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America Under Attack
NI GHTMARE NEW YORK WASHI NGTON I N S. C. CHI LDREN
Terrorists plunge
hijacked planes into
the World Trade
Center towers in
New York and the
Pentagon.
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TI MELI NE
PAGE A2 New Yorkers react
with disbelief:
This is the most
horrifying thing
Ive ever
experienced.
PAGE A4
The toll at the
Pentagon is
extensive. Some
lawmakers say U.S.
intelligence network
has atrophied.
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South Carolinians
react with shock,
anger, worry and
compassion for
victims of the
attacks.
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How do you explain
the tragic events to
children? Here are
some tips on how
to approach each
age group.
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I
T WAS PERHAPS the nations bloodiest day, replayed
again and again on every television screen. The jet
crashes that destroyed the twin towers of New Yorks
World Trade Center the first at 8:45 a.m. Tuesday, the
next at 9:03 began a nightmare that would include an
attack on the Pentagon, an airline crash in Pennsylvania
and a presidents vow to punish those responsible.
Officials were not forthcoming with casualty estimates.
But as the toll rose, it was apparent that Sept. 11, 2001,
could eclipse any other disaster in national memory: the
attack on Pearl Harbor, the casualties of D-Day, the Civil
War carnage at Antietam.
Freedom itself was attacked this morning, President
Bush said.
As smoke billowed from the Trade Center towers, work-
place of 50,000 people, a third hijacked plane slammed
into the Pentagon and a fourth crashed southeast of Pitts-
burgh.
Manhattan, its cityscape altered forever, was evacu-
ated, as were government buildings around the nation,
including the Capitol, the White House and the S.C. State
House.
At Pearl Harbor in 1941, about 2,400 died; in the John-
stown Flood in Pennsylvania in 1889, more than 2,200; in
the Galveston, Texas, hurricane in 1900, about 6,000; at
Antietam in Maryland in 1862, more than 4,700 soldiers.
They were acts of nature and acts of war. But Tues-
days disaster was quickly termed an act of terrorism. To-
day, our nation saw evil, Bush told the nation.
He asked people to pray for the families of the victims
and quoted the Book of Psalms: And I pray they will be
comforted by a power greater than any of us, spoken
through the ages in Psalm 23. Even though I walk through
the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for you
are with me.
From staff and wire reports
By CLIF LeBLANC
Staff Writer
The 6-year-old federal lawsuit
that helped topple the video poker
industry ended Wednesday in a
settlement with the one-time king
of electronic gambling.
As the second trial of
Greenvilles Fred Collins was
about to go to the jury, three for-
mer gamblers who had sued him,
claiming his business had ruined
their lives, settled for an undis-
closed amount
of money.
Of 63 video
poker operators
accused of run-
ning illegal
gambling oper-
ations, Collins
was the only
defendant who
went to trial.
The others also
settled secretly.
Both sides
were tight-lipped after the sudden
agreement ended the weeklong
second trial.
But opposing lawyers agreed
the settlement was for financial
reasons for Collins the cost of
the case; for the gamblers enough
money to reimburse their $20,000
losses in Collins poker machines
and their lawyers fees.
Collins and the three ex-gam-
blers left the Columbia courtroom
before trial Judge Joe Anderson
announced, Im delighted this last
case has been brought to an end.
Settlement talks had been un-
der way for months, said Larry
Richter, one of the gamblers at-
torneys. The handwritten, five-
page settlement provided, the
right equation, Richter said.
Two of Collins lawyers, Jim
Bannister and George Koenig,
agreed it was because of the ex-
pense of the case.
Yet neither Bannister nor
Koenig answered when asked if
Collins settled for fear the jury
would find against their client and
possibly declare him a racketeer.
If found to be a racketeer, Collins
could lose gaming licenses in other
states.
The two lawyers also would not
explain why Collins settled
Wednesday after fighting the suit
since it was filed in 1997. In June,
after a three-week trial, the case
was declared a mistrial. Collins
presented his entire case in a sec-
ond trial this week.
The settlement was reached
moments before Collins legal
team was to make its closing state-
ment to the two-man, six-woman
jury.
Three jurors contacted by The
State declined comment. The rest
left the courthouse without talking
to reporters.
Anderson stressed that the set-
tlement was a private agreement
between the sides and that he did
USC braces for Pollacks encore, Sports
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J
une Bell doesnt remember
when she stopped carrying
9/11 around like a weight
upon her heart.
It must have happened grad-
ually, the school secretary and
mother of three says.
Two years have passed since
that horrific day, and much has
happened since.
American soldiers have mobi-
lized against the terrorists.
New York cleared the rubble
and prepares to rebuild on ground
zero.
Richland 2, where Bell works,
has devised a safety plan in case
of a chemical attack.
And Bell, 63, has begun to com-
pare the fear of another 9/11 with
the Cold War
dread of a Russ-
ian nuclear
strike: That
threat did not
cripple us, and
the fear of ter-
rorism shouldnt,
either.
We adjust,
says Bell, a new
grandmother. I
think thats hu-
man.
Change is the cliche of 9/11.
It has changed us.
Our society has changed.
Not so, says Bell, who consid-
ers herself a practical person who
tries to see things as they are.
Her life has not changed be-
cause of 9/11.
Her life has adjusted.
The Richland 2 school day is
essentially like it was before the
planes struck the towers.
Thats normal and thats good,
Charleston psychologist Bonnie
Cleaveland says. She sees no need
for anyone to feel bad for not feel-
ing worse on the second anniver-
sary of 9/11.
People have a sense that oth-
ers suffered and are still suffering
because of 9/11, but that its not
touching them personally, Cleave-
land says. But feeling guilty about
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within his congregation since the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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Alex and Irina Ponomarev moved from
Russia to the United States after Alex
felt a calling to the ministry.
Bell
MORE INSIDE ON 9/11
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T
HE REASON TERRORISTS will
never destroy America is found
in the hearts of people like Alex
Ponomarev.
Ponomarev, 54, born in Russia
and a Columbia resident for seven
years, is one of Americas
newest citizens.
On Aug. 29, he took the
oath of citizenship, fulfilling a
longtime dream.
After the oath, he and the
other new citizens recited
for the first time the Pledge
of Allegiance.
It was such a strange mu-
sic, Ponomarev says with de-
light. All of us, saying the
pledge, in the accents of our
old countries.
We were all there, such a
mixture so different! But
now, we were Americans! That
is what makes America strong.
When terrorists flew jetlin-
ers into the World Trade Cen-
ter and the Pentagon on Sept.
11, 2001, Ponomarev had been in
America since 1993. He was six
years into the process of applying for
citizenship.
But the attacks didnt shake his
resolve to become a citizen.
That was not even a thought, he
says.
Now, after taking the oath, he
feels even closer to the United States.
A new feeling came over me, a
feeling of home, he says. I felt like
I was a new person.
Ponomarev is the latest in
a long line dating to the
Mayflower pilgrims who
risked all to come to a place
where they are free to think,
speak and worship as they
like.
His odyssey is a true story
of America, says Ken
Wingate, a member of Colum-
bias First Presbyterian
Church, where Ponomarev,
his wife, Irina, and daughter,
Mila, worship.
Irina, 47, also is preparing
to become a citizen. Their
daughter, Mila, 17, a junior at
Ben Lippen School, automati-
cally became a citizen when
her father did.
In Russia, Ponomarev and his
family enjoyed a privileged life. But
he never felt comfortable able to
speak his mind.
John
Monk
News
Columnist
jmonk@
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chooses America,
feels its saddest day
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By LINDA A. JOHNSON
The Associated Press
More golden years do not
cost the health care system more:
Whether people are healthy at age
70 and live independently for
many more years or are sickly and
die sooner, their medical costs are
about the same, federal re-
searchers say.
The findings have big implica-
tions for taxpayers, because they
suggest the outlook for the
Medicare program as Americas
baby boomers grow old is not as
dire as some policy-makers feared.
Given projections saying the
baby boom generation will bank-
rupt the Medicare trust fund in
about 25 years, politicians and
economists have wondered
whether the increasing longevity
of healthier senior citizens would
increase or reduce Medicare
spending.
The answer is neither, say re-
searchers at the National Center
for Health Statistics.
They found medical expenses
from age 70 until death averaged
$140,700, with little difference be-
tween active, long-lived senior cit-
izens and disabled ones except
for those already in a nursing
home.
The basic lesson of our study
is that although healthy people live
longer, they dont cost more in the
long run, said Jim Lubitz, acting
chief of the Aging Studies Branch
in the statistics centers Office of
Analysis, Epidemiology and Health
Promotion.
Improving health should be
the overall goal of our health care
policy, but its not going to save
the Medicare system.
Sandra Decker, a researcher at
the International Longevity Cen-
ter-USA, said Medicare costs will
rise because of the sheer number
of beneficiaries, not their longer
life span.
It means, yes, well spend
more on Medicare, but maybe not
as much more as we thought, she
said.
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By SAM F. GHATTAS
The Associated Press
BEIRUT, Lebanon The first
video image of Osama bin Laden
in nearly two years was broad-
cast on al-Jazeera television
Wednesday the eve of the sec-
ond anniversary of the Sept. 11
attacks.
The al Qaeda leader was
shown walking through rocky
terrain with his top aide. Both
were carrying assault rifles.
In an eight-minute audiotape
accompanying the video footage,
a speaker identified as bin Laden
praises the great damage to the
enemy Sept. 11 and mentions
five hijackers by name. On a sec-
ond tape, a voice said to be that
of chief deputy Ayman al-Za-
wahri threatens more attacks on
Americans and calls on Iraqi
guerrillas to bury U.S. troops.
According to experts, such
tapes reassure al Qaeda sympa-
thizers that the terror network is
still a force and its leaders still
active and in seeming good
health. A tape showing bin
Laden would be crucial to that
effort, and the timing a day
before the anniversary of the
9/11 attacks, blamed on al Qaeda
highly symbolic.
Al-Jazeera said the tapes
were produced in late April or
early May, but the Arab satellite
channel did not say how or when
it obtained them. The backdrop
in the video resembled the bor-
der regions between Afghanistan
and Pakistan, where U.S. offi-
cials believe bin Laden is hiding
out.
U.S. intelligence officials will
review the tapes to try to deter-
mine if they are authentic and
when and where they were
made, officials in Washington
said.
The voice identified as bin
Laden praises the Sept. 11 hi-
jackers, calling them true be-
lievers who should become an
ideal for other believers. Those
men caused great damage to the
enemy and disturbed their
plans.
He makes no direct threaten-
ing remarks, but the voice said
to be al-Zawahri threatens more
attacks on Americans.
What you saw until now are
only the first skirmishes, al-Za-
wahri allegedly says. The true
epic has not begun.
The video image of bin Laden
appeared to be the first since he
was shown at a dinner with as-
sociates on Nov. 9, 2001, in
Afghanistan. That tape was
made public a month later.
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Q
UESTION: How many peo-
ple died?
A
NSWER: At the World
Trade Center: 2,645 died on
the ground; 87 passengers
and crew members died aboard
American Airlines Flight 11; 60
passengers and crew members
died aboard United Airlines Flight
175. Ten hijackers (five on each
plane) also died. At the Pentagon:
125 died in the building; 59 pas-
sengers and crew members died
aboard American Airlines Flight
77. Five hijackers also died on the
plane. In Shanksville, Pa.: 40 pas-
sengers and crew members died
aboard United Flight 93. Four hi-
jackers also died on the plane.
In memorializing the victims,
the government does not include
the hijackers in the victim tolls.
Q
UESTION: How many of
the 2,792 victims of the
trade center attacks have
been positively identified through
their remains?
A
NSWER: About 55 percent
of the victims have been
identified. The medical ex-
aminer hopes to make 1,700 to
1,800 identifications in all about
60 percent to 65 percent al-
though future advances in DNA
technology might yield more. More
than 12,000 unidentified body
parts are being stored. Those re-
mains will be kept at a memorial
at the site.
Q
UESTION: Have all the vic-
tims families been com-
pensated? Whats the
timetable?
A
NSWER: Families of those
killed and injured in the at-
tacks are eligible for com-
pensation from a fund set up by
the federal government. The dead-
line to apply is Dec. 22. Families
agree not to sue the airlines in ex-
change for compensation.
About 2,200 families have ap-
plied for compensation from the
fund; about 1,700 eligible families
have yet to apply.
The fund has paid out more
than $565 million so far, with an
average payout of about $1.5 mil-
lion. Payments so far range from
$250,000 the minimum payment
under the law to $6.8 million.
Awards are based on variables
such as the victims projected life-
time income, how many children
the victim had and the amount of
money available from other
sources such as life insurance.
Q
UESTION: Whats the
timetable for rebuilding at
ground zero?
A
NSWER. N.Y. Gov. George
Pataki has called for con-
struction on the first build-
ing to begin next summer. He
wants the structural steel for the
first building, the 1,776-foot Free-
dom Tower, to be in place by
Sept. 11, 2006, and he wants the
building to be completed and
ready for occupancy in 2008. But
it might take longer.
Q
UESTION: What are plans
for memorials at the three
sites?
A
NSWER. At ground zero,
officials say the memorial to
the victims of the Sept. 11,
2001, attacks and the Feb. 26,
1993, attack on the World Trade
Center will be the centerpiece of a
redeveloped trade center. A 13-
member jury will select the design
for the memorial out of 5,200 sub-
missions. The finalists will be
made public, but the jury will not
solicit opinions from the public.
At the Pentagon, victims will
be remembered outside the mas-
sive Defense Department head-
quarters by a grove of trees, 184
lighted pools and benches en-
graved with the names of those
who died. The two-acre memorial
will be 165 feet from the point of
impact, directly along the flight
path taken by the jetliner that was
crashed into the building. The
benches represent those killed in
the building and in the hijacked
jetliner, excluding the hijackers.
At the Shanksville, Pa., crash
site, the National Park Service will
lead a federal commission in de-
signing a memorial. President
Bush has ordered the design be
completed and delivered to the In-
terior Department and Congress
by 2005. A design competition will
begin next year.
9/11: TWO YEARS LATER
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is seen in this image
Wednesday from Al-Jazeera television. The station said the
footage was made in late April or early May.
Bin Laden tape airs
on Arab TV network
Q&A
By CHUCK CRUMBO
Staff Writer
The business of war shows
no sign of letting up at S.C. mil-
itary installations two years af-
ter 9/11.
Fighter pilots still are flying,
the Coast Guard still is pa-
trolling Charleston Harbor and
Army soldiers and Marines are
graduating from Fort Jackson
and Parris Island.
We basically see ourselves
between deployments, said Lt.
Col. Les Carroll, spokesman for
the 169th Fighter Wing at McEn-
tire Air National Guard Station.
Our whole mission is when
were not deployed, to be ready
for the next deployment.
The Air National Guard unit,
which flies F-16s, has been
called up twice since 9/11 to
fight in Afghanistan and later in
Iraq.
Today, though, wont be like
any other day at some bases.
The chapel at Sumters Shaw
Air Force Base will be open for
airmen who want to offer their
prayers. Parris Island, home to
the Marine Corps Recruit Depot,
also will keep its chapel open.
Charleston Air Force Base
will hold a memorial ceremony
at its headquarters, complete
with a 21-gun salute, at 8:46 this
morning the time the first ter-
rorist-piloted jetliner crashed
into the World Trade Center.
At the same time, the routine
continues:
700 recruits will become
Marines when they receive the
Eagle, Globe, Anchor pin dur-
ing a ceremony at Parris Island.
250 recruits will graduate
from nine weeks of basic train-
ing at Fort Jackson.
Charleston airmen will load
tons of supplies and equipment
on C-17 transport planes flying
to Afghanistan, Iraq and air
bases in the Persian Gulf region.
On average, 15 missions a
day are flown by C-17s into the
gulf region, said spokesman
Staff Sgt. Jason Smith.
Military spokesmen said they
dont see any letup in the near
future.
The S.C. National Guard,
which has 2,500 soldiers on ac-
tive duty, plans to send 30 more
to help train Afghanistans new
army.
Lt. Col. Pete Brooks said no
departure date has been set for
the soldiers, members of the
45th Enhanced Brigade.
About 1,200 Guard members
are stationed in Iraq. Nearly
1,000 are assigned security mis-
sions at military installations
and government buildings in the
United States. The Guard also
has troops in Kosovo and
Bosnia, supporting U.S. missions
in eastern Europe.
The Army Reserve, which
has called up about 1,100 South
Carolinians, already has notified
some unidentified units that
theyll be rotating troops into the
gulf region through 2004, a
spokesman said.
Although all of its jets are
home, Shaw has 500 airmen de-
ployed around the world, in-
cluding the Persian Gulf. The
airmen are performing a variety
of jobs, from communications to
maintaining aircraft.
About 650 airmen based at
Charleston also are overseas,
Smith said. About 500 of them
are in the gulf region, including
100 at bases in Iraq. The 16th
Airlift Squadron is at Rhein
Main Air Base in Germany,
planning C-17 missions into the
gulf region.
The Marine Corps Air Station
at Beaufort hasnt stopped send-
ing planes and Marines over-
seas, said spokesman Master
Sgt. Terrence Peck.
Presently, only two of Beau-
forts nine Marine and Navy
F/18 fighter squadrons are at
home.
McEntire has 54 Guard mem-
bers on active duty, most de-
ployed overseas, Carroll said.
The group includes air traffic
controllers, communications
technicians and security forces.
The Coast Guard, the lead
agency in providing security
along the U.S. coast, has 270 ac-
tive-duty personnel based in
Charleston, and another 80 re-
servists on active duty.
Reach Crumbo
at (803) 771-8503
or ccrumbo@thestate.com.
S.C. troops still on
move 2 years after 9/11
it doesnt make the day not hap-
pen.
Were not meant to grieve
something and stay with that griev-
ing forever.
But if we are letting go of 9/11
the way we let go after the death
of a beloved relative, we still must
find a place for the day in our lives.
Like the memories of those we
have lost, we carry it with us.
How though? How have we ad-
justed?
In countless ways, it turns out.
Some obvious. Some less so.
PEOPLE ... HAVE
MORE EMPATHY
In South Carolina and much of
the nation, for many people, the
fear and anger that 9/11 sowed has
bloomed into far different emotions.
Master Sgt. Andy Plair joined
the Air Force nearly 22 years ago,
so his deployment to Southeast
Asia from February to July was
nothing new for him.
It was also nothing new for his
wife, Vanessa, his daughter, Sarah,
13, and his son, Andrew, 9, who
periodically must learn to live with-
out him at Shaw Air Force Base.
For Vanessa Plair, it means,
among other difficulties, figuring
out how to shuttle both children to
softball and baseball games when
they start at the same time 15
miles apart.
But this last deployment was
different. This was the first time
her husband has flown off since
9/11, and people reacted differently
to the news of their prolonged sep-
aration.
Before, they behaved as if his
time away was just part of his job.
Now, her family has noticed a
deeper level of concern, and not
just from military families.
In the schools, the teachers
seem more aware, she says.
Even my childrens peers; they all
wrote to my husband this time.
People I meet in the street in gen-
eral seem to have more empathy.
They are more thoughtful and
thankful for those who serve and
the sacrifices they make.
Its something she just didnt
see before 9/11, she says.
The Rev. Calvin Griffin, rector
at St. Lukes Episcopal Church in
downtown Columbia, notes a sim-
ilar phenomenon within his con-
gregation a seemingly subcon-
scious desire to appreciate others,
to flock together.
I can see it at the coffee hour,
after the liturgy on Sunday, he
says. People stick around to talk
more since 9/11. Now we have to
flick the lights to signal the hours
over.
Yes, he says, we have been able
to turn the violence of the day into
something good that has far out-
lasted the initial shock of the
shared experience.
