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Fueled by the Fallen

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UNIONTOWN – “How could 20 years have passed so quickly?”The words of Pastor Gary Gibson at a solemn ceremony outside Washington Mall to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were undoubtedly said by many people Saturday as Americans in this area and ...

Veterans share experiences of Sept. 11, 2001

September once meant planning for Oktoberfest at the Irwin house.Twenty years ago, then-Peters Township residents Lew and Marcia were getting ready to celebrate in style, with him wearing lederhosen and her a Bavarian barmaid outfit as they welcomed guests for their traditional day of ...

Washington man recalls Pentagon attack

Ret. U.S. Air Force Col. Dennis Daley had settled into his cubicle in the C-Ring of the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, where he served as an Air Force logistics staff officer.Daley, a graduate of Burgettstown High School and California University of Pennsylvania, and a former teacher and wrestling ...

Retired troopers recall Flight 93 response

On Sept. 11, 2001, a 911 call from a United Flight 93 passenger over Mount Pleasant was the first indication that terror had leached into rural Pennsylvania.The caller told a Westmoreland County 911 dispatcher the plane was hijacked. Lt. Jerry Ryan tried to make sense of the call at the state ...

Katie Hostetler was a teenager, a high school kid, when the world – and four commercial airliners – crashed down.It was a brilliant late-summer morning, a couple of weeks into the school year, when evil visited two East Coast cities, then rural Somerset County, 10 miles south of ...