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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
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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
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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
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