How are we doing this?
PRECAUTION,
PREPARATION
Perhaps the key is feeling safe.
Safe among family. Safe with
our faith. Safe in the hands of oth-
ers who dont have the luxury of
letting a day go by without think-
ing about 9/11.
Perhaps many of us havent
stockpiled water and duct tape in
our basements per Department of
Homeland Security recommenda-
tion because we feel others are
taking more useful precautions
against another potential terror at-
tack.
In South Carolina, these peo-
ple are working all around us, qui-
etly protecting us.
Take Ernie Ellis, in charge of
public safety at USC. He keeps re-
minders of 9/11 on his desk, in-
cluding a model of the Manhattan
skyline from before the towers
fell.
His work is most visible on
game day. When the Gamecocks
are playing at Williams-Brice, El-
lis team is checking every bag
toted into the stadium. But hes do-
ing more, more he doesnt want to
talk about so he doesnt tip off any
potential troublemakers or alarm
fans who have a right to relax and
have a good time.
Its sort of like an iceberg, El-
lis says of his work. The part the
public sees is only the tip.
At Palmetto Health Richland
hospital, Dr. Stephen Shelton is
also a professional troubleshooter.
I sit down and think about
what bad things can happen, he
says. Thats basically my job.
Since 9/11, as chairman of the
emergency management commit-
tee for Palmetto Health, Shelton
has presided over the stockpiling
of masks and suits that can pro-
tect hospital staff from everything
from anthrax to sarin gas. His hos-
pital has installed a decontamina-
tion station that can wash haz-
ardous material off as many as 100
people an hour.
And back in the Richland 2 dis-
trict, June Bells boss, superinten-
dent Steve Hefner, is meeting reg-
ularly with firefighters, law
enforcement and health officials
to figure out the best ways to safe-
guard his 19,000 students should
terrorists choose to target them.
Bell sees the preparations
around her. Shes not ignoring
them. Shes not ignoring the an-
niversary of the terrorist attacks.
As Bell watched the horrific
video of office workers hanging
out of the burning World Trade
Center this weekend, the power-
ful grief welled up the same as it
did on Sept. 11, 2001.
But she cant walk around like
that all the time, she knows.
It is a day to remember, she
says. But it hasnt changed me
except for the sorrow I feel.
Reach Markoe
at (202) 383-6023 or
lmarkoe@krwashington.com.
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Major events since the
attacks of Sept. 11, 2001:
January U.S. unemployment
rate reaches 6 percent for the
first time since November 1996
December S.C.
unemployment rate reaches
6 percent for the first time
since August 1994
July U.S. unemployment rate
reaches 7 percent, the highest
since March 1994
June S.C. unemployment rate
reaches 6.4 percent, the
highest since April 1994
Sept. 7 President Bush asks
Congress for $87 billion for
continuing postwar operations
in Afghanistan and Iraq
Aug. 15 Libya admits guilt in
1988 Lockerbie airliner
bombing
2002
2003
2001
SOURCES: Information Please Almanac;
BBC; Knight Ridder Tribune; The Associated
Press
Oct. 5 Anthrax letters begin
arriving; five killed
Oct. 7 U.S., British begin air
attacks against al-Qaeda,
Taliban in Afghanistan
Sept. 12 Hijacking plot traced
to al-Qaeda terrorists
Aug. 19 U.N. Baghdad office
bombing kills 23
July 7 Bush admits intelligence
on Iraq weapons was faulty
July 22 Saddam Husseins
sons Oday and Qusai die in
firefight
July 24 California gubernatorial
recall election scheduled for
Oct. 7
Aug. 7 Liberian President
Charles Taylor resigns, leaves
country Aug. 11
Aug. 12 New suicide attacks
begin in Israel
Aug. 14 U.S., Canada power
failure puts 50 million in dark
April 2 U.S. commandos
rescue captured Pfc. Jessica
Lynch in Iraq
April 24 North Korea says it
has nuclear bomb
April 30 U.S. proposes road
map for Palestinian-Israeli
peace
March 20 Operation Iraqi
Freedom opens with bombing
aimed at Iraqi leaders
March 21 Shock and awe
bombing begins
March 15 Severe acute
respiratory syndrome (SARS)
breaks out in East Asia
Feb. 1 Space shuttle Columbia
breaks up during re-entry
Feb. 18 South Korean subway
suicide attack kills 133
Feb. 27 World Trade Center
memorial design chosen
Feb. 5 U.S. Secretary of State
Colin Powell presents Iraq
weapons evidence to the
United Nations
May 1 Afghanistan military
operations end
May 31 1996 Olympic
bombing suspect Eric Rudolph
arrested
May 1 Bush declares military
phase of war over, U.S. victory
Nov. 12 Airliner crashes in
Queens, N.Y., kills 260
Dec. 2 Enron files for
bankruptcy
Dec. 9 Taliban rule collapses
Dec. 22 Hamid Karzai
becomes new Afghan leader
Dec. 22 Richard Reid arrested
on airliner with explosives in
shoes
Jan 10 Taliban, al-Qaeda
prisoners sent to Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba
Jan. 2 12 European nations
start using euro currency
Jan. 29 President Bush calls
Iraq, Iran, North Korea axis
of evil
July 21 WorldCom bankruptcy,
biggest in U.S. history
Oct. 2-24 Washington, D.C.-
area sniper attacks
Nov. 8 Unanimous U.N. Security
Council resolution: Iraq must
disarm or face serious
consequences
Nov. 14 Chinese leader Jiang
Zemin retires, succeeded by
Hu Jintao
Nov. 18 Iraq lets U.N. arms
inspectors return
Oct. 12 Terrorist bomb in Bali,
Indonesia, kills 202
Oct. 23-26 Chechen terrorists
take 763 hostages
in Moscow theater
Sept. 13 Six al-Qaeda terrorist
suspects arrested in New York
Nov. 25 U.S. Department of
Homeland Security created
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9/11: TWO YEARS LATER
ADJUSTING
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Ernie Ellis, head of public safety at USC, says much of his preparation isnt visible to the public.
Ellis received this figurine
of New York City
firefighters from a fellow
employee.
Bush wants to expand
anti-terrorism powers
WASHINGTON President
Bush, in a speech marking to-
days anniversary of the Sept. 11,
2001, terrorist attacks, called on
Congress Wednesday to untie
the hands of our law enforce-
ment officials by expanding au-
thorities ability to probe and de-
tain terrorism suspects.
Hailing the passage of the
2001 USA Patriot Act, which ex-
panded federal police powers,
Bush said those changes did not
go far enough. He called for em-
powering authorities in terrorist
investigations to issue subpoe-
nas without going to grand ju-
ries, to hold suspects without bail
and to pursue the death penalty
in more cases.
Under current federal law,
there are unreasonable obstacles
to investigating and prosecuting
terrorism, obstacles that dont ex-
ist when law enforcement officials
are going after embezzlers or
drug traffickers, Bush said at the
FBI Academy in Quantico, Va.
In endorsing an extension of
the Patriot Act, Bush plunged
into a contentious issue on the
eve of the Sept. 11 remembrance,
which Bush has proclaimed Pa-
triots Day. By endorsing an ex-
pansion of police powers, the
president put himself at odds
with a number of Republican
lawmakers who have joined De-
mocrats in an effort to scale back
part of the original Patriot Act.
The Washington Post
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home lenders sought
WASHINGTON Treasury Sec-
retary John Snow asked Congress
Wednesday for a stronger gov-
ernment hand over the mortgage
companies Freddie Mac and Fan-
nie Mae, saying we cannot be
complacent about the economi-
cally vital housing market.
Snow opened a partisan debate
over homeownership for low-in-
come people by asking lawmakers
to shift financial regulation of the
two government-sponsored com-
panies to his Treasury Department
from the Department of Housing
and Urban Development.
The administration proposal he
put forward would widen the gov-
ernments authority over the two
biggest players in the multitrillion-
dollar home mortgage market,
whose stock is widely traded.
Bush reappoints
two Fed officials
WASHINGTON President Bush,
who in April said he wanted Alan
Greenspan to stay on as Federal Re-
serve chairman, has gone further to
ensure continuity at the central bank
by nominating Roger Ferguson for
a second term in the Feds No. 2 job.
Bush also announced Tuesday
he tapped Fed Governor Ben
Bernanke for a full 14-year term
on the seven-member Fed board.
3Com slashing jobs,
farming out work
MARLBORO, Mass. 3Com
Corp. expects to cut 1,000 of its
3,300 jobs as it hires others to han-
dle all its manufacturing and dis-
tribution and closes a plant in
Dublin, Ireland, to save money.
Flextronics of Singapore and Ja-
bil Circuit of St. Petersburg, Fla.,
will take over global distribution
within six months, 3Com said
Wednesday. 3Com also said it will
open a facility in Taiwan in No-
vember to design low-end products.
3Com fell 29 cents to close at
$5.66.
Levi Strauss cutting
up to 650 more jobs
SAN FRANCISCO Facing pres-
sure to lower the prices of its
clothes, jeans maker Levi Strauss
& Co. said Wednesday it will cut
up to 650 sales and administrative
jobs in the United States and Eu-
rope to slash its expenses.
The cuts represent 5 percent of
Levis worldwide work force of
12,500 employees and continue an
overhaul that has eliminated thou-
sands of Levis jobs.
In other business news:
Shanghai Airlines ordered five
Boeing 757-200s, the first order for
757s since 2001.
Len Lauer, 46, has been ap-
pointed president of Sprint Corp.
but will remain president of its
Sprint PCS wireless unit.
Allan M. Siegal, 63, who led The
New York Times internal inves-
tigation into the Jayson Blair pla-
giarism scandal, has been ap-
pointed its first standards editor.
Church & Dwight Co. agreed
to buy Unilevers U.S. toothpaste
and toothbrush brands, including
Pepsodent and Aim, for $109 mil-
lion to $116 million.
The European Union slashed its
economic growth forecast for 2003
yet again Wednesday, adding to
pressure on the European Central
Bank to cut interest rates.
First-half profits for Frances
Bouygues SA construction com-
pany were euro130 million ($146
million), up 12 percent excluding
a euro337 sale last year.
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc.
will open a doughnut-making re-
tail store within a Wal-Mart Stores
Inc. Supercenter in Mount Airy,
N.C., in October as part of a test.
World oil production grew 1 per-
cent in August, led by a partial re-
vival in Iraqi output, the Interna-
tional Energy Agency said, but low
inventories in major importing coun-
tries threaten to make prices volatile.
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Staff and Wire Reports
Several major airlines are of-
fering fewer flights on the second
anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks
as a result of weak demand.
At Columbia Metropolitan Air-
port, airlines scheduled four or five
flights fewer than the 54 daily
flights that would normal for Sep-
tember, said Lynne Douglas, mar-
keting director.
American Airlines, United Air-
lines, Continental Airlines and
Lufthansa Airlines said Wednes-
day they plan to reduce flying.
A few carriers, however, said
Thursdays bookings are higher
than a year ago, perhaps because
the economy appears to be in bet-
ter shape, the country is not on the
verge of a military invasion and
fears have diminished.
Continental said it plans to can-
cel 13 of its roughly 2,200 scheduled
daily flights on Thursday, all de-
parting from Newark International
Airport. Newark was the departure
point for United Flight 93, the San
Francisco-bound jetliner that crashed
in Shanksville, Pa., on Sept. 11, 2001.
American and United planned
to reduce flights, but not as much
as last year.
Lufthansa, Germanys largest
airline, canceled four Sept. 11
flights to the United States.
We think its because its not
a day where people go on business
trips and have business meetings,
spokeswoman Katrin Haase. Its
more of a memorial day. The air-
line still has 24 flights scheduled
to the United States.
Delta Air Lines and US Airways
said bookings were higher this
year on Sept. 11 than on the first
anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
Many flights canceled
on 9/11 anniversary
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OreMuni 12.35 +.03 -2.9
ReEEq 21.14 -.29 +7.5
STBond 8.67 +.02 -.8
SmlCap 21.72 -.56 +11.8
Specl 17.82 -.44 +6.5
Commerce Funds:
Bond 18.77 +.08 -2.5
Comstock Partners:
StratO t 3.9 +.03 -6.7
CG Cap Mkt Fds:
IntlEq 7.96 -.11 +9.2
LgGrw 10.39 -.18 +8.6
LgVal 9.02 -.13 +2.4
SmGrw 11.83 -.34 +15.3
