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On the morning of September 11th, 2001, I was communicating to work. Long before the days of social media and smartphones, my only connection to breaking news was the radio. I heard an early report that an airplane had struck one of the world's trade center towers in New York City. My first thought was this must have been a small private plane that had somehow lost control.
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