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CHARLES C. SCHROEPPEL, O.D.,P.C. Therapeutic Optometrist 6B Thursday, September 11, 2003 NATO THE BATTALIO Texans find ways to remember 9-11 Volume 846.0377 Walking Distance of TAMU Large & small home Owners, Construction On^^esigivSuillS?^ The beat stop here (Located near Fox and Hound Sports Bar) T. G. I. VAUGHN 505 Universitu Dr. East. Suite 101 • Colleae Station. TX 77840 FORT WORTH, (AP) — From airport workers to school teachers, many Texans who wanted to help when terror struck New York and Washington two years ago now are focusing on remembering the victims, rescue workers and their sacrifices. Officials at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, are plan ning an elaborate ceremony dedicat ing a new fire sta tion to the emer gency workers who died during the attacks on Sept. II, 2001. Representatives from New York City police and Wednesday's editions. Some volunteers plan bring ham and chicken to f stations while others will pa houses, plant trees and perfonr other community service. "I don’t think people are eve ever eomK to / don’t think people are ever, ever going to forget, and quite honestly they should not. — Glen Dallas polio For All Faculty, Staff and Personnel Electronic Parts Company, manufacturer of the Builtsmart line of laptop computers, is offering a limilted allotment of their top of the line laptops at 50% off MSRP to all faculty, staff and personnel. All Computers are brand new, packed in the original boxes, and come with a full manufacturer’s warranty. 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Sept.15th, and we will hold the computers you request on “will call.” 3. You can visit us online at http://www.ePCparts.com and use promo code <SD4432> fire departments and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will lay a wreath at the new station. More than 300 peo ple from the New York City Fire Department were killed after terrorists hijacked passenger airliners and flew them into the World Trade Center. “I'm a fireman, I appreciate what those guys do," D/FW Fire Chief Alan Black told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in brget, and quite te esily they shoui; not,’’ said Glet’ White, a New Yon horn Dallas pol officer who lost! JnMhood friend when the Trad Center collapsed. The anniversari especially meaning in North Texas, wine is home to America: Airlines and to sands of airline v ers and ex-mil personnel. American lost 17 pilots i White officer flight attendants and the subs quent slump in the travel indu: try' was a major factor in th carrier’s brush with bankmptc earlier this year. Diane Johnson’s siste Michele Heidenberger, was r attendant on the Airlines Fligt: 77 that crashed into tl Pentagon. She has tried togeir erate support for a memom being built at the site. NEWS IN BRIEF Grounded freighter still awaits rescue SABINE PASS, (AP) — Crews have finished removing fuel from a 767-foot Croatian freighter that has been stuck in the mud since Aug. 30, the Coast Guard said Wednesday. Commander Roderick Walker told The Associated Press that workers Thursday, weather per mitting, will attempt to transfer the cargo from the Peljesac to another vessel. The fully loaded ship was bound for Canada, haiiic petroleum coke, when it ra' into Tropical Storm Grace. The first step was to “mini mize environmental risk,' according to Walker, who sac the offloading of the fuel was finished late Tuesday. The next step is to unloac the ship which is stuck abou: 1.5 miles south of the Sabine jetties. to a By Je THE UJordi yi 0 mja/yh** -fa) hou/e "fo S&M. , -bUese 12? uh eb ?• rds Cj)iA h^-v/d' 0 X Ljour pb ea,$e~ / -frx.lh ms'Xh rv>&5V\e. nnore -fXs.c^ CLbdvb 19 -hulki'nA uL. Texas A& toward achie university st of 447 new over the ne University P Gates. “The goal to continue tl dent body size and en experience fc Dr. G. Kern b the College “This is the forward I hav 18 years at A The facult dative will in faculty by 25 “(This) is one can take unusual move increase facul cent,” said Newton of Science. The decisk tribute the pi Chi Tf 4 • • A to- ^ Ig-ygs Asso<l.,'g.4,0^ 6, Ass^u^ Spzcilc up- Sp^nk. oof NEW YOR ward at grounc ters, nieces ai daughters of tl ing the 2,792 dead. “My mothi Terzian said a Stephanie Mcl For a secon a bright Septer hijacked jetlin Center, the Pe killing more th attack in U.S. In New Yo showing extrac mous list of v tolled at the near Shanksvi observed at the And President House lawn. “We remer “We remembe Basel By Car THE B Texas A&1\ softball fields from artificial next summer, that has alrea mented at K A&M’s soccer In January