Credit Suisse Comm:
CapAp 14.2 -.26 +5.2
Credit Suisse Tr:
SmCoGr 12.6 -.35 +14.6
Davis Funds A:
NYVen A 24.04 -.26 +3.2
FinclA 31.7 -.25 +4.7
Davis Funds B:
NYVen B 22.98 -.25 +3.0
Davis Funds C & Y:
NYVenY 24.34 -.26 +3.3
NYVen C 23.13 -.25 +3.0
Delaware Invest A:
DecEIA p 15.64 -.16 +2.8
SelGrA p 19.3 -.46 +4.6
TrendA p 17.38 -.40 +7.2
TxPaA p 7.99 +.01 -3.3
TxUSA p 11.26 +.02 -2.7
Delaware Invest B:
SelGrB t 17.98 -.42 +4.4
Del-Pooled Trust:
IntlEq 14.04 -.09 +6.2
Dimensional Fds:
IntSmVa 10.5 -.06 +13.6
TMUSSm 16.07 -.38 +15.4
USLgCo 29.67 -.35 +4.0
USLgVa 15.01 -.26 +5.3
USLgVa3 11.63 -.20 +5.4
US Micro 11.92 -.26 +17.6
US Small 15.04 -.33 +14.4
US SmVa 20.7 -.45 +16.0
IntlSmCo 10.04 -.04 +11.9
EmgMkt 11.03 -.02 +12.6
Fixd 10.32 +.01
IntVa 11.01 -.09 +10.1
Glb5FxInc 10.9 +.04 -2.3
TMUSSV 17.06 -.40 +15.0
TMIntVa 9.88 -.08 +10.3
TMMktwV 10.34 -.22 +6.7
2YGlFxd 10.08 +.01 -.1
DFARlE 17.28 -.25 +6.5
Diversified Funds:
CoreBond 12.74 +.05 -2.1
EqGrwp 16.65 -.20 +4.7
GroInc p 16.03 -.21 +3.0
Val&Inc 20.23 -.22 +3.2
Dodge&Cox:
Balanced 68.15 -.47 +3.6
Income 12.9 +.04 -1.3
Stock 102.67 -1.12 +5.7
Domini Soc Inv:
SoclEq 24.96 -.33 +4.7
Dreyfus:
A Bond 14.02 +.07 -2.2
Aprec 34.32 -.16 +1.4
BsicS&P 21.11 -.25 +4.0
CalTx r 14.61 +.04 -3.7
Discp 27.36 -.36 +3.0
Dreyf 8.79 -.12 +3.4
DryMid r 21.03 -.44 +8.6
Dr500In t 29.7 -.35 +3.9
EmgLd 33.96 -.80 +9.4
GNMp 14.85 +.04 -.8
GMBd r 13.19 +.03 -3.7
GrInc 13.21 -.20 +3.1
IT Inc 13.13 +.06 -1.1
Intermr 13.43 +.03 -2.7
MdcpVl r 23.85 -.52 +10.1
MunBd r 11.61 +.03 -3.3
NY Tax r 14.91 +.03 -3.4
ShIGv 10.94 +.02 -.4
Dreyfus Founders:
DiscvF p 23.78 -.47 +14.5
GrwthF p 9.08 -.18 +5.1
Dreyfus Premier:
BlncdA p 11.63 -.09 +1.4
CoreBdA 14.79 +.06 -1.3
CorVIv p 24.62 -.39 +3.4
EmgMktA 14.46 -.02 +14.9
NJMuniA 13.03 +.05 -3.9
NwLdA 40.91 -.81 +5.1
ST IncD 11.54 +.01 -.2
SI MuBdD 12.94 +.01 -.1
ThrdCnZ 7.21 -.11 +3.4
ValueB 15.47 -.22 +1.8
WWGrB t 26.98 -.21 +2.7
Dupree Mutual:
KYTF 7.58 +.02 -1.9
Eaton Vance Cl A:
TMG1.0 458.34 -5.51 +3.7
HlthSA p 9.75 -.15 +5.1
InBosA 6.11 +4.3
TMG1.1 18.94 -.23 +3.6
TMG1.2 8.5 -.10 +3.5
TradGvA 9.49 +.01 -2.0
Eaton Vance Cl B:
GvtOblB t 8.18 +.01 -2.1
HlthSB t 10.46 -.15 +4.9
HiIncB t 4.91 +4.8
NatlMB t 9.88 +.03 -1.0
SCMB t 10.09 +.01 -1.6
TMG1.1 t 17.97 -.22 +3.3
Eaton Vance Cl C:
FloatRt t 9.78 +1.4
GovtC p 8.17 +.01 -2.1
TMG1.1 p 17.25 -.21 +3.4
Eclipse Funds:
IdxEq 23.46 -.28 +4.0
EndwBd 16.87 +.08 -1.7
Enterprise Cl A:
CapAA p 27.19 -.40 +6.3
EqIncA p 20.06 -.27 +2.9
GvSecA p 12.69 +.06 -1.1
GwthA p 14.86 -.12 +1.0
HYBdA p 9.46 +.01 +2.1
IntlGrA p 11.78 -.17 +5.7
Enterprise Cl B:
GwthB p 14.1 -.11 +.9
Evergreen A:
BalanA 7.63 -.06 +1.8
BluChpA 21.43 -.33 +3.3
CorBdA p 10.82 +.05 -2.1
EmgGroA 4.36 -.09 +10.7
AdjRateA 9.58 +.01 +.2
HiInMuA 8.64 -.1
HiYldA 3.34 +2.3
LgCoGA t 5.61 -.11 +5.3
MunBdA 7.28 +.02 -3.0
OmegA 21.39 -.44 +10.5
Evergreen B:
AdjRateB t 9.58 +.01 +.1
EmgGroB t 4.13 -.08 +10.7
FoundB 15.12 -.13 +.9
OmegB t 19.22 -.39 +10.3
Evergreen C:
AdjRateC t 9.58 +.01 +.1
OmegaC t 19.27 -.39 +10.3
Evergreen I:
AdjRtIS p 9.58 +.01 +.3
CorBdI 10.82 +.05 -2.1
CorEqtI 54.9 -.77 +4.2
EqIncI 19.99 -.30 +2.9
EqIndxI 37.92 -.45 +4.0
AdjRateI 9.58 +.01 +.3
EvrgrnI 10.9 -.18 +2.9
GrowthI 14.99 -.40 +14.0
SelHYBdI 9.33 +1.7
IntlEqI 6.81 -.07 +7.4
IntMuBdI 59.9 +.17 -2.6
LimDurI 10.42 +.02 -.2
NCMuniI 10.35 +.03 -3.1
PAMuBdI 11.47 +.02 -2.3
ShtIntBd 6.17 +.02 -2.2
SpecVal 21.32 -.31 +9.8
StkSelI 12.13 -.15 +4.2
StrGroI 22.71 -.29 +4.3
StrVal 19.16 -.24 +1.0
USGvtI 10.07 +.03 -1.8
Excelsior Funds:
BlendEq 30.49 -.38 +4.9
Energy 13.53 -.16 +1.7
PanEuro 7 -.05 +4.8
STGvSec 7.21 +.01 -1.0
ValRestr 30.25 -.52 +6.2
FAMFunds:
Value 38.67 -.47 +5.0
FBR Funds:
AGas 12.32 -.02 +.3
FMI Funds:
Focus 30.1 -.68 +12.0
FPA Funds:
Capit 33.69 -.64 +11.6
NwInc 11.3 +.03 +3.7
Federated A:
AmLdrA 20.42 -.27 +1.8
CapApA 21.82 -.27 +3.3
EqInA p 14.38 -.11 +1.2
GrStratA 23.47 -.58 +7.7
HiInBdA x 7.71 -.04 +3.2
KaufmA p 4.64 -.05 +14.0
MuSecA 10.6 +.02 -3.3
MuniUltA 2.02 -.1
US GvtA 7.85 +.02 -.2
Federated B:
ALdrB t 20.4 -.26 +1.6
Bond B 8.96 +.03 -1.2
CapAppB 21.26 -.27 +3.1
EqIncB 14.37 -.11 +1.0
HiInBB tx 7.7 -.04 +3.0
KaufmB p 4.59 -.05 +13.6
StrIncB 8.4 +.01 +.3
USGvB t 7.85 +.02 -.3
Federated C:
ALdrC 20.4 -.27 +1.6
Federated F:
AmLdrF 20.39 -.27 +1.8
GISI F 9.01 +.03 -1.6
Federated Instl:
GnmaIS 11.29 +.03 -.5
Gov2-5I 11.56 +.03 -1.7
GovUltra 1.99 +.3
Hi Yld 5.81 +2.6
IncTrS 10.49 +.03 -.3
Kaufmn 4.64 -.05 +13.7
MaxCapI 20.51 -.25 +3.9
MaxCapS 20.46 -.25 +3.8
MidCap 17.11 -.35 +8.6
MunULA p 2.02 -.2
StockTr 30.39 -.40 +1.9
TotRetBd 10.71 +.04 -2.2
UltraShrt 1.9 +.1
UltShtBd 1.9 +.2
Fidelity Advisor A:
EqGrA t 40.93 -.94 +7.7
EqInA p 22.82 -.25 +3.8
MdCpA p 19.08 -.24 +6.4
Fidelity Advisor B:
DvGthB t 10.24 -.07 +1.7
EqGrB 39.19 -.90 +7.5
EqInB 22.88 -.25 +3.6
GrOppB 25.69 -.39 +4.9
HiInAdv t 9.13 -.01 +4.0
MidCpB p 18.6 -.23 +6.2
Fidelity Advisor C:
EqGrC p 39.78 -.91 +7.5
Fidelity Advisor I:
DivGthI 10.6 -.06 +2.0
EqGrI 42.97 -.99 +7.9
EqInI 23.34 -.25 +3.9
IShIGv 9.74 +.02 -1.4
Fidelity Advisor T:
BalancT 15.32 -.08 +1.8
DivGrT p 10.44 -.06 +1.9
EqGrT p 41.19 -.95 +7.7
EqInT 23.08 -.25 +3.7
GroIncT 15.04 -.17 +3.4
GrOppT 26.36 -.41 +5.1
HiInAdT p 9.18 -.01 +4.1
IntBdT 11.31 +.05 -2.0
MidCpT p 19.23 -.24 +6.3
OvrseaT 13.78 -.16 +13.0
STFiT 9.56 +.01 -.7
SmlCpT p 17.99 -.43 +11.0
ValStraT 28.5 -.96 +19.3
Fidelity Freedom:
FF2000 11.56 -.03 +.4
FF2010 12.57 -.06 +1.9
FF2020 12.2 -.11 +3.9
FF2030 11.95 -.13 +5.0
FF2040 6.94 -.08 +6.0
Income 10.95 -.02 +.1
Fidelity Invest:
AggrGr r 13.62 -.24 +7.1
AggIntl 13.68 -.14 +11.3
A Mgr 15.09 -.03 +1.1
AMgrGr 13.61 -.06 +1.9
AMgrIn 11.81 -.07 +1.7
Balanc 15.39 -.19 +4.0
BlueChGr 36.89 -.48 +4.3
Canada 23.45 -.16 +7.4
CapAp 21.71 -.51 +10.8
CpInc r 7.77 +.01 +3.2
Contra 44.68 -.54 +7.0
CnvSc 18.76 -.14 +2.2
DestI 11.21 -.17 +4.5
DestII 10.19 -.06 +2.7
DisEq 20.61 -.26 +3.5
Discovery 9.6 -.05 +2.7
DivIntl 21.17 -.17 +9.7
DivGth 25.28 -.16 +2.0
Eq Inc 45.25 -.55 +4.1
EQII 20.57 -.35 +3.8
Europe 22.58 -.16 +6.8
Export r 16.28 -.25 +4.1
Fidel 25.49 -.33 +3.9
Fifty r 18.3 -.35 +2.5
GNMA 11.15 +.03
GovtInc 10.18 +.05 -3.5
GroCo 46.71 -1.11 +10.2
GroInc 33.1 -.27 +1.9
HighInc r 8.63 +.02 +3.0
Indepn 14.95 -.28 +4.4
InProBd 10.78 +.05 -3.6
IntBd 10.65 +.04 -2.0
IntGov 10.28 +.04 -2.2
IntGr 20.67 -.21 +11.1
InvGB 7.51 +.03 -2.1
JpnSm 8.56 +28.1
LargCap 12.75 -.19 +4.4
LevCoStk 16.03 -.31 +11.3
LowP r 31.52 -.50 +11.7
Magelln 90.2 -1.02 +2.9
MidCap 19.57 -.50 +7.5
MtgSec 11.29 +.04 +.2
NwMkt r 13.23 +.08 -.9
NwMill 27.27 -.68 +7.6
OTC 29.91 -.79 +14.0
Ovrsea 27.53 -.31 +13.2
Puritn 17.06 -.12 +2.3
RealE 21.55 -.31 +6.5
STBF 9.01 +.02 -.4
SmCapInd 15.83 -.26 +9.5
SmllCpS r 14.93 -.27 +14.7
SEAsia 12.74 -.14 +20.8
StkSlc 19.26 -.27 +4.1
StratInc 10.1 +.02 -.4
Trend 44.98 -.60 +3.9
USBI 11.22 +.05 -2.2
Utility 10.68 +.02 -2.1
Value 55.04 -.97 +5.9
Wrldw 14.62 -.18 +8.9
Fidelity Selects:
Biotch r 52.2 -1.28 +8.5
Comp r 32.93 -1.34 +16.4
DvCmr 14.73 -.60 +17.5
Electr r 37.37 -1.80 +17.8
FinSv r 102.16 -1.69 +3.0
Food r 40.66 -.04 +2.4
Gold r 26.95 -.35 +19.8
Health r 113.72 +.23 +2.0
Multmd r 44.62 -1.15 +11.2
Paper r 26.92 -.49 +8.3
Softwr r 46.01 -1.50 +10.7
Tech r 55.02 -2.05 +15.2
Telcmr 28.74 -.43 -.1
Fidelity Spartan:
CA Mun 12.46 +.03 -3.2
CTMun r 11.75 +.04 -3.1
EqIdx 35.94 -.43 +4.0
ExtMkIn 24.51 -.51 +10.5
500In r 69.98 -.84 +4.0
FL Mu r 11.64 +.03 -3.4
GovIn 10.94 +.05 -3.6
IntmMu 10.17 +.02 -2.1
InvGrBd 10.77 +.04 -2.1
MA Mun 12.14 +.04 -2.9
MI Mun 12 +.03 -3.0
MuniInc 13.05 +.03 -3.2
NJ Mun r 11.67 +.04 -3.2
NY Mun 13.17 +.04 -3.3
Oh Mun 11.92 +.03 -3.2
StIntMu 10.5 +.01 -.7
TotMktIn 27.26 -.38 +5.4
Fifth Third Inst:
EqIndx 19.36 -.23 +4.0
IntBd 10.14 +.04 -2.5
QualGr 14.64 -.34 +7.7
ST Bd 9.78 +.01 -.4
First Amer Fds Y:
CoreBd 11.42 +.05 -2.4
EqInc p 11.75 -.13 +3.5
EqIdxI p 18.99 -.22 +4.0
IntBd 10.31 +.04 -2.1
IntTF p 11.12 +.03 -2.5
Intl 9.15 -.09 +9.4
LgCpGrOp 23.86 -.34 +5.3
LgCpVal p 15.2 -.18 +2.8
MCpGrOp 35.42 -.78 +9.8
STBnd 10.24 +.02 -.5
SmCpSel 15.41 -.34 +12.6
SmCpVal 14.47 -.34 +11.6
TxFr 11.13 +.05 -2.7
First Eagle:
FndofAmY 22.21 -.19 +4.3
GlblA 30.85 -.19 +7.8
OverseasA 16.5 -.07 +8.6
First Funds:
GrInc I 16.6 -.17 +2.1
IntmBdI 10.59 +.04 -1.8
First Investors A
GloblA p 5.27 -.06 +5.8
IncoA p 3.03 -.01 +3.6
TxExA p 10.31 +.03 -3.2
Firsthand Funds:
Tech Val 29.84 -1.32 +27.6
Frank/Temp Frnk A:
AGE A p 1.95 +4.6
AdjUS p 9.19 -.3
AZTFA p 10.73 +.03 -2.3
BalInv p 42.87 -.40 +8.3
BioDisA p 47.09 -1.12 +7.7
CAHYBd p 9.87 +.01 -2.2
CalInsA p 12.37 +.03 -3.7
CalTFA p 7.05 +.01 -3.4
CapGrA 9.57 -.16 +5.3
DynTchA 20.46 -.49 +7.9
EqIncA p 17.01 -.21 +1.5
FedTFA p 11.78 +.03 -2.5
FlxCpGrA 29.93 -.73 +8.6
FLTFA p 11.77 +.02 -3.0
GlHlthA p 17.88 -.08 +4.2
GoldPrMA 16.31 -.21 +24.0
GrwthA p 27.79 -.41 +7.0
HYTFA p 10.32 +.01 -1.0
IncomA p 2.22 -.01 +2.7
InsTFA p 12.2 +.02 -2.9
MATFA p 11.73 +.02 -3.0
MITFA p 12.23 +.02 -2.9
MNInsA 12.05 +.02 -2.6
MOTFA p 12.01 +.02 -2.8
NatResA p 15.45 -.19 -.3
NJTFA p 11.8 +.02 -3.0
NYTFA p 11.75 +.02 -2.6
OhioI A p 12.38 +.02 -3.0
ORTFA p 11.52 +.02 -2.7
PATFA p 10.32 +.02 -2.8
ReEScA p 19.57 -.28 +6.5
RisDvA p 27.2 -.37 +5.0
SmCG2A p 9.51 -.31 +15.8
SMCpGrA 27.17 -.72 +7.1
StrMPrt 10.03 +.02 -.6
USGovA p 6.77 +.02 -.7
UtilsA p 8.65 +.02 -2.2
VATFA p 11.52 +.02 -2.6
Frank/Temp Frnk B:
IncomB1 p 2.23 +3.1
IncomeB t 2.22 +2.5
US GovB 6.76 +.02 -.8
Frank/Temp Frnk C:
AGE C t 1.96 +4.4
CATFC t 7.05 +.02 -3.5
HYTFC t 10.42 +.02 -1.0
IncomC t 2.24 +3.0
SMCpGrC p 26.19 -.70 +6.8
USGvC t 6.74 +.02 -.9
Frank/Temp Mtl A&B:
BeacnA 12.89 -.09 +4.9
DiscA 18.55 -.08 +5.2
QualfdA t 15.97 -.13 +4.6
SharesA 18.89 -.11 +3.6
Frank/Temp Mtl C:
BeacnC t 12.78 -.08 +4.7
DiscC t 18.43 -.08 +5.1
SharesC t 18.7 -.11 +3.4
Frank/Temp Temp A:
CapAcc 10.34 -.11 +7.7
DvMktA p 12.54 -.05 +11.5
ForgnA p 9.8 -.11 +9.1
GlbOpA p 12.21 -.16 +7.9
GlSCoA p 7.22 -.12 +15.2
GrwthA p 18.78 -.16 +5.1
WorldA p 15.37 -.18 +8.3
Frank/Temp Tmp B&C:
ForgnC p 9.67 -.10 +9.0
GrwthC p 18.38 -.16 +4.8
Fremont Funds:
Bond 10.51 +.04 -2.3
Global 10.84 -.08 +2.2
USMicro 26.63 -.77 +15.5
GE Elfun S&S:
S&S Inc 11.75 +.05 -2.5
S&S PM 39.85 -.48 +2.6
TaxEx 11.86 +.03 -2.8
Trusts 52.75 -.73 +1.2
GMO Trust II:
Foreign 11.08 -.08 +7.5
US Core 11.83 -.16 +3.9
GMO Trust III:
EmMk r 11.97 +.01 +17.4
ECD 10.98 +.06 +1.5
For 11.11 -.09 +7.5
IntIntrVl 20.26 -.12 +5.8
IntSm 13.81 -.12 +13.8
US Core 11.85 -.16 +3.9
GMO Trust IV:
EmCnDt 10.99 +.07 +1.5
EmrMkt 11.95 +.01 +17.3
IntlIntrVl 20.26 -.11 +5.8
US Core 11.83 -.16 +4.0
GMO USCrV 11.83 -.15 +4.1
Gabelli Funds:
Asset NA
EqInc p 14.77 -.14 +2.9
GlTel 12.45 -.12 +6.0
Gwth 22.53 -.47 +7.0
Mathers 10.67 +.01 -.6
SCapG 21.71 -.31 +8.9
Value t 16.28 -.27 +5.5
Gartmore Fds A:
NationwA 17.32 -.26 +3.4
Gartmore Fds D:
Bond 9.64 +.05 -2.5
NationwD 17.21 -.26 +3.4
Gartmore Fds Instl:
S&P500Ins 8.74 -.10 +3.9
Gateway Funds:
Gateway 22.52 -.03 +2.3
Glenmede Funds:
Intl 13.44 -.18 +5.1
Goldman Sachs A:
CapGrA 17.15 -.27 +4.3
CoreFxA 10.3 +.05 -2.0
HiYieldA 7.63 +4.4
HYMuA p 10.45 +.04 -.9
MdCVA p 25.2 -.35 +3.6
SmCapA 33.83 -.68 +9.7
UltraSDG 9.51 +.2
Goldman Sachs Inst:
CoreFxd 10.33 +.05 -1.9
EnhInc 10.01 +.3
HiYield 7.64 +4.5
HYMuni 10.46 +.04 -.7
SD Gov 10 +.01 -.2
ShtDrTF 10.41 +.01 -.4
UltraSDG 9.53 +.4
Guardian Funds:
Bond 12.62 +.06 -2.3
ParkA A 27.93 -.34 +3.2
Stock 25.34 -.31 +3.3
Guinness Atkinson:
ChinaHK 13.64 -.31 +17.7
Harbor Funds:
Bond 11.91 +.06 -2.2
CapAp 24.34 -.47 +6.2
Intl 32.73 -.38 +10.6
SmCpGr 11.38 -.29 +13.8
Hartford Fds A:
AdvrsA p 13.9 -.11 +1.5
CpAppA p 24.9 -.28 +8.0
DivGthA p 15.52 -.14 +3.4
GlbLdA p 13.37 -.27 +6.4
MidCpA p 19.23 -.38 +4.3
StkA p 15.69 -.22 +3.9
Hartford Fds B:
Advrs B 13.74 -.12 +1.3
CpAppB p 23.49 -.26 +7.8
Hartford Fds C:
Advrs C t 13.88 -.11 +1.4
CapApC t 23.51 -.27 +7.8
MidCapC t 18.43 -.37 +4.1
Hartford Fds L:
GrwOppL 19.84 -.38 +7.4
Hartford HLS IA :
Bond 12 +.05 -1.6
CapApp 38.49 -.44 +7.9
Div&Gr 16.96 -.16 +3.6
GlblLdrs 13.84 -.29 +6.5
Grwth&Inc 10.06 -.13 +4.6
GrwthOpp 20.93 -.39 +7.3
Advisers 21.27 -.17 +1.8
Stock 40.53 -.56 +4.1
Index 27.21 -.33 +3.9
IntlOpp 8.96 -.06 +8.5
MidCap 21.96 -.43 +4.7
MtgSecs 11.68 +.02 -.7
SmallCo 13.11 -.39 +14.9
USGvSecs 11.3 +.03 -2.5
Hartford HLS IB :
Advisors p 21.33 -.17 +1.7
Bond p 11.94 +.05 -1.6
CapApp p 38.35 -.44 +7.9
Div&Gro p 16.92 -.15 +3.6
Stock p 40.43 -.56 +4.1
Heartland Fds:
Value 45.73 -.69 +17.9
Hennessy Funds:
CorGrow 17.21 -.33 +16.5
Heritage Funds:
CapApA p 21.48 -.50 +2.8
