Best of: Illinoisans Remember The 9/11 Attacks
Thick smoke billows into the sky from the area behind the Statue of Liberty, lower left, where the World Trade Center was, on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. AP Photo/Daniel Hulshizer
This weekend marks 20 years since the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington D.C., and Pennsylvania. Today on The 21st, we talked about 9/11 from several different vantage points here in Illinois, including with an Illinois native who lost his fiance during the attacks.
This conversation originally aired on September 9, 2021
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Naperville native who lost his fiance, Andrea Haberman, in the 9/11 attacks
Click here to see objects of Haberman donated to the 9/11 Memorial & Museum.
The families who lost loved ones in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have had their grief displayed publicly for 2 decades through televised ceremonies and interviews. Every one of them processed their loss differently. https://t.co/5rsarIV7Lv
— NPR (@NPR) September 9, 2021
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