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ELYRIA — Holding an American flag and wearing a Never Forget T-shirt with a picture of the World Trade Center, Lisa McCarty sat at Ely Square on Sunday night remembering the 2,977 victims of 9/11 a decade later. “It’s a time to come together, to bring the community together for that one common denominator,” said [...]
CLEVELAND Cleveland police will proceed with bagpipes at an 8 a.m. Mass Sunday at St. John Cathedral, East Ninth Street and Superior Avenue, in downtown Cleveland. The cathedral’s bells will toll four times beginning at precisely 8:46 a.m. and at the three other times marking the terrorist attacks. Following Mass, at about 9 a.m., police [...]
In reading readers’ reminiscences of 9/11, part of a special section we’ve published today, I kept running across descriptions of a “What’s next?” moment. For Jay Hostetler, an Elyria High graduate who arrived to work at an office across the street from the World Trade Center just before a second airliner struck its towers, the [...]
Far from the horrors of ground zero, or Washington, D.C., or a field in Pennsylvania, where the once-tranquil skies were filled with smoke and fire, in Lorain County the sky remained clear and bright on Sept. 11, 2001. It had the makings of a perfect day until terrorists in hijacked planes ripped away Americans’ sense [...]
George “Bill” Keaton walked into the small Grafton diner and took a seat in a booth just a step or two away from the front door. His beard is a scraggly mix of brown and white and he is wearing blue jeans and a well-worn shirt. He doesn’t look like what one would imagine an [...]
On the morning of 9/11, I was working as a flight attendant on a cross country, red-eye flight from California to JFK International Airport in New York City. We landed in JFK at 8:40 a.m. shortly after the first tower had been hit. The airline I work for, Jet Blue Airways, has televisions at every [...]
On Sept. 11, 2001, the skies were crystal blue, as a pool tempting a swimmer. The air was crisp and fresh. It started out like any other day. At the time, I and a friend were cleaning houses for extra income. The elderly tenants had the television on when the destruction started to unfold. The [...]
Before April 28, 2007, Dave Tollett’s home held just a few telltale signs he was the proud father of an Army man — his son’s basic training graduation photo and action photo from the younger Tollett’s first tour of duty. But after Sgt. Norman Lane Tollett, 30, was killed in Iraq, shot by a sniper [...]
8 a.m. — American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767 with 92 people on board, takes off from Boston for Los Angeles. 8:14 a.m. — United Airlines Flight 175, a Boeing 767 with 65 people on board, takes off from Boston for Los Angeles. 8:21 a.m. — American Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing 757 with [...]
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