Gr&IncA 11.15 -.20 +3.1
HiYldA p 7.54 +.01 +2.5
IntGvA p 10.02 +.02 -1.5
SCapA p 27.9 -.56 +17.3
HighMark Funds:
Bond 10.97 +.05 -1.9
Homestead Funds:
Value 24.72 -.22 +2.4
HussmnStrGr14.5 -.08 +5.2
ICAP Funds:
Equity 36.69 -.42 +2.7
ICMSmCo 29.33 -.54 +9.3
IDEX Funds A:
JanGrowp 19.14 -.32 +4.7
ING Funds Cl A:
GNMA A 8.82 +.03 -.9
IntValA p 12.78 -.16 +11.7
ING Funds Cl B:
FinSvsB p 19.99 -.34 +4.0
PrProIV t 10.25 +.01 -2.8
PrProVI t 10.04 +.02 NN
PrinPrV t 10.12 +.02 NN
ING Funds Cl C:
IntValC p 12.53 -.15 +11.6
ING Partners:
SBAggGrI 33.66 -.84 +4.5
TRPGrEqI 41.04 -.62 +4.3
ING T,M,Q&I:
IntValI 12.81 -.16 +11.9
Invesco Funds:
Bal Inv p 13.51 -.13 +2.8
CoreEqu p NA
DynmI p NA
EnrgyI p NA
EuropI r 8.31 -.02 -.8
FinSvcI p NA
Grwth 1.84 -.04 +5.7
HlthScI p NA
LeisurI p NA
SelIncI p 5.32 +.03 -1.5
SmCoGI p NA
Tech NA
TotRtnI p 22.66 -.17 +1.9
USGvtI p 7.46 +.03 -2.7
UtilI p NA
Invesco Funds Inst:
Tech NA
Ivy Funds:
IntlA p 18.38 -.23 +4.8
JPMorgan A Class:
CapGro 35.22 -.83 +8.4
GroInc 26.29 -.32 +2.5
JP Morgan Instl:
Bond 10.06 +.05 -3.0
BdUltra 10.06 +.05 -3.0
DiscEq 12.19 -.14 +3.6
IntTxFrIn 11.03 +.02 -2.5
ST Bond 9.91 +.01 -.6
JPMorgan Select:
Bond II 40.97 +.20 -3.1
FlIntEq 22.25 -.22 +4.5
IntmdTF 11.04 +.03 -2.5
SmCap 22.39 -.42 +11.4
TxAwEq 14.45 -.13 +3.3
TF Inc 6.55 +.02 -3.3
Janus :
Balanced 18.9 -.11
CoreEq 16.27 -.22 +2.8
Enterpr 28.3 -.60 +7.4
FlxInc 9.7 +.03 -2.4
Fund 21.16 -.36 +5.7
Gl LifeSci 14.64 -.13 +6.6
GlTech 9.64 -.28 +14.2
GrInc 26.32 -.37 +3.4
HiYld r 9.39 +.01 +1.3
Mercury 17.66 -.33 +5.6
MdCpVl p 17.98 -.32 +7.8
Olympus 23.86 -.42 +6.1
Orion 5.37 -.10 +8.0
Ovrseas 18.15 -.21 +9.9
ShTmBd 2.97 -.1
SCVInst 27.73 -.55 +8.6
SCVInv 27.55 -.55 +8.5
SpecEq 9.51 -.19 +13.9
Twenty 33.09 -.33 +2.8
Ventur 43.77 -1.12 +15.9
WrldW 35.92 -.47 +5.0
Janus Adv I Shrs:
Balan p 22.29 -.12 +.1
CapAppr p 19.55 -.23 +2.1
IntlGro 21.36 -.26 +9.2
WrldW 23.99 -.31 +4.8
Janus Aspen Instl:
Balanced 21.75 -.12 +.1
CapAppr 19.12 -.23 +2.5
FlxInc 12.5 +.06 -2.3
Growth 17.35 -.28 +5.9
IntlGr 20.22 -.23 +9.1
MCpGr 19.44 -.39 +7.0
WrldwGr 23.32 -.31 +5.0
JennisonDryden A:
GlbTotRtA 7.28 +.01 -5.7
GovIncA 9.2 +.04 -3.0
GrowthA 12.1 -.23 +6.0
HighIncA 9.93 +.02 -2.0
HiYldA p 5.57 +.01 +2.7
NatMuA 15.43 +.05 -3.4
STCrpBdA 11.54 +.03 -.9
UtilityA 8.07
ValueA p 14.14 -.17 +3.1
JennisonDryden B:
GrowthB 11.31 -.22 +5.8
HiYldB t 5.56 +.01 +2.6
JennisonDryden Z&I:
GrowthZ 12.36 -.24 +6.1
StkIdxI 22.77 -.27 +4.0
StkIdxZ 22.75 -.27 +3.9
Jensen 21.32 -.15 +2.1
John Hancock A:
BondA p 15.19 +.07 -2.5
CorEqA 23.09 -.37 +4.1
GvIncA p 9.39 +.04 -3.9
LgCpEqA 13.45 -.22 +3.9
RgBkA 39.15 -.88 +2.4
SmCpGA p 8.46 -.23 +14.5
SvInvA p 17.22 -.16 +1.9
StrInA p 6.92 +.02 -1.6
TFBd A 10.06 +.02 -3.6
John Hancock B:
FnIndB p 15.23 -.25 +2.1
HiYldB 4.96 -.01 +6.4
LgCpEqB 12.89 -.22 +3.6
RgBkB t 38.83 -.87 +2.2
StrIncB 6.92 +.02 -1.8
Julius Baer Funds:
IntlEq p 23.13 -.21 +6.9
IntlEqI r 23.44 -.21 +7.0
Lazard Instl:
EmgMktI 9.23 -.01 +17.9
IntlEqIns 9.96 -.09 +3.0
IntlSCIns 13.35 -.10 +6.6
SmCapI 17.5 -.32 +11.7
Legg Mason: Fd
AmLd p 17.54 -.24 +3.1
OpporTr t 12.07 -.14 +5.6
SpInv p 40.21 -1.16 +10.7
ValTr p 51.72 -.67 +6.0
ValTrInst 55.65 -.72 +6.3
Liberty Class A:
Acorn t 19.68 -.32 +11.9
FedSA 10.7 +.05 -2.8
FundA 7.3 -.04 +1.6
Gr&IncA 14.91 -.14 +1.5
SlctVlA p 21.19 -.34 +4.8
StrtInA 6.01 +.02 -.6
TxEA p 13.3 +.05 -4.3
Liberty Class B:
Acorn t 19.32 -.31 +11.7
Gr&IncB t 13.98 -.13 +1.3
StrtInB t 6 +.01 -.9
Liberty Class C:
Acorn t 19.31 -.32 +11.7
Liberty Class Z:
Acorn 19.96 -.32 +12.1
AcornIntl 18.98 -.15 +9.6
EqGro 18.21 -.29 +2.8
IntBdZ 8.99 +.02 -1.2
IntGvBd 10.57 +.03 -2.3
IntTEBd 10.59 +.03 -3.2
LargeCo 24.49 -.29 +3.9
QltyPlBd 11.27 +.05 -3.2
SlctValZ 21.39 -.34 +4.9
SmCpZ 15.83 -.24 +11.8
YngInvZ 9.31 -.14 +4.4
Longleaf Partners:
Partners 26.41 -.42 +2.8
Intl 12.84 -.12 +13.4
SmCap 25.12 -.39 +6.2
Loomis Sayles:
BondI 12.5 +.03 -1.0
Lord Abbett A:
AffilA p 12.22 -.14 +4.7
BdDebA p 7.76 +2.3
DevGtA p 14.3 -.38 +15.4
GvScA p 2.61 +.01 -3.1
MidCpA p 17.14 -.18 +6.2
TaxFrA p 11.31 +.03 -3.6
Lord Abbett B:
AffildB p 12.25 -.15 +4.4
BdDbB p 7.76 -.01 +2.1
MidCpV p 16.68 -.18 +6.0
Lord Abbett C:
AffildC p 12.23 -.15 +4.4
BdDbC p 7.77 +2.2
MdCVC p 16.64 -.18 +6.1
Lord Abbett Y:
AffY 12.24 -.14 +4.8
Lutheran Bro A:
BroHi 4.95 +.01 +3.0
Fund 17.73 -.19 +1.6
Incom 8.68 +.03 -1.9
MidCpGr 11.68 -.28 +7.6
Muni 9.04 +.03 -2.8
OppGr 8.48 -.22 +14.4
WldGr 7.95 -.10 +3.5
MFS Funds A:
MITA p 14.44 -.17 +3.1
MIGA p 10.78 -.18 +4.1
BondA p 12.88 +.06 -2.5
CapOp p 11.05 -.17 +5.4
CoreA p 14.28 -.27 +3.6
EmGA p 26.57 -.58 +5.6
GlEqA p 18.76 -.15 +3.4
GvMgA p 6.59 +.02 -.8
GvScA p 9.74 +.05 -2.5
GrOpA p 7.57 -.13 +4.1
HiInA p 3.77 +2.3
LtdMA p 6.8 +.01 -.3
MCapA p 7.3 -.20 +9.4
MuBdA 10.73 +.03 -2.9
MuHiA 8.06 +.02 -1.2
MSCA p 12.39 +.02 -2.3
NewDA t 14.59 -.40 +14.6
RschA p 16.21 -.23 +3.2
StGrA p 16.6 -.31 +5.1
StInA p 6.62 +.02 -.7
TotRA p 14.15 -.07 +1.1
UtilA p 7.7 -.03 +1.8
ValueA p 18.12 -.19 +2.5
MFS Funds B:
MA ITB 14.06 -.17 +2.9
Bond B 12.84 +.06 -2.7
CapOpB 10.27 -.16 +5.2
EmGB t 24.91 -.55 +5.4
MIGB 9.95 -.17 +3.8
GlEqB t 18.21 -.14 +3.2
HiInB t 3.78 +2.4
MCapB 7.05 -.19 +9.3
RschB 15.26 -.21 +3.1
StGrB p 16.03 -.30 +4.9
TotRB t 14.15 -.07 +.9
UtilB 7.67 -.03 +1.7
ValueB 18.02 -.19 +2.3
MFS Funds C:
MITC t 14 -.17 +2.9
MIGC 9.91 -.17 +3.9
GlEqC p 17.88 -.14 +3.1
TotRC t 14.2 -.08 +.9
ValueC t 18.01 -.19 +2.4
MainStay Funds A:
EqIdx 33.36 -.40 +3.8
HiYldBA 5.85 +5.1
MainStay Funds B:
CapApB t 24.45 -.42 +4.4
ConvB t 11.47 -.12 +2.3
GovtB t 8.43 +.04 -3.3
HYldBB t 5.85 +.01 +5.1
TotRtB t 17 -.17 +1.9
ValueB t 16.01 -.24 +4.8
Mairs & Power:
Growth 56.83 -.53 +5.4
Managers Funds:
SpclEq 69.56 -1.40 +13.8
Marshall Funds:
IntBdY 9.55 +.03 -1.6
Marsico Funds:
Focus p 13.64 -.19 +5.5
Growp 14.08 -.20 +6.1
Mass Mutual Inst:
CoreBdS 11.62 +.06 -2.0
CoreValS 8.01 -.10 +3.8
IndxEqS 9.5 -.11 +3.9
IntlEqS 8.13 -.11 +13.2
Master Select:
Equity 12.14 -.19 +5.9
Intl 12.69 -.12 +7.3
Matthews Asian:
AsianG&I 12.28 -.07 +9.9
Korea 4.39 +16.8
Mellon Funds:
BondFd 13.06 +.05 -2.0
EmgMkts 15.28 +15.5
IntlFd 12.07 -.12 +9.6
IntBdFd 13.11 +.05 -2.0
LgCpStk 8.16 -.11 +3.0
MdCpStk 10.95 -.20 +7.0
NtIntMu 13.19 +.03 -2.2
PAIntMu 13.04 +.03 -2.5
SmCpStk 13.12 -.26 +12.1
Mellon Inst Funds:
FxdIncm 19.91 +.08 -2.1
MergerFd 14.79 -.02 +3.1
Meridian Funds:
Growth 29.73 -.61 +9.9
Value 33.72 -.41 +7.3
Merrill Lynch A:
BalCapA p 24.46 -.22 +1.7
BaVlA p 27.02 -.45 +5.2
BdHiInc 4.88 +4.2
CrBPtA p 11.59 +.04 -2.2
FdGrA p 14.76 -.20 +7.7
GlAlA p 13.7 -.10 +5.4
S&P500 p 12.45 -.15 +3.9
SmCVlA p 22.66 -.37 +8.5
USGvMtg p 10.19 +.01 -.9
Merrill Lynch B:
BalCapB t 23.81 -.21 +1.6
BaVlB t 26.53 -.44 +5.1
BdHiInc 4.88 +4.0
CrBPtB t 11.58 +.04 -2.3
FocVal t 10.11 -.18 +4.8
FndlGB t 13.69 -.19 +7.5
GlAlB t 13.45 -.09 +5.2
SmCVlB t 20.84 -.35 +8.3
USGvMtg t 10.19 -1.0
Merrill Lynch C:
BaVlC t 25.98 -.43 +5.1
FdGrC t 13.77 -.19 +7.5
GlAlC t 13.13 -.09 +5.2
USGvMtg t 10.19 +.01 -1.1
Merrill Lynch I:
IntlVal 19.01 -.15 +7.1
BalCapI 24.52 -.22 +1.8
BaVlI 27.13 -.45 +5.3
BdHiInc 4.88 +4.2
CrBPtI t 11.58 +.04 -2.1
FocValI 10.9 -.20 +4.9
FundlGI 15.03 -.21 +7.8
GlAlI t 13.73 -.10 +5.4
MnInI 7.85 +.02 -3.0
MNatlI 10.31 +.03 -2.0
S&P500 12.49 -.15 +3.9
SmCVlI 22.84 -.38 +8.6
Metro West Fds:
TotRetBd 9.63 +.03 +.5
TotRtBdI 9.63 +.03 +.6
Monetta Funds:
Monetta 9.29 -.27 +6.5
MontagGr I 20.51 -.16 +1.3
Morgan Stanley:
LtdDrTrea 9.76
LtdDur 9.58 +.01 +.2
Morgan Stanley B:
AmOppB 19.79 -.35 +2.6
CalTFB 12.45 +.03 -3.3
DivGtB 39.92 -.43 +3.4
EuroB 12.3 -.13 +1.9
GlbDivB 10.85 -.10 +5.9
GrwthB 10.6 -.16 +4.2
HlthScB 16.84 -.21 +6.6
HiYldB 1.7 +.01 +3.5
InfoB 8.88 -.35 +16.7
IntSmB 10.33 -.09 +14.0
SP500B 10.63 -.13 +3.6
SpcValB 15.25 -.23 +8.5
StratB 15.1 -.16 +5.3
USGvtB 9.23 +.03 -2.3
UtilB 10.71 -2.0
ValAdB 31.05 -.53 +5.7
Morgan Stanley D:
AmOppD 21.09 -.37 +2.9
DivGrD 39.92 -.43 +3.7
TaxExD 11.73 +.03 -2.7
MorganStanley Inst:
EmMkt 13.35 -.03 +18.8
EqGrA 14.63 -.22 +4.6
CrPlFInst 11.59 -.5
IntlSC 18.7 -.18 +14.4
IntlEq 16.83 -.09 +7.2
IntlEqB p 16.72 -.09 +7.2
InvGrFxIn 11.41 +.01 -.8
LtdDur 10.63 -.01 +.4
MCapGr 15.61 -.37 +10.1
MCGrAd p 15.31 -.37 +10.0
USMCInst 18.6 -.44 +10.6
USReal 16.5 -.22 +7.8
USSCpCr 18.84 -.44 +10.6
ValueAdv 13.84 -.20 +6.0
Muhlenk 53.88 -1.04 +4.3
Mutual Series:
BeacnZ 12.96 -.09 +5.0
DiscZ 18.7 -.09 +5.4
EuropZ 15.19 -.05 +5.4
QualfdZ 16.05 -.14 +4.6
SharesZ 19 -.11 +3.7
Nations Funds Inv A:
FocEqA t 15.29 -.22 +5.3
IntlValA r 16.29 -.19 +10.9
ValuA p 10.17 -.16 +2.7
Nations Funds Inv B:
FocEqB t 14.71 -.21 +5.1
Nations Funds Pri A:
BdFdPrA 9.89 +.04 -2.4
CnScPrA 15.37 -.16 +2.2
FocEqA t 15.44 -.23 +5.4
HiYldPA 9.38 +.01 +3.4
IntMPA 10.24 +.02 -2.3
IntEqPA 10.09 -.11 +6.2
IntVlPrA 16.36 -.19 +11.1
IntBdPA 9.88 +.04 -2.2
LgCpIdPA 19.64 -.23 +4.0
MdCGPA 10.66 -.19 +6.7
MdCpIPA 8.78 -.19 +8.5
MuInPA 10.93 +.03 -2.7
STInPA 10 +.01 -.2
STMPA 10.39 +.01 -.2
SmCpIPA 15.32 -.30 +12.4
SmCoPA 13.63 -.29 +14.1
StrGrPrA 10.46 -.13 +4.4
StrtIncPA 9.97 +.03 -1.4
ValuePA 10.18 -.16 +2.7
Neuberger&BermInv:
Focus 32.57 -.77 +15.7
Genesis 23.22 -.33 +8.1
GenesInst 31.71 -.44 +8.2
Guard 12.84 -.25 +2.7
HiIncoBd 9.15 +.01 +1.4
Partner 18.94 -.36 +2.9
Neuberger&BermTr:
Genesis 33.23 -.46 +8.1
Nicholas Group:
Nich 49.41 -.45 +5.5
Nch II 19.26 -.28 +8.3
NchIn 2.13 +2.4
NchLt 15.61 -.18 +10.8
Northeast Investors:
Trust 7.11 +.01 +1.6
Northern Funds:
FixIn 10.19 +.04 -2.2
GrEq 13.56 -.19 +6.0
HiYFxInc 8.07 -.01 +2.2
IntTxEx 10.55 +.02 -2.6
LgCapVal 10.91 -.12 +4.8
SelEq 16.47 -.32 +1.9
TxExpt 10.78 +.02 -3.2
Northern Instl Fds:
BondA 20.17 +.09 -2.0
EqIdxA 13.06 -.16 +4.0
Nuveen Cl A:
LrgCpV p 20.45 -.23 +2.6
LtMBA px 10.79 -.02 -1.4
Nuveen Cl R:
InMun R x 10.87 -.03 -3.1
IntDMBd x 9.06 -.02 -2.5
Oak Assoc Fds:
WhiteOkG 31.62 -.88 +10.9
OakValue 25.86 -.34 +4.1
Oakmark Funds I:
EqtyIncI 20.46 -.17 +3.4
GlobalI 17.1 -.18 +10.3
IntlI 15.71 -.17 +7.1
IntSmCpI 13.51 -.11 +10.9
OakmrkI 34.27 -.40 +1.9
SelectI 27.55 -.45 +.6
SmCapI 17.72 -.33 +10.1
Oberweis Funds:
MicroCap 24.51 -.62 +31.3
Old Westbury Fds:
CapOpp p 13.39 -.16 +3.9
Olstein Funds:
FnclAlert t 14.38 -.30 +9.0
One Group A:
EqIndx p 23.15 -.28 +3.9
MidGrA p 19.32 -.32 +8.2
One Group B:
InvBlB t 10.84 -.06 +2.2
InvG&I t 11.16 -.10 +3.9
InvGrB t 11.33 -.14 +5.6
One
UltSTBd t 9.88 +.01 +.2
One Group I:
Bond I 10.95 +.04 -2.0
DvrsEqI 10.58 -.13 +3.5
DvrIntlI 12.03 -.11 +8.7
DvMdCpI 16.5 -.34 +6.8
EqIndxI 23.16 -.27 +4.0
GvBdI p 10.36 +.04 -3.0
HiYldBI 7.94 +.01 +3.0
IncBdI 7.93 +.03 -1.8
IntBondI 10.82 +.04 -1.6
IntTFI 11.18 +.03 -2.7
IntlEqI 14.49 -.12 +9.9
LgCpVlI 12.5 -.14 +3.4
LgGrI 13.22 -.14 +5.0
MidCpVlI 14.38 -.31 +7.0
MidGrI 19.87 -.33 +8.3
MtgBckI 10.72 +.02 -.1
MuniIncI 9.85 +.02 -2.4
STBdI 10.81 +.01 -.2
SmCapGI 9.95 -.17 +13.8
SCapVl I 20.38 -.40 +11.5
TxFrBdI 13.08 +.03 -2.9
UltSTBdI 9.96 +.01 +.3
Oppenheimer A:
AMTFrNY 11.97 +.01 -3.3
CapApA p 35.3 -.63 +5.6
CapIncA p 11.29 -.04 +2.7
ChIncA p 9.12 +.01 +2.9
DvMktA p 17.14 +.01 +18.8
Disc p 39.83 -1.09 +17.7
EquityA 9.81 -.18 +5.0
GlobA p 44.47 -.65 +10.2
GlbOppA 22.52 -.66 +12.0
Gold p 17.42 -.26 +27.7
GrthA p 25.29 -.48 +3.9
HiYdA p 9.18 +.01 +2.9
LTGvA p 10.31 +.01 -.1
MnStFdA 29.68 -.33 +3.6
MnStOA p 11.18 -.18 +9.4
MSSCA p 16.42 -.37 +13.5
MltSt A p 12.49 -.08 +2.9
MuniA p 9.26 +.02 -2.3
StrInA p 4 +.01 +.5
USGv p 9.85 +.04 -2.1
Oppenheimer B:
CpAppB p 33 -.59 +5.4
ChIncB t 9.1 +2.6
EquityB 9.59 -.18 +4.7
GloblB t 41.68 -.61 +10.0
GlbOppB 21.96 -.64 +11.8
LTGovB t 10.3 +.01 -.3
MnStFdB 28.72 -.33 +3.3
StrIncB t 4.01 +.3
Oppenheimer C&M:
CpAppC p 32.63 -.59 +5.4
GloblC p 42.35 -.62 +10.0
LTGovC t 10.29 +.01 -.2
MnStFdC 28.74 -.32 +3.3
MidCpC p 13.06 -.35 +9.6
StrInC t 3.99 +.01 +.3
OppenheimQuest :
QBalA 15.08 -.18 +3.9
QBalB 15.02 -.18 +3.7
QBalC 15.01 -.19 +3.7
QOpptyA 29.18 -.25 +4.2
QOpptyB 28.58 -.25 +4.0
QValueA p 17.15 -.19 +3.3
Oppenheimer Roch:
LtdNYA p 3.22 -1.3
LtdNYB p 3.22 -1.5
LNYC t 3.21 -1.5
RoMu A p 16.83 +.01 -1.3
RoMu B 16.82 +.01 -1.5
RoMu C p 16.81 +.01 -1.5
Oppenheimer Y:
CapAppY 35.95 -.64 +5.7
PBHG Funds:
CliprFoc 14.96 -.19 +4.6
Growth 16.95 -.42 +8.0
IRACpPr r 10 +.8
LgCapGr 17.67 -.37 +5.9
PIMCO Admin PIMS:
LowDur 10.28 +.02 -.7
RlRetAd p 11.42 +.07 -3.2
TotRtAd 10.75 +.04 -2.3
PIMCO Instl PIMS:
FrgnBd 10.54 +.03 -2.4
GlblBd 10.16 +.02 -4.6
HiYld 9.37 +.02 +1.2
LowDu 10.28 +.02 -.6
LDII 9.86 +.01 -1.2
ModDur 10.46 +.03 -1.7
RealRtnI 11.42 +.07 -3.2
ShortT 10.04 +.1
TotRt 10.75 +.04 -2.2
TR II 10.34 +.05 -2.4
TRIII 9.57 +.04 -2.1
