Sarah Cooke blinked twice to shake off the glare of the klieg lights, and when she looked back down, it was still there. The object was small and round, and blackened by fire — save for one little sliver of untouched metal that gave off just enough of a glint to make her dig back ...
The events of Sept. 11, 2001, touched every part of America, and Preston County was no exception. Preston County Administrator Kathy Mace was then a county commissioner at home when she got a call to turn on the TV. She went to work and everyone was concerned and full of questions about ...
MORGANTOWN—Westover's Deputy Chief Scott Carl and his wife had just woken up to care for their newborn daughter when they turned on the television and first heard about the attacks occurring at the World Trade Center. At the time, Carl was working for the Morgantown Police Department. At ...
My Sept. 11, 2001, happened, in part, on Sept. 12, 2001. And Sept. 13, 2001. That’s when I began talking to experts in earnest — after everyone was frozen in the amber of that new Day of Infamy. I had to get some words in my notebook. I had to try to assign some meaning to the ...
The morning was already tragic enough, Eddie Campbell Jr. remembered. “Well, then we got the news of the plane going into The Pentagon,” he said, “and that changed everything.” These days, Campbell is superintendent of Monongalia County’s school district. On Sept. 11, 2001, ...
It was a quiet morning. September 11, 2001. Jonathon Vrabel, operations manager for the Dayton International Airport, was chatting in the airport director’s office when a startling bit of video interrupted the conversation. “We’re watching this video of a 767 striking the World ...