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Amy Moritz
I was a young sports reporter at The Buffalo News at the time, six years into my newspaper career. That week, I was visiting friends in the greater Washington, D.C. area. I had slept in and my friend greeted me… Read More ›
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Brian Moritz
I actually slept through 9/11. That week in 2001, I was working nights at The Times Herald sports department in Olean. Since we published an afternoon paper, most of the staff worked morning shifts to put the paper out. I… Read More ›
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Stacie Sherman
I was working for Bloomberg on 9/11. I was in the New Jersey newsroom at the time, a pretty young reporter covering business. Bloomberg had many reporters and editors in that office back then. What I remember most, after all these… Read More ›
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Jim Hooker
As a reporter for New Jersey Network News on the state’s public television network, the 21st century’s version of the Day of Infamy began like any other routine Tuesday in September: a half dozen or so reporters and assignment staff… Read More ›
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Robert McCarthy
Sept. 11, 2001 remains etched in my memory as a spectacular day. The sun shone brightly, temperature and humidity hovered somewhere in the “perfect” range. So perfect, a run in Delaware Park seemed very much in order No problem on… Read More ›
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Kate Welshofer
There are three things I remember most about covering the events of September 11, 2001: a rude awakening, the deafening quiet, and getting into a fight. I was five years into my journalism career in September of 2001, just a… Read More ›
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Marie DeNoia Aronsohn
I was living at the Jersey Shore, commuting to Trenton by way of Seaside Park where I would drop off my two children at school before my 50-mile drive. It was a break-your-heart blue sky day. As I took a… Read More ›
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Herb Jackson
I was Statehouse bureau chief for The Record in Hackensack, New Jersey, and remember driving down Route 1 to my office in Trenton listening to CBS Radio reporting that the first plane, and then the second one, had hit the towers. I had… Read More ›
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Louis Jacobson
In Washington, D.C., Sept. 11, 2001, began as a gorgeous day — bright and sunny. My wife, a lawyer, had flown out earlier that morning from D.C. to Detroit for a client meeting. I had the TV on when the… Read More ›
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Zack Fink
On the morning of Sept. 11, I was scheduled to fly with New Jersey’s Air National Guard on the final flight of their UH-1N Huey helicopter, which was being permanently retired. At the time, I was a Reporter for New… Read More ›