PIMCO Funds A:
HiYldA 9.37 +.02 +1.1
LwDurA 10.28 +.02 -.7
SmCpV A 22.75 -.33 +5.6
RenaisA 19.63 -.46 +15.5
RealRtA p 11.42 +.07 -3.3
ShtTmA p 10.04 -.1
TotRtA 10.75 +.04 -2.3
PIMCO Funds Admin:
HiYldA p 9.37 +.02 +1.1
PIMCO Funds B:
HiYldB t 9.37 +.02 +.9
LwDurB p 10.28 +.02 -.9
InnovB t 14.43 -.64 +14.8
RenaisB 18.67 -.44 +15.2
RealRtB t 11.42 +.07 -3.5
TRRtB t 10.75 +.04 -2.5
PIMCO Funds C:
HiYldC 9.37 +.02 +.9
LwDurC t 10.28 +.02 -.9
SmCVC p 22.31 -.33 +5.4
GwthC t 14.94 -.27 +3.8
RenaisC t 18.55 -.44 +15.2
TargtC t 12.91 -.34 +10.7
RealRtC p 11.42 +.07 -3.4
TotRtC t 10.75 +.04 -2.5
Parnassus Funds:
EqtyInco 22.99 -.05 +1.7
Pax World:
Balanced 19.35 -.15 +2.0
PerkinsOp 13.45 -.27 +4.8
Phila 6.27 -.03 -.8
Phoenix-Aberdeen :
IntlA 7.77 -.08 +7.0
Phoenix-Engemann :
AgGrthA 13.28 -.38 +14.1
CapGrA 13.51 -.20 +6.2
Nifty 50 16.21 -.31 +7.1
Phoenix-Oakhurst :
BalanA 14 -.10 +2.7
Pioneer Funds A:
AIncTr p 10.06 +.04 -2.0
EqIncA p 23.08 -.21 +3.0
EuropA p 21.51 -.20 +.5
GrwthA p 10.83 -.16 +4.8
HiYldA p 11.18 -.05 +2.4
MdCpGrA 12.87 -.26 +8.3
MdCVA p 20.81 -.31 +6.9
PionFdA p 34.51 -.44 +3.9
ValueA p 16.46 -.19 +3.9
Pioneer Funds B:
HiYldB t 11.22 -.05 +2.2
PionFdB 33.72 -.43 +3.6
Pioneer Funds C:
HiYldC t 11.32 -.05 +2.2
Price Funds Adv:
BlChip p 25.87 -.43 +3.8
EqInc p 22.1 -.23 +2.3
HiYld p 6.78 +.01 +2.4
SciTec p 16.86 -.53 +10.8
Price Funds:
Balance 17.11 -.10 +1.8
BlChip 25.84 -.43 +3.8
CapApp 15.98 -.10 +3.5
CapOpp 10.89 -.14 +4.9
DivGro 18.93 -.22 +3.0
EmMktB 12.02 +.07 -.9
EmEurp 9.97 +.03 +15.7
EqInc 22.15 -.23 +2.4
EqIndex 27.31 -.32 +4.0
Europe 14.73 -.23 +1.4
FinSvcs 19.86 -.37 +5.1
GNMA 9.72 +.01 -.9
GlbStk 12.58 -.20 +4.3
GlbTech 4.39 -.11 +13.1
Growth 22.06 -.34 +4.4
Gr&In 19.41 -.27 +2.6
HlthSci 19.06 -.28 +6.8
HiYield 6.79 +.01 +2.5
InstHiYld 10.58 +.01 +2.3
ForEq 12.18 -.19 +4.4
IntlBond 9.71 +.01 -4.6
IntDis 22 -.21 +15.6
IntlStk 10.14 -.16 +4.3
Japan 6.25 -.07 +22.1
LatAm 9.96 +.09 +11.4
MDBond 10.75 +.03 -2.8
MediaTl 19.13 -.37 +10.7
MidCap 39.12 -.76 +8.5
MCapVal 18.13 -.26 +7.4
N Amer 27.16 -.45 +6.5
N Asia 7.34 -.11 +21.1
NewEra 23.3 -.26 +4.1
N Horiz 22.43 -.52 +12.7
N Inc 8.95 +.03 -2.4
PSBal 15.22 -.12 +2.8
PSGrow 17.52 -.19 +3.9
SciTec 16.86 -.52 +10.8
ShtBd 4.82 +.01 -.7
SmCpStk 25.94 -.42 +9.9
SmCap 26.78 -.43 +9.5
SpecGr 13.27 -.22 +5.7
SpecIn 11.31 +.01 -.8
TFInc 9.87 +.02 -2.9
TxFrH 11.4 +.02 -1.3
TxFrSI 5.47 +.01 -1.0
USTInt 5.64 +.02 -2.8
USTLg 11.9 +.09 -6.7
Value 17.91 -.28 +4.7
PrimryT 11.38 -.11 +2.3
Principal Funds:
Bal p 11.55 -.10 +1.7
BlChp p 15.48 -.20 +4.8
Bond p 11.01 +.05 -2.2
CpValA p 20.69 -.31 +1.1
Govt p 11.49 +.04 -1.9
Gwth p 24.14 -.33 +4.7
IntlA r 5.84 -.05 +6.2
MidCpA p 36.7 -.54 +4.7
TEBdA p 12.24 +.03 -3.5
Utils p 9.28 +.04 -2.2
Principal Inv:
PtrLV In 10.84 -.13 +2.1
PtrLGI In 6.75 -.10 +4.5
Prudent Bear:
Bear p 6.62 +.04 +3.6
PutnamFunds A:
AmGvA p 8.98 +.03 -2.5
AABalA p 9.29 -.06 +2.3
AACnA p 8.59 -.01 +.7
AAGrA p 9.27 -.09 +5.2
CATxA p 8.48 +.02 -3.1
CapApr p 15.02 -.19 +4.7
CapOpp p 9.31 -.22 +10.7
ClscEqA p 10.74 -.11 +2.4
Conv p 14.94 -.08 +3.2
DiscGr 15.32 -.35 +9.7
DvrInA p 9.75 +.02 +.6
EqInA p 14.06 -.16 +2.0
GeoA p 15.84 -.08 +.5
GlbEqty p 6.86 -.05 +5.2
GrInA p 15.87 -.16 +1.9
GrOppA p 12.03 -.13 +4.0
HlthA p 55.99 +.12 +.6
HiYdA p 7.66 +.01 +3.7
HYAdA p 5.75 +.01 +3.9
IncmA p 6.68 +.03 -2.1
IntUSA p 5.17 +.01 -1.5
IntlEq p 18.54 -.12 +4.5
IntlNop p 9.05 -.09 +3.7
IntCapO p 16.71 -.13 +8.9
InvA p 10.15 -.12 +4.6
MuniA p 8.57 +.02 -2.0
NwOpA p 35.1 -.73 +7.1
NwValA p 13.79 -.14 +3.3
NYTxA p 8.85 +.02 -2.3
OTC A p 6.52 -.17 +11.3
RsrchA p 11.84 -.12 +4.6
SmCVA p 14.36 -.29 +10.6
TxExA p 8.71 +.02 -2.3
TFHYA 12.39 +.02 -1.2
USGvA p 13.12 +.04 +.3
UtilA p 7.87 +.01 +.6
VstaA p 7.43 -.16 +8.3
VoyA p 14.8 -.20 +5.5
PutnamFunds B:
DiscGr 14.36 -.33 +9.5
DvrInB t 9.68 +.02 +.4
EqInc t 13.94 -.16 +1.8
GeoB t 15.7 -.07 +.4
GlbEq t 6.29 -.05 +5.0
GrInB t 15.66 -.15 +1.6
GrOppB t 11.5 -.13 +3.8
HlthB t 51.71 +.11 +.4
HiYldB t 7.62 +.01 +3.5
IncmB t 6.63 +.03 -2.3
IntlEq p 17.83 -.11 +4.3
InvB t 9.38 -.11 +4.5
NwOpB t 32.03 -.67 +6.9
ResrchB t 11.36 -.12 +4.4
USGvB t 13.04 +.03
VistaB t 6.59 -.14 +8.0
VoyB t 13.08 -.17 +5.2
PutnamFunds C:
IntlEq 18.11 -.12 +4.3
PutnamFunds M:
DvrInc p 9.68 +.02 +.6
HYAdv p 5.76 +3.7
Incmp 6.62 +.03 -2.0
PutnamFunds Y:
AABAl 9.31 -.06 +2.5
George 15.88 -.08 +.6
Gr&Inc 15.9 -.16 +1.9
Income 6.71 +.03 -2.0
IntlEq 18.69 -.12 +4.5
Inv 10.29 -.12 +4.8
NwOpp 36.09 -.75 +7.2
Vista 7.68 -.17 +8.3
Voy 15.22 -.20 +5.5
RS Funds:
RSDivrG p 19.89 -.57 +20.8
RSEmG p 26.05 -.79 +15.4
RSIAge p 13.4 -.56 +19.4
RSPart 25.58 -.23 +16.1
Reynolds Funds:
BlChGr p 28.64 -.99 +7.9
Royce Funds:
LwPrStk r 12.53 -.23 +13.1
OpptyI r 10.83 -.30 +22.0
PennMuI r 8.25 -.12 +11.2
Premier r 11.7 -.18 +10.7
SpecEq r 16.22 -.10 +6.7
TotRetI rx 9.82 -.17 +7.6
Russell Funds S:
DivBdS 23.96 +.11 -2.1
DivEqS 35.51 -.47 +4.0
IntlSecS 47.44 -.48 +8.0
MstrtBdS 10.5 +.04 -1.3
QuantEqS 31.3 -.41 +4.0
RESecS 33.41 -.48 +7.2
ShTrBdS 19.1 +.02 -.3
SpecGrS 46.52 -1.14 +11.7
Russell Instl I:
Eq I I 24.58 -.34 +4.3
Eq II I 33.71 -.82 +11.8
Eq Q I 28.86 -.38 +4.1
FixInc I 22.18 +.10 -2.0
Intl I 29.31 -.30 +8.2
Rydex Dynamic:
Tmpt500 p 64.61 +1.48 -8.7
Rydex Investor:
Juno 21.66 -.23 +10.8
OTC 9.05 -.26 +10.2
Ursa 10.79 +.12 -4.1
SAFECO Funds:
DivInco 16.97 -.19 +3.0
Equit 15.54 -.17 +3.7
GwthOpp 22.53 -.36 +14.8
MuniBd 14.23 +.04 -3.2
SEI Portfolios:
CoreFxA 10.57 +.05 -2.0
EMktDbt 11 +.08 -.4
EmMkt p 9.03 -.02 +18.0
EqIdxA 31.29 -.38 +4.1
HiYld 8.32 +2.9
IntMuniA 11.2 +.03 -2.6
IntlEqA 8.28 -.07 +6.8
IntlFixA 11.82 +.01 -5.6
LgCGroA 16 -.24 +4.6
LgCValA 16.92 -.21 +2.7
S&P500A 31.2 -.38 +4.0
SmCGrA 14.59 -.43 +17.9
SmCValA 17.67 -.31 +9.8
TxMgLC 9.3 -.13 +3.7
SM&R Funds:
GrthT 3.53 -.04 +4.1
SSgA Funds:
EmgMkt 11.06 -.02 +17.3
SP500 16.68 -.20 +4.0
STI Classic:
CapAppT 11.28 -.14 +2.4
GrwIncT p 12.77 -.16 +3.2
InGBT p 10.52 +.06 -3.3
SmCpGT 17.63 -.39 +16.3
SmCpVal p 15.11 -.21 +9.5
ValIncT p 10.07 -.12 +2.7
Salomon Brothers:
Cap 24.28 -.42 +6.4
Cap2 t 23.16 -.40 +6.0
HiYldA 7.95 +.03 +1.2
InvValO 17.11 -.26 +2.3
Schwab Funds:
IntlInvIS 12.1 -.08 +6.0
IntSS r 12.1 -.08 +6.0
MT Bal 13.36 -.09 +2.9
MT Gro 13.83 -.14 +4.8
1000Inv r 28.99 -.38 +4.4
1000Sel 28.99 -.38 +4.4
S&P Inv 15.71 -.19 +3.9
S&P Sel 15.76 -.19 +4.0
ST Bond 10.21 +.02 -.9
SmCpInv 17.3 -.41 +12.1
SmCpSl 17.32 -.41 +12.2
TotBond 10.3 +.04 -2.4
YldPlsSl 9.7 +.5
Scudder Funds A:
CalTxA 7.47 +.01 -3.0
DrHiRA 33.26 -.40 +1.2
GrthA 8.29 -.14 +5.7
HiIncA 5.2 +.01 +2.8
MgdMuni p 9.15 +.01 -2.6
Trgt2011 10.46 +.02 -3.9
TechA 10 -.37 +11.4
TotRetA 8.29 -.06 +2.2
USGovA 8.67 +.03 -.5
Scudder Funds B:
DreHiRB 33.11 -.40 +.9
HiIncB 5.19 +2.6
Scudder Funds C:
DreHiRC 33.15 -.40 +1.0
Scudder Funds S:
EmMkIn 9.56 +.05 -1.4
EmMkGr r 12.42 -.06 +19.7
GlbDis 24.57 -.42 +11.0
GlobalS 20.75 -.29 +7.2
Gold&Prc 16.97 -.24 +45.9
GroIncS 18.46 -.28 +4.5
HlthCare r 19.71 -.10 +6.4
HiYldTx 12.52 -1.4
Income S 12.77 +.05 -2.5
Intl FdS 34.42 -.29 +6.2
LgCoGro 21.16 -.36 +5.7
LgCoVal 20.97 -.31 +4.1
LatAmr 21.15 +.18 +11.0
MgdMuni S 9.17 +.02 -2.4
MA TF S 14.62 +.01 -2.4
MedTF S 11.41 +.03 -2.7
PacOpps r 10.23 -.09 +19.0
ShtTmBdS 10.61 +.02
Scudder Instl:
FxIncIL 10.95 +.05 -2.2
STMunBd 10.33 +.01 -.8
Scudder Investment:
Eq500Inv 113.9 -1.37 +4.0
PresPlIn r 10 +1.0
SmlCap 20.55 -.51 +13.2
Scudder Premier:
AstMgt 10.17 -.05 +.9
Eq500Pr 115.12 -1.38 +4.0
Security Funds:
CpPrsA 10 +.9
Equity 6.07 -.06 +2.5
Seix Funds Cl I:
HiYld 10.88 +.02 +.3
Selected Funds:
AmSh p 29.13 -.30 +3.0
Seligman Group:
CapFdA t 15.78 -.47 +8.3
CmStkA 9.48 -.20 +3.4
ComunA t 20.93 -.63 +7.3
ComunB t 18.36 -.55 +7.2
ComunD t 18.35 -.54 +7.2
SCMuniA 8.13 +.02 -1.8
Sentinel Group:
BalanA p 15.37 -.09 +3.6
ComS A p 28.36 -.33 +4.8
SmCoA p 6.27 -.10 +8.1
Sequoia 136.42 -.77 +4.9
SkylneEq 25.92 -.41 +10.3
Smith Barney A:
AdjInc p 9.71 +.01 -.1
AgGrA p 78.95 -1.83 +4.5
ApprA p 12.64 -.12 +3.5
BalancA p 11.21 -.08 +2.2
CaMuA p 16.7 -.01 +.7
DivStIn p 6.65 +.02 -1.1
FdValA p 12.58 -.28 +7.7
HiIncA t 6.74 +.01 +2.3
InAlCGA p 11.11 -.10 +4.0
LgCpGA p 19.72 -.40 +8.6
MgMuA p 15.54 -.02 +1.0
MuNY A 13.7 -.01 +1.3
SBCpInc 14.17 -.13 +4.1
Smith Barney B&P:
AgGrB t 71.95 -1.67 +4.3
ApprB t 12.4 -.12 +3.2
CpPrsBII t 11.53 +.02 -2.5
CpPresB p 11.39 +.03 -2.3
DvsInB t 6.69 +.02 -1.0
FValB t 12 -.27 +7.4
LgCpGB t 18.86 -.39 +8.4
MgMuB t 15.55 -.02 +.9
SBCpInc t 14.08 -.13 +4.0
Smith Barn L,O,&I:
AdjIncL 9.67 +.01 -.1
AgGrL t 72.31 -1.68 +4.3
ApprL t 12.41 -.13 +3.2
FdValL 12 -.26 +7.4
LgCapL t 18.85 -.39 +8.4
Smith Barney 1:
GrInc 1 13.1 -.22 +4.4
LgCpCo1 15.86 -.25 +3.9
Smith Barney Y:
AggGroY t 81.29 -1.88 +4.6
ApprY 12.64 -.12 +3.6
LgCpGrY 20.16 -.41 +8.7
SoundSh 30.47 -.41 +6.1
St FarmAssoc:
Balan 45.37 -.20 +1.6
Gwth 41.02 -.36 +4.0
Interm 10.1 +.02 -1.1
Muni 8.69 +.02 -2.6
State Str Resrch A:
AuroraA 33.46 -.80 +15.9
Exchg 463.16 -3.33 +2.3
GlResA 27.41 -.23 +6.6
GvtInA 12.71 +.06 -3.3
State Str Resrch I:
InvTrS 8.39 -.13 +3.8
Strategic Partners:
EquityA 12.79 -.20 +5.5
EquityB 12.58 -.20 +5.4
Stratton Funds:
Dividend 29.8 -.39 +5.5
Strong Funds:
Balanced 17.53 -.18 +1.3
CmStk 19.91 -.39 +7.0
CpBdInv 10.34 +.07 -3.0
Discov 18.33 -.47 +13.7
GovSec 11.05 +.05 -2.6
GroIncInv 17.96 -.28 +3.1
Gr20Inv 11.81 -.25 +4.5
GrwthInv 16.19 -.41 +8.1
HYBdInv 7.37 +.01 +2.7
LgCapGr 19.57 -.39 +3.1
OpptyInv 35.86 -.71 +7.5
Overseas 9.99 -.11 +5.4
ST BdInv 8.83 +.01 -.3
STMuInv 9.8 -.1
SmCapVl 23.82 -.41 +10.2
UltStInv 9.35 +.1
UlStMuInc 4.87 +.1
Strong Fds Advisor:
SCapValA p 23.72 -.40 +10.1
US Value 15.95 -.17 +4.9
Strong Instl Fds:
UlStMuInc 4.87 +.2
SunAmerica Focus:
FLgCpB p 15.11 -.31 +8.2
FLgCpII 15.12 -.30 +8.2
TCU Mtge 9.79 +.02 -.4
TCWGalileo Fds:
SelEqty 15.99 -.27 +12.1
TCWGalileo N:
SelEqN p 15.76 -.27 +12.0
TIAA-CREF Funds:
GroInc 10.36 -.13 +4.2
GroEq 8.07 -.11 +4.8
Templeton Instit:
EmMS p 10.31 -.04 +11.8
ForEqS 14.76 -.17 +10.0
Third Avenue Fds:
RlEstVl r 19.38 -.12 +6.4
SmlCap 16.94 -.26 +13.8
Value 37.95 -.48 +12.9
Thompson Plumb:
Growth 41.16 -.47 +5.2
Thornburg Fds C:
ValueC t 26.05 -.44 +4.0
Thornburg Fds:
LtMuA p 13.84 +.02 -1.2
ValueA 26.63 -.45 +4.1
Torray Funds:
Fund 36.9 -.40 +3.1
Instl 103.43 -1.16 +3.2
Transamer Premier:
AggGwI p 12.71 -.26 +8.0
EquityI 15.2 -.29 +5.1
TCU Govern 9.61 +.01 +.1
Turner Funds:
MidcpGth 20.02 -.60 +12.5
SmlCpGr 19.71 -.59 +21.0
UlShDrFxI 10.14 +.01 +.5
Tweedy Browne:
AmerVal 21.92 -.20 +5.1
GlobVal 17.98 -.13 +8.8
UBS Funds Cl A:
TctAllA 23.07 -.28 +3.8
UBS Funds Cl B:
TctAllB 22.36 -.27 +3.6
UBS Funds Cl C:
TctAllC 22.52 -.28 +3.6
UMB Scout Funds:
World 18.17 -.20 +6.3
US Global Investors:
GldShr 6.71 -.13 +31.6
WldGld 13.01 -.21 +34.3
USAA Group:
AgvGt 23.93 -.34 +5.8
CA Bd 11.01 +.02 -3.7
CrnstStr 23.33 -.23 +3.5
FStrtGr 8.02 -.12 +6.8
GNMA 9.97 +.02 -.8
GrTxStr 14.09 -.05 +.4
Grwth 11.46 -.14 +4.3
Gr&Inc 16.1 -.23 +5.1
IncStk 13.46 -.19 +1.2
Inco 12.33 +.05 -2.4
PrecMM 14.41 -.14 +31.1
S&P Idx 15.23 -.18 +3.9
SciTech 8.3 -.24 +14.0
TxEIt 13.17 +.03 -2.1
TxELT 13.71 +.04 -2.9
TxESh 10.83 +.01 -.3
VA Bd 11.51 +.04 -3.3
WldGr 13.69 -.10 +3.3
UtdAssc500 7.36 -.09 +4.0
Value Line Fd:
Inc&Gro 7.91 -.05 +4.1
Van Kamp Funds A:
AggGrA p 11.28 -.31 +8.0
CmstA p 14.43 -.15 +4.9
EGA p 33.43 -.79 +4.2
EntA p 10.85 -.20 +3.7
EqIncA p 7.31 -.06 +1.8
GvScA p 10.42 +.04 -2.1
GrInA p 16.17 -.19 +3.3
HYMuA p 10.38 +.02 -.7
InTFA p 18.94 +.05 -3.4
MunIA p 14.55 +.04 -3.1
PaceA p 8.07 -.09 +2.3
StrMunInc 12.89 +.03 -1.0
USGvA P 14.19 +.03 +.4
Van Kamp Funds B:
AggGrB p 10.55 -.28 +8.0
CmstB t 14.42 -.15 +4.7
EGB t 29 -.69 +4.0
EnterpB t 10.06 -.19 +3.5
EqIncB t 7.2 -.06 +1.7
GrIncB t 16.03 -.18 +3.0
HYMuB t 10.38 +.02 -.8
Van Kamp Funds C:
ComStkC 14.43 -.15 +4.7
EmGrC t 29.75 -.70 +4.0
EqIncC t 7.23 -.05 +1.7
HYMuC t 10.37 +.02 -.8
Van Wagoner Funds:
PostVnt p 3.24 -1.5
Vanguard Admiral:
AsstAdml 46.58 -.35 +3.4
BalAdml 17.29 -.12 +2.3
CAITAdm 11.31 +.03 -2.5
CALTAdm 11.8 +.04 -3.3
CpOpAdl 51.91 -1.39 +9.2
ExplAdml 55.09 -1.39 +12.4
ExtdAdm 23.97 -.51 +10.6
FLLTAdm 11.81 +.04 -3.5
500Adml 93.69 -1.13 +4.0
GNMA Ad 10.49 +.04 -1.2
GroIncAd 40.89 -.49 +4.5
GrwAdm 23.1 -.33 +5.7
HlthCr 46.65 -.03 +2.9
HiYldCp r 6.17 +.01 +1.1
HiYldAdm 10.6 +.02 -1.8
InsdLTAd 12.78 +.03 -3.1
ITBdAdml 10.73 +.07 -4.0
ITsryAdml 11.49 +.05 -3.2
IntGrAdm 45.67 -.42 +6.7
ITAdml 13.52 +.02 -2.1
ITCrpAd 10.12 +.05 -2.7
LtdTrAd 11.06 +.01 -.5
LTCpAdml 9.08 +.07 -7.6
LTsyAdml 11.34 +.09 -7.8
LT Adml 11.29 +.03 -3.6
MCpAdml 53.32 -1.08 +7.2
NJLTAd 12.09 +.03 -3.3
