauline Castleberry, lives at Peachtree. “And all the people. I just saw it on TV. I was just devastated. ... I just couldn’t believe the terrorists did that.” And now, she says, it is important for Americans to continue to remember the event. “To me the United States felt stronger after this happened. We’re more alert now on the terrorists See PEACHTREE, Page A3
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Children at Generations of Learning recite the Pledge of Allegiance during an observation of 9/11, Tuesday.
Assaults on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Libya, Egypt CAIRO (AP) — Protesters angered over a film that ridiculed Islam’s Prophet Muhammad fired gunshots and burned down the U.S. consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, killing one American diplomat, witnesses and the State Department said. In Egypt, protesters scaled the walls of the U.S. embassy in Cairo and replaced an American flag with an Islamic banner. It was the first such assaults on U.S. diplomatic facilities in either country, at a time when both Libya and Egypt are struggling to overcome the turmoil following the ouster of their longtime leaders, Moammar Gad-
hafi and Hosni Mubarak in uprisings last year. The protests in both countries were sparked by outrage over a film ridiculing Muhammad produced by an American in Califor nia and being promoted by an extreme anti-Muslim Egyptian Christian campaigner in the United States. Excerpts from the film dubbed into Arabic were posted on YouTube. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton confirmed that one State Department officer had been killed in the protest at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. She strongly condemned the attack See ASSAULTS, Page A2