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A8 The Pantagraph Friday, September 12, 2014 www.p antagraph.com Rachelle Blinder and Jonathan Lemire ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK The gathering war against a new upsurge in Islamic terror hung heavy over the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks Thursday, stirring both anxiety and determination among those who came to ground zero to remember their loved ones. The familiar silence to mark the attacks and the solemn roll call of the nearly 3,000 dead came just hours after President Barack Obama told the country he is authorizing stepped-up airstrikes in Ir aq and Syria against Islamic State extremists. an ongoing war against terrorists. Old ones die out and new ones pop Vasile Poptean said as he left the ceremony, where he had gone to remember his brother, Joshua Pop tean.

we engage them now, a possibility there will be another down the relatives and dignitaries gathered in the plaza where the twin towers once stood, an area of shimmering new skyscrapers, including the soon-to- open One World Trade Center. The attacks were also commemorated in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where former House Speaker Dennis Hastert gave the flag that flew atop the U.S. Capitol on to the Flight 93 National Memorial. At the Pentagon, where Obama spoke at a wreath- laying ceremony, he mention the rise of Islamic State extremists specifically but noted: cannot erase every trace of evil from the was the case before the president said, that remains true Sep 11 Anxiety, determination present in remembrances at ground zero JUSTIN LANE Associated Press A woman pauses at the edge of the North Pool during memorial observances on the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center in New York on Thursday.

Family members of those killed at the World Trade Center read the names of the victims at a ceremony. Joe Mandak ASSOCIATED PRESS SHANKSVILLE, Pa. Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert gave the flag that flew atop the U.S. Capitol on to the Flight 93 National Memorial on Thursday, saying the building might not still be standing if the passengers and crew had not rebelled against four hijackers. Hastert spoke to hundreds of family members, dignitaries and spectators at a ceremony in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where the United Airlines plane crashed on Sept.

11, 2001. Hastert, who was speaker of the House on that day, said the donated Stars and Stripes has smoke smudges from the fire caused by another hijacked plane flown into the Pentagon. that flag would not have been in existence if not for the great heroes who hold in our hearts for ever and he said. Flight 93 was traveling from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco when al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists took control, with the lik ely goal of crashing it into the White House or Capitol. The Commission concluded the hijackers downed the plane in southwestern Pennsylvania as the 33 passengers and even crew members revolted.

Two other hijack ed planes destroyed the World Trade Center in New York. The 13th anniversary of the attacks comes as the National Park Service marks progress on a $17 million to $23 million phase of the Flight 93 memorial. Official hope the project, which includes a center and learning space, will boost the number of annual visitors to the site from 300,000 to more than 500,000. have to make sure there will be a place to come in the future to learn about what Gordon Felt said Thursday. At the ceremony, the victims were posthumously awarded a Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honor.

The medal will be displayed temporarily at the memorial through Sunday, and will be part of a permanent exhibit once the center opens hopefully next year. The same medals are being awarded at the Pentagon and World Trade Center sites. Kenneth Nacke, who lost his brother Louis Nacke on Flight 93, said after the event Thursday that pleased with the ongoing efforts to build the memorial. Yet Nacke said Congress the by not awarding individual gold medals to the ordinary men and women whose courage likely prevented a larger disaster. Hastert donates Capitol flag to Flight 93 site Mark Gillispie ASSOCIATED PRESS CLEVELAND Former President George W.

Bush said Thursday that he had a moment of clarity in a Florida elementary school classroom on Sept. 11, 2001, when his chief of staff told him the second World Trade Center tower had been struck by a jetliner and the U.S. was under attack. A young girl was reading aloud at the time, Bush recalled during a paid appearance at a college scholarship luncheon, an event that coincided with the 13th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. He said he realized that morning that his job was to protect the girl, her family and their community.

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