NYLTAd 11.37 +.03 -3.3
PrmCap r 50.1 -1.05 +7.5
PALTAdm 11.58 +.03 -2.8
ReitAdmr 59.63 -.86 +6.6
STsyAdml 10.74 +.02 -.4
STBdAdml 10.33 +.02 -.7
ShtTrAd 15.77 +.01 +.1
STCrpAd 10.79 +.01 -.4
STFdAd 10.61 +.01 -.7
SmCAdm 20.31 -.46 +12.3
TxMCap r 46.71 -.67 +5.3
TxMGrIn r 45.45 -.54 +4.0
TtlBAdml 10.28 +.04 -2.2
TStkAdm 23.64 -.33 +5.4
USGrAdm 36.29 -.49 +4.4
ValAdml 16.99 -.19 +2.7
WellslAdm 49.21 +.02 -2.6
WelltnAdm 46.25 -.23 +1.3
Windsor 48.35 -.69 +4.9
WdsrIIAd 41.88 -.41 +.9
Vanguard Fds:
AssetA 20.74 -.16 +3.4
CAIT 11.31 +.03 -2.5
CALT 11.8 +.04 -3.3
CapValue 9.06 -.13 +6.6
CapOpp 22.47 -.60 +9.2
DivdGro 10.07 -.09 +4.0
Convrt 12.18 -.10 +5.2
Energy 26.82 -.11 +1.7
EqInc 20.48 -.20 +1.3
Explr 59.28 -1.49 +12.3
FLLT 11.81 +.04 -3.5
GNMA 10.49 +.04 -1.2
GlobEq 13.38 -.14 +9.0
GroInc 25.03 -.30 +4.4
GrthEq 8.48 -.15 +8.0
HYCorp r 6.17 +.01 +1.1
HlthCre 110.52 -.07 +2.9
InflaPro 12.06 +.07 -3.4
IntlGr 14.35 -.13 +6.7
IntlVal 23.03 -.25 +11.3
ITCorp 10.12 +.05 -2.7
ITTsry 11.49 +.05 -3.2
LifeCon 13.9 -.06 +1.5
LifeGro 16.6 -.17 +4.5
LifeInc 12.92 -.01 -.1
LifeMod 15.52 -.10 +2.8
LTCorp 9.08 +.07 -7.6
LTTsry 11.34 +.09 -7.9
Morg 13.51 -.23 +6.6
MuHY 10.6 +.02 -1.8
MuInsLg 12.78 +.03 -3.2
MuInt 13.52 +.02 -2.1
MuLtd 11.06 +.01 -.5
MuLong 11.29 +.03 -3.6
MuShrt 15.77 +.01 +.1
NJLT 12.09 +.03 -3.3
NYLT 11.37 +.03 -3.3
OHLTTE 12.27 +.04 -3.0
PALT 11.58 +.03 -2.8
PrecMtls r 13.95 -.19 +20.7
Prmcp r 48.26 -1.02 +7.4
REIT r 13.97 -.21 +6.5
SelValu r 13.45 -.12 +5.5
STAR 16.06 -.12 +2.3
STCorp 10.79 +.01 -.4
STFed 10.61 +.01 -.7
STTsry 10.74 +.02 -.4
StratEq 16.73 -.38 +10.1
TxMBal r 16.91 -.09 +1.3
TxMCAp r 23.19 -.34 +5.3
TxMGI r 22.11 -.27 +4.0
TxMSC r 15.76 -.31 +12.4
USGro 14.01 -.18 +4.4
USValue 10.94 -.17 +4.0
Wellsly 20.31 +.01 -2.6
Welltn 26.77 -.13 +1.2
Wndsr 14.33 -.20 +4.9
WndsII 23.59 -.23 +.9
Vanguard Idx Fds:
500 93.68 -1.12 +4.0
Balanced 17.29 -.12 +2.3
DevMkt 6.78 -.08 +6.8
EMkt 10.29 -.04 +19.1
Europe 18.83 -.15 +2.9
Extend 23.97 -.50 +10.6
Growth 23.09 -.34 +5.7
ITBnd 10.73 +.07 -4.0
LTBnd 11.47 +.10 -7.7
MidCap 11.75 -.24 +7.2
Pacific 7.23 -.12 +17.0
SmCap 20.3 -.46 +12.3
SmlCpGth 11.94 -.32 +14.9
SmlCpVl 10.15 -.18 +9.4
STBnd 10.33 +.02 -.8
TotBnd 10.28 +.04 -2.2
TotlIntl 9.24 -.09 +7.9
TotStk 23.64 -.33 +5.3
Value 16.99 -.18 +2.7
Vanguard Instl Fds:
BalInst 17.3 -.11 +2.3
DvMktInst 6.73 -.07 +6.8
EuroInst 18.85 -.15 +2.9
ExtIn 23.99 -.51 +10.6
GrwthIst 23.1 -.34 +5.7
InstIdx 92.86 -1.12 +4.0
InsPl 92.87 -1.11 +4.0
TotlBdIdx 51.69 +.21 -2.3
InsTStPlus 21.23 -.30 +5.5
MidCpIst 11.79 -.23 +7.3
STCorIst 10.79 +.01 -.4
SCInst 20.32 -.46 +12.3
TBIst 10.28 +.04 -2.2
TSInst 23.64 -.34 +5.4
ValueIst 16.99 -.19 +2.7
Vantagepoint Fds:
AggrOpp 8.22 -.11 +11.4
AsstAll 6.32 -.05 +3.3
EqInc 7.01 -.07 +3.4
Growth 7.41 -.13 +5.9
Grw&Inc 8.5 -.12 +3.4
IncPresv 100 +.9
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No information available.
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on the American Exchanges Emerging Company Mar-
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in the last year. The 52-week high and low figures date
only from the beginning of trading. pf - Preferred stock
issue. pr - Preferences. pp - Holder owes installments
of purchase price rt - Right to buy security at a speci-
fied price. s - Stock has split by at least 20 percent
within the last year. wi - Trades will be settled when
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high. un - Unit, including more than one security. vj -
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ganized under the bankruptcy law. Appears in front of
the name.
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Annual rate plus stock. c - Liquidating dividend. e -
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dend announcement. i - Sum of dividends paid after
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this year. Most recent dividend was omitted or
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issue with dividends in arrears m - Current annual
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Cancer
doesnt
conquer
mom
By MICHAEL MILLER
Staff Writer
S
KIPP PEARSON remembers
a time almost 40 years ago
when he heard music
coming from an open window in
New York City.
There were these jazz musi-
cians playing in the living room of
an apartment, said the 65-year-
old saxophone player from Or-
angeburg. I told them I was a mu-
sician, too, so they let me stand
inside the door and listen.
Pearson remembers the cama-
raderie in the room, the give-and-
take between players and the
pointers picked up by eager young
musicians.
Four decades later, hes trying
to kindle that same kind of learn-
ing experience in Columbia with
his jazz workshop jam sessions
every Thursday night at the
Hunter-Gatherer brew pub.
Now Pearson is taking it a step
further with the Jazz Resource
Center, a loosely knit organization
he hopes will enrich older, more
established musicians and educate
younger ones.
Wycliffe Gordon, a noted trom-
bonist and former member of the
Wynton Marsalis septet, is in town
to help promote the center, which
shares space with Gallery 701 at
2123 College St.
Gordon will be the featured
performer at tonights Hunter-
Gatherer workshop, and he will
teach two master classes Friday at
Benedict College.
Skipp is doing the same sort
of thing that (jazz saxophonist)
Jackie McLean is doing in Hart-
ford, Conn., Gordon said by
phone from Rochester, N.Y., last
week. Its not exactly community
outreach, but its taking the expe-
rience of a talented player like
Skipp and making it available to
students on the local scene.
Gordon, 36, knows a thing or
two about teaching jazz. He was
full-time instructor at Michigan
State University for two years, and
hes in his second year at the Jazz
A
NYTHING CAN BECOME
sinister at 4:30 in the
morning.
Shadows cast by swaying
limbs become lurking villains.
Sounds caused by scurrying
critters belong to vicious thieves.
Something about those early-
morning hours triggers your
imagination and makes
everything seem worse than it is.
Especially when your child
gets sick.
Ever notice that kids dont
suddenly develop debilitating
headaches or high fevers at 4:30
in the afternoon? No, they wait
until parents are the most
vulnerable, when sleep has
This week, we are profiling
women nominated for The State
Womens Life&Style Expo Phe-
nomenal Woman contest. The win-
ner will be featured Saturday.
A
FTER A CHILDHOOD OF
very little money and few
friends, Lisa Cribb had
every reason to feel as if the
tough times were behind her.
She and her husband, Joe, hap-
pily married for more than 20
years, own a Lexington sandwich
shop that does well and have two
healthy, considerate teenagers.
Then about two years ago, she
got the diagnosis: ovarian cancer.
The prognosis after removal of the
more than four-pound tumor, fol-
lowed by radiation treatment, was
not good. But the misfit kid with
T E L E V I S I O N D 4 C O MI C S D 6 D E A R A B B Y D 7 WWW. T H E S TAT E . C O M
LIFE
&
STYLE
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2003 SECTION D
C O L U MB I A S O U T H C A R O L I NA
Commentary
Phenomenal
women
Music
By LINDA H. LAMB
Staff Writer
I
N A WAY, IT WAS LIKE HOLDING A
moon rock or a relic from Pompeii.xxxxxx
Hands reached out to touch a 4-foot
hunk of mangled steel salvaged from the
World Trade Center, and people saw the
fire, heard the screams and sensed the fear of
that morning of Sept. 11, 2001.
It just makes it so real, said Barbara Berry
of Irmo, who was at the S.C. State Museum on
Sunday with sons Michael and Brad.
Amid displays of shark fossils, textile ma-
chinery, Civil War history and ancient Egypts
King Tutankhamun, the museums 9/11 display
is a jolting encounter with the terrorist attacks
of only two years ago.
Everybody in the world saw it on TV, said
Jim Knight, the museums director of collections.
This gives
them the oppor-
tunity to make
some sort of
physical contact
with it.
The piece of
steel girder is the
focal point, and
the only such
remnant on dis-
play in the state.
Visitors said
they felt awe, sad-
ness and some-
times flashbacks
to the anger of
that day when ter-
rorists flew pas-
senger jets into the
landmark New
York skyscrapers each more than 3 times
the height of Columbias SouthTrust Building.
Adults and some children remembered where
they were when they heard the news.
Twelve-year-old Michael Berry remembered
that later that day, he got into a fight. Bill Yan-
dle of Columbia, who sells produce, remembered
watching the news while working at the State
Farmers Market.
W E R E M E M B E R S E P T . 1 1 , 2 0 0 1
Catastrophes
mute the joy
of 9/11 birthdays,
anniversaries
State Museum
brings visitors
in touch with
horror of attacks
By JOEY HOLLEMAN
Staff Writer
B
EFORE 2001, PEOPLE BORN OR wed
on the 11th day of the ninth month cel-
ebrated on that date without a second
thought.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Two years after the horrific events that
made Sept. 11 a day of infamy, the celebrations
of life events on that date bring pause.
Do you scale down your celebration to honor
those who lost their lives? Do you maintain tra-
ditions to show the terrorists didnt win? Do you
shift the celebration to another day? Its a deci-
sion people wish they didnt have to make.
Its always going to be our anniversary, said
Bill Funderburk of Camden. Its just theres al-
ways going to be something bigger than that on
our anniversary.
Funderburk and his wife, Laurie, married on
Sept. 11, 1999. They delayed commemorating their
second anniversary for about a month and had a
muted celebration last year. Like most people in-
terviewed, they wont make the concession of
shifting their special day to another date.
Thats the day we got married, and we cant
change it any more than I can change what hap-
pened (on Sept. 11, 2001), Bill Funderburk said.
There are good memories and bad memories with
every day.
John and Tracy
Beckham of Co-
lumbia were mar-
ried Sept. 11, 1993.
They plan to go out
tonight with an-
other couple who
have a Sept. 11 an-
niversary.
We are not go-
ing to let the terror-
ists change our
lives, John Beck-
ham said.
For some, how-
ever, the terrorist
plane crashes in
New York, Washington and Pennsylvania created
psychic wounds slow to heal. Mike and Kim
Lanier of Blythewood were married Sept. 11, 1999.
A 32-year veteran of the National Guard, Mike
Lanier lost friends in the Pentagon crash and a
few months later during the campaign in
Afghanistan to root out al-Qaeda leader Osama
bin Laden.
Its kind of taken the spice out of the an-
niversary, Mike Lanier said. I dont want to cel-
ebrate out of respect for the people who lost their
lives.
Theyre not going to take away the impor-
tance of the day to us, but I look at the day a lit-
tle bit differently now.
MUTED BIRTHDAYS
Little Bryeton Morris turned 1 on Sept. 11,
2001. The family birthday party went ahead with
fewer smiles. His mom, Rosanne Morris, asked
everyone to bring along something to put in a time
capsule the family will open on Bryetons 10th
birthday. Maybe then hell be old enough to be-
gin understanding how life in America changed
that day.
Rosanne Morris, who works at Table Rock
State Park, plans to take the day off each year
and spend it with Bryeton. Shes not sure about
throwing big parties on that day, however.
All the people who were devastated, you just
dont feel right, she said.
Noelle Kirszenbaum of Columbia agrees.
For the next 10 years or so, maybe, its going
FILE PHOTO/THE STATE
First lady Jenny Sanfords
birthday is Sept. 11.
SEAN RAYFORD/THE STATE
Visitors to the State Museum touch the girder
from the World Trade Center in the
Remembering 9/11 exhibit.
SEAN RAYFORD/THE STATE
Beaufort Middle School student Jessica Hurl reaches to touch a piece of steel girder
from the World Trade Center currently on display at the S.C. State Museum.
SEE 9/11 PAGE D3 SEE CELEBRATIONS PAGE D3
SEE JAZZ PAGE D5
IF YOU GO
Wycliffe Gordon,
with local jazz all-stars
When: 9 tonight
Where: Hunter-Gatherer,
901 S. Main St.
Admission: $6 at the door
Contact: (803) 748-0540
Master classes: For
information about Wycliffe
Gordons classes Friday at
Benedict College, call Skipp
Pearson at (803) 348-6132
or Mark Rouse at
(803) 730-8127.
Lezlie
Patterson
Family Affairs
lpatterson@thestate.com
(803) 407-9075
Noted trombonist Wycliff
Gordon is in town to help
promote Skipp Pearsons
Jazz Resource Center.
