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“September 11” by Steve O’Connor

Frequent contributor Steve O’Connor wrote the following essay three years ago, on the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. He’s allowing us to post it once again: Seven years ago today, I was teaching a class at Greater Lowell Tech as a few hundred miles south of us, men guided…

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Notes from September 11, 2001

Within days of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, I sat down with a pencil and a yellow legal pad and made some notes about what had happened. There were no blogs back then so I never shared them with anyone. While cleaning out a drawer this summer I found…

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“Unity”

Monument to the University of Massachusetts Lowell community (alumni and family members of alumni) who perished on September 11, 2001: Patrick J Quigley IV, Christopher Zarba, Jessica Leigh Sachs, John A Ogonowski, ’72, Robert J Hayes, ’86, Brian K Kinney, ’95, and  Douglas A Gowell, ’71. Photos by Tony Sampas.

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