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First-person essay: Remembering Flight 93 through the lens of healing ([link removed]) — My name may have been on the deed, but the land itself didn’t belong to me after 9/11. It belonged to the grieving families and the nation.

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Today is September 15.

18 years ago, 2008: Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis. (AP)

63 years ago, 1963: Four Black girls were killed when a bomb went off during Sunday services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. (Three Ku Klux Klansmen were eventually convicted for their roles in the blast.) (AP)

115 years ago, 1911: Allegheny County Commissioner J. Denny O’Neil offered to resign his own office and pay Pittsburgh Mayor WIlliam Magee his remaining salary in exchange for Magee’s resignation. “This I will do to rid Pittsburgh and Allegheny County of this awful menace,” O’Neil said. (Post-Gazette)


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