IF YOU GO
The State Womens
Life&Style Expo, featuring
Maya Angelou
When: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sat-
urday
Where: Carolina Center
Tickets: $10 for adults; $5 for
students with ID. Look for
$2-off coupons in the news-
paper. Also, you can avoid the
lines Saturday and buy ad-
vance tickets at the box of-
fice, at The State (1401 Shop
Road), any Midlands Publix
grocery store or www.ticket-
master.com or by calling
(803) 783-2222.
SEE FEVER PAGE D5
SEE CRIBB PAGE D3
PAT BERMAN/THE STATE
Lisa Cribb
A fever
in the night?
No sweat
Musician slides into town to teach jazz enthusiasts
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MEMORIES SURFACE
I was coming back from the
barbers, on Trenholm Road, said
Paul Roberts of Columbia, who
heard about the terrorist attacks
on the radio.
He and his wife, Gloria, went
to the museum to see the display
on 9/11.
We are distanced, but we all
felt it, she said.
On the day of the attacks, she
was working at the Kmart on Two
Notch Road, in the TV and video
department. People started stream-
ing in wanting to watch television.
But they couldnt, because the sets
for sale carry only an in-store
video feed.
News-hungry people took tele-
visions to take to work.
I sold TVs like crazy that day,
Roberts said.
The small museum exhibit in-
cludes an American flag, a sheet
of commemorative postage stamps
and childrens artwork about the
attack. There are three pho-
tographs of the days disasters, in-
cluding one taken from the Inter-
national Space Station and one of
the damage at the Pentagon.
Theres also a memory book in
which some visitors have recorded
their thoughts:
I was pulling into the Piggly
Wiggly parking lot when I heard
the horrific news.
United we stand!
Speechless.
God bless America.
We will never forget.
Tim Dowdey of West Columbia
will never forget the view from the
World Trade Center a stunning
45 miles in every direction. He
made the ascent into the massive
south tower in 1998, when his
class at Grace Christian School
took its senior trip to New York
City.
No wonder he looked pensive
as he ran his fingers over the rem-
nant of the towers collapse.
I was pretty outraged when it
happened, he said.
Added his wife, Tali: Its very
sobering to think of all the people
who were killed.
EMOTIONS LINGER
Lori Gibson and Greg
Smeriglio went to high school in
Clifton, N.J., about 11 miles from
the World Trade Center in lower
Manhattan.
My brother saw the whole
thing come down, Gibson said.
My father couldnt get out of
the city that day, Smeriglio said.
The 23-year-olds were far away
in Columbia in September 2001,
both attending USC.
I woke up hearing the news,
and I thought I was dreaming, he
said. I immediately called my fam-
ily. Everyone was all right.
Gibson said her father, a police
officer, helped in the aftermath of
the attacks. Though a New Jersey
native, she never got to visit the
World Trade Center, but many in
her hometown lost loved ones on
9/11.
I still get really emotional
about it, Gibson said. She said she
might discuss it today with stu-
dents at Spring Valley High
School, where she is a student
teacher.
The piece of salvaged steel is
on loan from the Port Authority of
New York and New Jersey, but
museum officials hope it will re-
main here and eventually be part
of a permanent display on 9/11.
Already, one edge of the beam
is shiny from where people have
touched it.
Knight sees value in its ability
to generate emotion, whether
shock, anger or grief.
It dredges it all up, he said. I
guess its all part of the healing
process. You learn to live with the
pain.
Reach Lamb at (803) 771-8454
or llamb@thestate.com.
the handmade clothes had long
ago learned to stand up for her-
self.
You just go. You just have to.
You cant lay down and die, Cribb
said.
While she received radiation
treatments, her mother had a heart
attack. Cribb made critical-care de-
cisions during her mothers hos-
pitalization.
I had to be there for my
daddy, she said.
She and friend Lori Housley
are volunteer football moms for
White Knoll High Schools junior
varsity team, on which her son
David has played.
We fatten them up with hot
dogs and pizza parties, Cribb
joked.
The cancer diagnosis separated
the friends from the acquain-
tances, Cribb said.
All my so-called friends
walked away, but (Lori) never did.
Pat Berman
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of the Remembering 9/11 exhibit at the S.C. State Museum.
9/11
FROMPAGE D1
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FROMPAGE D1
to be where you cant go out and
have a big party on that day, said
Kirszenbaum, who turns 28 today.
The year it happened and the
next year, no one was in a cele-
bration type of mode.
She decided to go out with
some friends this year, but it wont
be a big blast. That doesnt bother
her.
It would be selfish for me to
say, Its my birthday. I cant be-
lieve it had to happen on my birth-
day, said Kirszenbaum, a hair
stylist who sent all of her tips to
New York charities for a week af-
ter Sept. 11, 2001.
Emily Jones of Columbia
turned 40 on that day.
I was a little depressed about
(hitting 40), and it rapidly put that
into perspective, she said.
She never has been one for
birthday blowouts, and any cele-
bration is much more solemn now.
But Jones has noticed an interest-
ing trend.
Since then, friends go out of
their way to do special things for
me around my birthday, she said.
Its like they feel sorry for me for
having a birthday on that day.
One of the more prominent
people in the state has a Sept. 11
birthday First Lady Jenny San-
ford. She said the way she looked
at the date had changed.
Its the equivalent of being
born on Dec. 7 for those in my par-
ents generation who remember
living through Pearl Harbor, she
said. I think it probably affects
younger kids who were born on
Sept. 11 more than it does me,
which I can see in the fact that my
boys have asked me about it and
said things like, Mom, doesnt it
bother you that Sept. 11 is your
birthday?
Its still my birthday, though.
Im still going to celebrate with my
family, but its obviously a day that
my family like all families in
America is going to stop and
think about things like freedom
and how important it is to our
lives.
Reach Holleman at
(803) 771-8366 or
jholleman@thestate.com.
9/11
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3 years, 3 men,
1 common bond 9/11
By JEFF STENSLAND
Staff Writer
A recent TV ad tells viewers a
little about who Inez Tenenbaum
is, where she came from, and
some political observers say
what she is not.
Subtly, they say, the ad affirms
that the Democratic U.S. Senate
nominee is not Jewish.
Tenenbaum is Methodist; her
husband is Jewish.
I think it was designed to iden-
tify her as a Protestant, said Col-
lege of Charleston political science
professor Bill Moore. Its a way
to appeal to the conservative con-
stituents in the state.
Moore and others say religion
SEE RELIGION PAGE A5
By MIRIAM HILL
Knight Ridder Newspapers
NEW YORK Richard Collins still has days when
memories of Sept. 11 paralyze him.
John Ryan has mostly shut those memories away,
but they come flooding back when he sees the name
of a lost colleague or watches politicians debate the
war in Iraq.
Sekou Siby finally has overcome his fear of mak-
ing friends at work but leaves his house every day
knowing it is possible he might not return.
By CHRIS DEARING
Special Correspondent
If the game between third-ranked
Georgia and South Carolina can live up
to the hype and hoopla surrounding it,
the expected 85,000 fans in attendance
today will be in for a battle.
ESPNs College GameDay crew
rolled into town Friday afternoon, and
between 500 and 600 enthusiastic Game-
cock faithful greeted Chris Fowler, Lee
Corso and Kirk Herbstreit as they taped
segments for ESPNs SportsCenter
telecast.
The response wasnt lost on Fowler.
Sometimes, we have less than 10
people on Friday, Fowler said. This is
one of the bigger turnouts for a Friday
SportsCenter segment that weve had.
Its especially tremendous since this
isnt on the quad or anything. It definitely
makes it a great show and a lot of fun
for us. It also makes a great show for the
viewers when you have this type of at-
mosphere. If we have the same type of
turnout Saturday, its going to be awe-
some.
The crowd was made up mostly of
USC students and a few professional
types who brought their coolers and
homemade signs to show their support
of South Carolina football.
A group of female USC students wore
I Love Kirk shirts and were in the front
row of the crowd surrounding the set.
They shouted, We love you, Kirk, on a
number of occasions.
We love Kirk, but we also love the
Gamecocks and hate Georgia, Ashleigh
Fay said.
She was joined by friends Katie
Sauer, Meagan Mueller, Brittany Clark
and Amy Walker. On the back of their
I love Kirk shirts were the numbers of
various USC players.
Kevin Jones, a longtime Columbia
resident, was here Nov. 10, 2001, when
SEE 9/11 PAGE A5 SEE TOWNS PAGE A7
Kirk Herbstreit signs autographs after taping the SportsCenter segment. SEE TAPING PAGE A6
GameDay sets up
USC-Georgia matchup
matters in South Carolina, for bet-
ter or for worse. And whether vot-
ers really care about specific reli-
gious affiliation, campaigns have
used it as a wedge issue.
Tenenbaums faith has been
used by opponents in past elec-
tions, largely based on the mis-
conception that she is Jewish.
Religious affiliation has other-
wise not been raised in the cur-
rent race with Jim DeMint, a Pres-
byterian.
The ads emphasis on Tenen-
baums mother as a Sunday
school teacher could be a way to
pre-empt the issue, said USC po-
litical science professor Brad
Gomez.
Tenenbaum declined com-
ment, but a spokeswoman said the
ad is only intended to highlight
the candidates faith, not disasso-
ciate herself from any particular
denomination.
South Carolinians in general
are people of strong faith, Kay
Packett said. We want to know
that a candidate has strong val-
ues, but once we know that, we
vote based on specific concerns.
If talking generically about
faith and values is fair game, some
campaigns havent always played
by those rules.
Tenenbaum and state Rep. Joel
Lourie, D-Richland, were the tar-
gets of a flier in 1998 that referred
to the two as anti-Christian Jew-
ish Democrats and urged voters
to support their Christian oppo-
nents.
In the 1994 race for lieutenant
governor, rival Democrat Liz Pat-
terson claimed Tenenbaum was
getting much of her financial sup-
port from the Jewish commu-
nity. Patterson later apologized
for the remark.
Part of the reason religion and
faith are a central issue in some
campaigns is because South Car-
olina is home to more than 2 mil-
lion Christian church members.
The states second leading religion
is Judaism, with about 10,000 ad-
herents statewide.
Some non-Christians, espe-
cially Jews, have achieved great
success in local South Carolina
politics. But the record of non-
Christians holding statewide of-
fice has not been as strong.
One notorious example of re-
ligion-baiting occurred in the 1978
4th Congressional District race.
Many Democrats believe an anti-
Semitic third-party candidate was
enlisted by supporters of Repub-
lican Carroll Campbell to help de-
feat Democrat Max Heller, the
Jewish mayor of Greenville.
Tenenbaums husband,
Samuel Tenenbaum, for years
held a personal grudge against top
GOP strategist Lee Atwater,
whom he blamed for engineering
the stunt.
Campbell has repeatedly de-
nied involvement.
In the recent Lexington County
House primary race, Nikki Haley
was the target of an e-mail cam-
paign that falsely claimed she was
a Buddhist and urged voters to
support incumbent Larry Koon, a
Christian. Haley attends both a
Methodist church and a Sikh tem-
ple with her family.
Not all appeals to voters reli-
gious prejudices are that overt.
Several supporters of Rep.
Lourie, who is running for a state
Senate seat, say they have re-
ceived calls from push pollsters
in recent weeks. The callers asked
if they knew Louries Republican
opponent, Ken Wingate, was a
born-again Christian.
Wingate denied any connec-
tion to that poll, but the fact that
hes a born-again Christian was
raised in a separate poll he spon-
sored during the Republican pri-
mary.
Youre dealing with a differ-
ent universe of voters in a Re-
publican primary, he said. I
specifically would not allow that
question to be asked in this poll
because I dont want to inject re-
ligion into the race.
The effectiveness of blatant re-
ligious appeals is debatable. Ha-
ley won her race against Koon
and, as superintendent of educa-
tion, Tenenbaum is the states
highest ranking Democrat.
Campbell won his congres-
sional bid, but the then-future gov-
ernor was hounded by accusations
he harbored anti-Semitic views.
Political observers say the charge
prevented him from being Bob
Doles vice presidential pick in
1996.
Some voters say theyve
soured on the use of religion in
political races. Changing demo-
graphics in the state also mean
voters may not be easily pigeon-
holed.
Caralynne Gill, a Pontiac re-
tiree, said shes more likely to vote
for Lourie after speaking with a
telephone pollster who stressed
Wingates Christianity.
I know a lot of people who
have a (religious) litmus test, but
I think its a turn-off, she said.
Theres a lot of people like me
who vote for the candidate and
where they stand on issues.
But many social issues have
become entwined with religion
and party politics, and some say
Tenenbaums faith is not nearly
as important as her identification
as a Democrat.
Groups across the political and
religious spectrum often hand out,
during services, scorecards that
rate candidates on a number of is-
sues important to church-goers,
like abortion.
Those issues tend to favor Re-
publican candidates among con-
servative voters, said the College
of Charlestons Moore.
The bottom line is, you now
have the Republican Party being
perceived as the party defending
values, he said. Whether or not
a Democrat can now win a
statewide seat like U.S. Senate in
South Carolina is yet to be seen.
Reach Stensland
at (803) 771-8358
or jstensland@thestate.com.
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RELIGION
FROMPAGE A1
Three New Yorkers, three years
out one who was there, one who
was nearby, one who was miles
away. They are like everyone else,
moving forward, getting past it.
Yet they are not like everyone
else, or even like each other. All
they hold in common is that each
was marked by that unspeakable,
bright blue September morning.
THE ENGINEER
Richard Collins, 47, loved being
an engineer at the World Trade
Center the machines as big as
houses, the tight relationships he
formed there.
He was on the seventh floor of
the North Tower at 8:46 a.m. when
the first plane struck.
I was alongside the 50 car, the
main freight elevator for the build-
ing, and when the plane came
through it snapped the cables. I
could hear (people) screaming
when they were coming down the
shaft.
Moments later, flaming jet fuel
and a steel beam smashed into the
room, blocking the door. Collins
broke it down with a heavy pipe and
collapsed on the stairway. Other
building workers carried him out-
side.
He was across West Street,
struggling to make his way back
into the building to turn on its fire
pumps, when the South Tower col-
lapsed at 9:59, burying him in rub-
ble, ash and debris. He took a deep
breath like breathing the bottom
of a vacuum cleaner bag and
clawed his way out.
It took Collins 17 hours to make
his way home to Circleville, N.Y.,
73 miles from Manhattan, where he
had moved his family after the 1993
World Trade Center bombing.
Today he suffers from post-trau-
matic stress disorder, knee injuries,
hearing loss and lung damage that
makes breathing difficult. Doctors
have removed glass from his eyes
and fragments of other materials
from other parts of his body.
After the attacks, he was with-
drawn and morose, then angry.
Even with therapy, his problems
were serious enough that he and his
wife almost divorced last year. He
says their reconciliation proceeded
like the punchline of the old joke
about how porcupines make love:
Very carefully.
Sept. 11, 2001, was the last day
he worked. A settlement from the
Victims Compensation Fund helps
pay the bills.
You have to understand, I had
a kind of post-traumatic stress dis-
order that went right off the scale.
I couldnt read. I couldnt answer
the phone. I had to learn to do
everything all over again.
Today, he will turn off the tele-
phone and the television, and he will
remember.
I just feel so very, very terrible
for all the people who are without
sons and daughters, without
spouses, without friends. The attack
cut a hole larger than 3,000 people.
I have my doctors and my wife,
who has been so incredibly kind. I
feel incredibly lucky.
THE LAWYER
In many ways, John Ryans life
now is the same as it was three
years ago. The 44-year-old lawyer
still commutes from his Upper East
Side home to his office five blocks
south of the World Trade Center
site. He still helps clients navigate
the maze of employee benefits.
But every once in a while some-
thing reminds him, and the memo-
ries return the planes flying over
the Hudson River toward the tow-
ers, the long trek home with thou-
sands of others, their faces dusted
gray, the stop at the barbershop that
made his wife mad because it
slowed his return.
He had called her to say he was
all right before getting to the bar-
bershop, but not after.
She thought that was insensi-
tive on my part, sort of like Nero, I
guess. I didnt think an extra 20
minutes was going to matter.
He has largely shut those mem-
ories away, so much so that he al-
most forgot today would be the third
anniversary.
On a daily basis, you dont re-
ally think about it. Ill come across
a document signed by somebody
who died in the tragedy, and it
comes back. I think about them and
what they went through.
The moment of hope he felt in
the aftermath that a country riven
by self-interest would unite has
soured. Like many New Yorkers, he
is angry that the Republicans held
their convention here.
It just reminds me of the Maine
so much, he said, referring to the
U.S. battleship whose mysterious
sinking in 1898 was used to justify
the Spanish-American war. They
take a tragedy that really is painful
to people and then use it as an ex-
cuse to create a war that as far as I
can tell had nothing to do with the
tragedy.
Despite his anger, he describes
himself as a conservative Democ-
rat who is not opposed to the war
in Iraq, just to the Bush adminis-
trations justifications for it.
And while he plans to vote for
John Kerry, he doesnt have a lot of
faith in Democrats, either.
I think both political parties
have lost the idea of what I feel
America is all about the freedoms
we are supposed to have, the free-
doms in the Constitution, and the
role government should play in our
lives.
THE BANQUET COOK
On Sept. 11, 2001, Sekou Siby
normally would have been work-
ing as a banquet cook at the Win-
dows on the World restaurant on
the 107th floor of the World Trade
Centers North Tower. But he had
filled in for someone else that Sun-
day, so he had Tuesday off.
When he saw the towers smol-
dering on television, he knew his
cousin and co-worker, Abdoul
Karim Traore, probably was dead.
Nevertheless, he clung to hope.
His hope crashed with the tow-
ers.
Now, he remembers Traore
and helps care for his cousins wife
and children in the Bronx home
their two families share.
After the disaster, Siby, a 39-
year-old native of Ivory Coast,
drove a cab and briefly worked as
a security guard, both solitary jobs
that allowed him to avoid connec-
tions.
I didnt want to make friends.
I didnt want to go through a griev-
ing process again.
But his Muslim faith sustained
him, and his fear of further sad-
ness has eased enough to allow
him to do outreach for the Restau-
rant Opportunities Center, created
after Sept. 11 to help displaced
restaurant workers.
Every day, when he leaves his
house, he tells his wife and his
daughter born three weeks af-
ter the 2001 attacks that he
loves them, and makes sure they
know where he is going.
In a certain way, he said of
Sept. 11, it helped me understand
certain things that I wouldnt be-
fore.
Now I know you may leave
your home and never make it back.
9/11
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WORLD
Briefs
about the men and women over-
seas, many of whom went from be-
ing accountants and salespeople
one day to soldiers the next.
As this years presidential elec-
tion draws near, Democrats see
those shifts and worries as an op-
portunity to pick up support in ar-
eas where President Bush is ex-
pected to be strong.
Republicans are not worried,
and, so far, there is little evidence
that they should fret.
THEY WANT . . . OUT
Florence, Beaufort and Hi-
nesville, Ga. home of Fort Stew-
art all have sent troops to the
battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Many of those soldiers sud-
denly were pulled from more or-
dinary lives to carry out extraor-
dinary duties. Guardsmen and
reservists make up 40 percent of
the U.S. troops in Iraq.
They left families to cope with
their absences and with fears they
might not return.
But last week, nothing in these
towns suggested despair or anger.
Edward Robinson, a Democrat
on Florence City Council, said the
deployment of reservists and
guardsmen from the Pee Dee has
been a strain for some local fami-
lies and has fed resentment toward
the Bush administration.
Ive heard from people who
signed up to make (the military) a
career and now theyre not,
Robinson said. They want to get
out of this thing any way they can.
