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Morrie Wiener, a retired United Airlines Captain, looks out at the Flight 93 crash site from behind a fence on the temporary memorial grounds near Shanksville. With him isKathie Shaffer, an oral history project assistant with the National Parks Services. Wiener, of Cherry Hill, N.J., retired on Sept. 1, 2001. If he had not retired, he would have been on Flight 93 the day it crashed.
Remembering 9/11: Shanksville area residents oppose commercialization of Flight 93 resting place
They fired the opening salvo in the war against terror nine years ago, searing the phrase "Let's Roll" into the nation's conscience as a symbol of ordinary people who found the courage to sacrifice their lives to alter the outcome of that dire day. (Today)
Remembering the brave
Remembering those who found the courage to fight back on Sept. 11
More than 1.2 million people from all over the globe have visited the temporary memorial at the Flight 93 crash site in Stonycreek, Somerset County. (Today)
EastScape: the East Xtra Bulletin Board
Hempfield --Friends of Millstein Library, on the Greensburg campus of the University of Pittsburgh, are sponsoring "I Thought I Could Fly," a photography exhibit by Carnegie Mellon University professor Charlee Brodsky. (Today)
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A group of inmates at the Westmoreland County Prison do landscaping Thursday outside the prison.
Prisoners put to work 'outside the fence'
Construction of a retaining wall at Twin Lakes Park, improvements at a football field in Mount Pleasant and regular grass cutting outside the Westmoreland County Prison all have been carried out by nonviolent offenders from the jail. Use of inmate labor has benefited Westmoreland County residents and the prisoners themselves for many years, Warden John Walton said. (09/06/2010)
Westmoreland County Prison
A group of inmates
St. Vincent College priest-professor says school defamed him
An ousted Catholic priest and professor at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe on Friday filed a defamation lawsuit against a number of administrators at the school, claiming that his reputation was ruined when he was falsely accused of viewing pornography on a campus computer. (09/04/2010)
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