But that is not a sentiment that
troops, who traditionally stay
above the political fray, are willing
to share publicly.
They are handling it, but there
is some frustration, said Barry
Wingard, a retired Army colonel
who was in the National Guard in
Florence.
Wingard is backing Bushs op-
ponent, U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-
Mass., but he is working against a
Republican tide in Florence.
Brad Gomez, a political science
professor at USC, said there does
seem to be some resentment to-
ward Bush over his Iraq policy.
The question is whether Kerry can
really take advantage of it.
Bush won Florence County four
years ago, and the Republican
presidential nominee in 1996, for-
mer U.S. Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas,
carried the county in his unsuc-
cessful run against Bill Clinton.
Beaufort, home of the Marine
Corps Air Station, has been Re-
publican territory in recent years,
too.
Whatever fears and frustrations
people in the area feel with the war
are buried under a wave of pride
and patriotism.
We Support Our Troops plac-
ards and God Bless America
bumper stickers are common
sights in a town known for the
stately homes and moss-draped
oaks that line Bay Street.
Democrats recently opened a
campaign office on Bay Street.
There, they have greeted a steady
stream of walk-ins who ask for
lawn signs and bumper stickers.
People have been pouring into
our offices, said Jane Frederick,
local Democratic Party chair-
woman. And, for Beaufort, thats
a little unusual.
U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson, the Lex-
ington County Republican who
represents Beaufort in Congress,
said he sees no evidence the call-
ups and deployments threaten sup-
port for Bush this fall.
Certainly, when several hun-
dred troops and squadrons are sent
away, there is some impact, said
Wilson, a retired S.C. Army Na-
tional Guard colonel. But I would
tell you its minimal when com-
pared to my concern another at-
tack on the United States.
Wilson, whose son is in Iraq in
the Army, said people in his dis-
trict understand that weve got to
confront the terrorists overseas.
A recent four-day tour of his
district confirmed that thinking,
Wilson said. Everywhere I went,
there was strong support for the
presidents efforts.
What Wilson said he found in
his district matches what pollsters
have noted.
A poll of 11 Southern states
conducted for the Atlanta Journal-
Constitution in May found more
support for Bush in the South than
in the country as a whole. And,
while many of those serving in Iraq
and Afghanistan are from this re-
gion, Southerners also were more
supportive of the presidents han-
dling of the war in Iraq .
MORALE . . . IS HIGH
Since Sept. 11, 2001, Bush has
staked his re-election on his role
as commander in chief. Stops at
military bases are staples of his
campaign.
The president already has
made multiple trips to Fort Stew-
art in Hinesville, home to the 3rd
Infantry Division, which led the
Armys drive to Baghdad.
Kenny Smiley is director of the
Liberty County Chamber of Com-
merce, whose members include
the businesses in the area near
Fort Stewart. He said recent de-
ployments have not resulted in the
economic blow to the area that
was felt during the Gulf War.
Back in 92, it was like a ghost
town, said Smiley, adding mili-
tary spouses left the area while
their loved ones were deployed.
This time, we were a lot better
prepared.
Smiley said local businesses of-
fered free dinners and other dis-
counts to entice military families
to stay. Hinesville City Council also
formed a military affairs commit-
tee to work with the base and mil-
itary families.
Military families in the area are
generally happy, said Chris Payne,
a military specialist U.S. Rep. Jack
Kingston, the Republican whose
district includes Hinesville.
The morale of the troops at
Fort Stewart is high, said Payne,
a lieutenant colonel in the Army
who is working for Kingston while
on a fellowship.
The soldiers understand the
seriousness of what theyre doing.
They understand that its con-
nected to the larger war on terror.
They see it.
Residents of the area also see
it, Payne said. Theyre very, very
supportive of the military, espe-
cially in that part of Georgia.
Indeed, people interviewed last
week in Florence, Beaufort and Hi-
nesville expressed only pride in
the service of local military per-
sonnel.
U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, the Co-
lumbia Democrat who represents
Florence in Congress, said people
are making a special attempt to
embrace the men and women in
the military.
Theres another part to this
equation, and its Vietnam,
Clyburn said. There are people
who are hell-bent on making
sure we dont make the same
mistakes of Vietnam the lack
of appreciation the troops were
shown.
That effort has muted criticism
of Bushs policies and kept the Re-
publican president on track for
more electoral success in the
South, Clyburn said.
Reach Washington
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A coffee shop in Hinesville, Ga., shows its support for U.S. troops in 2003.
TIM DOMINICK/THE STATE
Business at Michael Falcones Italian restaurant in Florence
has slowed down in the last few months.
TOWNS
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Clinton compels
others to check hearts
Hospitals around the country
are seeing a surge theyre calling
Clinton syndrome as worried
middle-aged men take the former
presidents heart problems to heart
and rush to get their own tickers
checked.
HeartCheck America said 60
calls for appointments came in on
Tuesday to the two Chicago-area
centers it operates jointly with the
University of Illinois. Typically they
get 20 calls.
The celebrity effect seems
to be affecting doctors, too.
Some doctors sent patients di-
rectly for angiograms without
doing the usual treadmill stress
tests first.
A lot of people are saying
maybe the stress test isnt screen-
ing well enough, because Clin-
ton reportedly had normal ones
despite his severe blockages, said
Dr. Mark Furman, director of in-
terventional cardiology at the
UMass Memorial Medical Cen-
ter.
Former President Bill Clinton
left New York Presbyterian Hos-
pital and returned home Friday,
four days after undergoing heart
bypass surgery, his office said.
Accused Army
deserter surrenders
CAMP ZAMA, Japan Accused
U.S. Army deserter Charles Jenk-
ins surrendered at a U.S. military
base near Tokyo today to face
charges that he left his army unit
in 1965 and defected to North Ko-
rea.
Jenkins, 64, turned himself in
at the U.S. Armys Camp Zama,
accompanied by his Japanese wife
and two daughters.
He saluted and stood at atten-
tion before entering the provost
marshals office to be put back on
active duty as a sergeant.
Jenkins faces a maximum sen-
tence of life in prison if convicted.
Few sign up for
Medicare drug plan
WASHINGTON Far from the ex-
pected deluge, relatively few pa-
tients with cancer and other seri-
ous illnesses have applied for
generous early Medicare pre-
scription drug coverage.
The Bush administration was
planning a lottery to determine
who would get the 50,000 slots
included in last years Medicare
prescription drug law. Instead,
just 6,364 people have applied
for the head start on drug insur-
ance for costly cancer medicines
taken orally and self-injectable
drugs for multiple sclerosis,
rheumatoid arthritis and other
diseases.
Patient advocates and physi-
cians blame the low enrollment on
several problems: The government
scared off some people by using
the term lottery and hasnt pub-
licized the program enough. In ad-
dition, it came up with an intimi-
dating application for people with
debilitating, life-threatening ill-
nesses.
Powell says he thinks
bin Laden still alive
WASHINGTON Three years af-
ter the devastating Sept. 11 at-
tacks, Secretary of State Colin
Powell said he believes Osama bin
Laden is still alive, in hiding and
on the run.
But the al Qaeda network has
been decimated at top levels, Pow-
ell said.
It does have the capacity to re-
generate itself, he said. But any
future leaders are not as accom-
plished or experienced as those
who have been taken out in the
U.S. campaign that overthrew the
Taliban in Afghanistan and hunted
down al Qaeda operatives, Powell
said.
Anti-Kerry group
raises $6.7 million
WASHINGTON Swift Boat Vet-
erans for Truth, an advocacy
group that jolted the presidential
race with commercials question-
ing Sen. John Kerrys military ser-
vice, said it has raised $6.7 million
in a windfall brought about by the
groups high profile in recent
weeks.
Several of the largest donors
are longtime supporters of Presi-
dent Bush, according to a financial
disclosure report filed Friday with
the Federal Election Commission.
The largest contributor was T.
Boone Pickens, a Texas oilman
who was a major political backer
of Bushs father. Pickens con-
tributed $500,000 to the Swift Boat
group.
From Wire Reports
By CHUCK CRUMBO
Staff Writer
Most of the South Carolina coast appeared to be
in the clear Saturday night as Hurricane Ophelia
dithered in the Atlantic, trying to decide what to do
next.
The National Hurricane Cen-
ter said the storm appeared on
track to make landfall some-
where between the state line and
Wilmington, N.C., around 1 p.m.
Tuesday.
Still, the forecast added that
tropical-force winds could rake
the coast as far south as George-
town.
Except for the extreme (north) end of the state,
the storm is not really much of an issue, said Jim
Kilmer of the National Weather Service in Columbia.
No one at the state Emergency Preparedness Di-
vision was ready to say the state, which was under a
hurricane watch all day Saturday, was in the clear.
Tune in to the storm in the morning, said Joe
Farmer, agency spokesman.
On Saturday, authorities watched the storm as it
spun more than 255 miles east-southeast of
Charleston, drifting to the northwest and then back
to the north at about 2 mph.
Ophelia remained a category 1 hurricane with sus-
By T.D. MOBLEY-MARTINEZ
Staff Writer
It might be their only currency now:
the stories and the feelings evacuees
offer in a cocoon of TV camera lights
and inside the silent embrace of news-
paper quote marks.
Im so lucky, they say over and
over and against all reason.
As many as 700 evacuees have
trickled into Columbia by now in
planes, buses and cars often stuffed
with little more than passengers.
The nightmares most reveal arent
of the Superdome, of shots fired, of
floating bodies tied to poles. They are
somehow smaller but just as potent:
the isolation, the catastrophic upheaval
and numbing uncertainty.
Two families will tell you such sto-
ries even as they go about rebuilding
their lives in Columbia.
The Braileys came first. Two adults,
two teens and one 3-year-old in a baby
After 9/11, Lainie Petersen
traveled to New York City with
her husband, Ray. She gave
blood.
Back in Columbia, Petersen
couldnt get 9/11 out of her mind.
I just kept thinking, We
need to do something, said Pe-
tersen, 35, a legal secretary in
the Nelson Mullins Riley & Scar-
borough law firm. She had spent
10 years in New York and, fresh
out of high school, worked as a
clerk at the World Trade Center.
She had friends working there
when terrorists struck four years
ago today, killing more than
3,000 in New York, Washington
and Pennsylvania. Fortunately,
her New York friends survived.
Partly because of her ties to
New York, and partly because
she was so affected by the
tragedy, Petersen kept wanting
to do something, anything, to
help. But living 600 miles away,
what could she do?
She would write the families
of the 9/11 victims, expressing
her condolences.
It wouldnt matter if the fami-
lies didnt write back; they would
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Consoling 9/11 families, 1 letter at a time
Support grows
for gas drilling
off S.C. coast
Hurricane now forecast to make
landfall between S.C. border
and Wilmington, N.C.
Columbia woman works to send
sympathy note to every family
S.C. may
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almost as much as two wars.
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The unprecedented mass exodus
of people could unleash changes
for years to come.
Page A13
Who is to blame for the
incompetence after Katrinas
landfall? A look at local, state and
federal failures. Page A14
See New Orleans through the
eyes of The State photographer
Jill Richards. Page D6
INSIDE TODAY
How 9/11 and Hurricane
Katrina compare as
economic disasters.
Sunday Business
How the war in
Afghanistan is going four
years after 9/11. Impact
Ambitious plans on paper,
but not much on the
ground at the World Trade
Center site. Page A4
LATEST
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KATRINAS WAKE
A tale of two families
INSIDE TODAY
But it just hurts
Evacuees must struggle through memories before planning a future
By LAUREN MARKOE
Washington Bureau
Some top S.C. lawmakers are pushing for a
change in federal law that would allow drilling for
natural gas off the Palmetto States tourist-laden coast.
With rising oil prices and Hurricane Katrina high-
lighting weaknesses in the nations energy supply
chain, proponents of natural gas exploration say vast
supplies of untapped fuel are just waiting off the U.S.
coastline including South Carolinas.
It is illegal to drill for natural gas off much of the
nations shores. But plans to lift federal moratoriums
are gaining momentum in Washington.
While only the federal government can permit
drilling, well-placed S.C. lawmakers are pushing for
the change, arguing it could mean a windfall in gas
royalties for the state.
We should be allowed to opt in (to drilling) if we
Katrina, rising oil prices
fueling proposal
SEE DRILLING PAGE A10
SEE OPHELIA PAGE A10
SEE LETTERS PAGE A11
SEE FAMILIES PAGE A15
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Pete Brailey wipes away tears while talking about starting over in Columbia as his daughter Asia, 3, checks on him. The family
evacuated New Orleans and is staying with Braileys mother in Irmo.
INSIDE SPORTS
By AMY WESTFELDT
The Associated Press
NEW YORK The tourists from Cal-
ifornia peered through the slats of a
metal fence surrounding the World
Trade Center site, looking down into
the nearly empty 16 acres for a sign
of what happened here Sept. 11, 2001.
Four years after terrorists hijacked
jetliners that destroyed the twin tow-
ers, Steve and Marta Pilling thought
they would find a memorial, some-
thing more than the names of the
2,749 victims on panels attached to
the fence.
This reminds me more of a con-
struction site, not the ground zero
etched in Americans consciousness,
said Steve Pilling of Murietta, Calif.
That the downtown Manhattan
site is both a lucrative piece of real
estate with grand plans for sky-
scrapers and museums, and the place
where the nations worst terror attack
must be remembered has driven a
rebuilding process fraught with deli-
cate negotiations and often compet-
ing passions of politicians, develop-
ers, architects and family members.
Its the most emotionally charged
building project in the world, said
Robert Yaro, head of the Regional
Plan Association advocacy group in
New York.
Common ground at ground zero
has been hard to find: Ambitious,
thoughtful plans for everything from
a 1,776-foot tower to a performing
arts complex are on paper, but con-
struction on most buildings has yet
to begin.
Monday, a day after a ceremony
marking the fourth anniversary of the
attacks, work will start on one major
project: a $2.2 billion transit hub that
replaces a temporary station that
opened in 2003.
Leaders of the process say that a
remarkable amount has been ac-
complished and that rebuilding a site
like this is unprecedented.
The public has to understand
its not just build some buildings,
said Daniel Libeskind, the architect
who created a master plan for the en-
tire site. I dont think there has ever
been such a project with such ur-
gency and such speed, given the com-
plexity.
Others say the plans are unfo-
cused and prioritize rebuilding office
space with a tallest-in-the-world sky-
scraper over a memorial and more
pressing community needs.
Theres no demand whatsoever
for commercial space in the area,
said Fred Siegel, a history professor
at the Cooper Union for the Ad-
vancement of Science and Art, who
said rebuilders have blown an op-
portunity to rethink lower Manhat-
tan in toto.
Bill Doyle, whose son, Joseph,
died at the World Trade Center, said:
The memorial itself has been an af-
terthought.Its astounding to me that
the only thing they have up there af-
ter four years are a couple of posters.
The Freedom Tower has suffered
more setbacks and missed deadlines
than other plans for the space, which
include four more office towers, a
memorial surrounded by a grove of
oak trees, a performing arts center,
and museums devoted to Sept. 11 and
to freedom.
The cultural and memorial space
have provoked the most vehement,
emotional responses of some victims
relatives.
Leaders of several family groups
recently started a Take Back the
Memorial campaign, saying that in-
cluding any museums other than one
memorializing Sept. 11 is inappro-
priate on the site and overshadows
the memorial. Some take offense at
a design that places the memorial mu-
seum below ground.
Libeskind, whose master plan
made room for culture at the site, has
said he wanted to celebrate life while
commemorating loss which has be-
come one of ground zeros greatest
challenges.
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STRATEGY
More than 5,000 Iraqi army and paramilitary
troops backed by U.S. soldiers swept into Tal Afar,
an insurgent stronghold near the Syrian border.
Nearly 150 insurgents were killed.
VIOLENCE
Insurgents launched a surprise attack on
Baghdads heavily guarded Interior Ministry
building, killing two police officers.
CIVILIAN LOSSES
Fifteen bullet-ridden bodies were found near
Mahmoudiya, a Sunni farming town.
NOTABLE
Coalition forces rescued U.S. hostage Roy
Hallums from a farmhouse south of Baghdad.
Hallums, 57, had been held since Nov. 1, 2004.
The U.S. will halt construction work on some water
and power plants in Iraq because it is running out
of money for the projects.
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said his
prewar speech to the United Nations accusing Iraq
of harboring weapons of mass destruction was a
blot on his record.
A plane carrying some 100 Louisiana National
Guardsmen left Camp Victory, a base in the Kuwaiti
desert headed home to Gulf Coast devastation.
Saddam Husseins lawyer denied the former
president has confessed to ordering the deaths of
more than 180,000 Kurds in the late 1980s.
U.S. CASUALTIES
Six Americans have died since last Sunday,
bringing the total to at least 1,896 in the war.
S.C. ties: 33 members of the military with S.C. ties
have died in the war.
SOURCE: Wire Reports
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Remembering,
moving forward
Once-safe
truck duty
now risky
Rebuilding is
a delicate balance
FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11 ATTACKS
PHOTOGRAPHS BY TINA FINEBERG/ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
By RICHARD CHIN
Knight Ridder Newspapers
FORWARD OPERATING BASE SPEICHER, Iraq
Heres what happens when a nice girl from Minnesota
gets a .50-caliber machine gun and goes to war.
I was not an aggressive person. I was the most
passive person: Its OK, you go first, said Michelle
Maxwell, who works in a nursing home in Austin,
Minn.
Then eight months ago, the 21-year-old Army Na-
tional Guard specialist was sent to Iraq, taught to op-
erate the heavy machine gun turret of a Humvee and
told to shoot or run over anybody who threatened the
truck convoys she was assigned to protect.
I said, Theres just no way. I put old people to
bed. Theres no way I could run over a kid, Maxwell
said.
That was before she saw fellow soldiers in her
transportation unit getting blown up on the roads of
northern Iraq. Now she talks about the rush of con-
fronting insurgent attacks, forcing civilian traffic out
of the way and stitching the pavement with her ma-
chine gun if another vehicle gets too close.
You get here, and you see whats going on. You
see IED (improvised explosive device) holes, people
sent to (the hospital in) Germany. Youve got to clear
the way. You have to. You just have to, she said.
In Bravo Company, 50th Main Support Battalion,
Maxwell finds herself in a conflict with no front line,
where the enemys weapon of choice is the impro-
vised roadside bomb. The once-safe rear echelon job
in a truck company is now one of the most danger-
ous, and female soldiers see as much combat as in-
fantrymen.
Newly armored vehicles are saving lives, but the
soldiers still face danger from a determined enemy
using deadlier bombs that engulf their big, slow-mov-
ing trucks in flames.
Bravo Company describes itself as the wheels of
the 42nd Infantry Division, its truck convoys moving
food and prisoners, even tanks, to about two dozen
forward operating bases throughout northern Iraq.
The company has about 250 soldiers, mostly from
the Minnesota National Guard. About one-fifth are
women. The dozens of trucks that make up a convoy
are inviting targets to insurgents.
It is what a lot of people say is the most danger-
ous job in the division, said Maj. Jeff Howe, the com-
pany commander. The infantry division, they are the
ones doing the hunting. We kind of feel we are the
hunted.
ABOVE
Visitors to the World Trade Center site in New York
read about the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on
panels posted along a fence.
AT LEFT
Craig Esposito of Bellmore, N.Y., is comforted by his
girlfriend, Heather Broome, at the site. Espositos
father, William, whose likeness is tattooed on Craig
Espositos shoulder, was killed in the attack.
THE U.S. AND IRAQ
GUT CHECK
Recent polls have found:
50 percent think the threat from
terrorism is about the same since
the Sept. 11 attacks
30 percent say its greater
60 percent have confidence in
the governments ability to
protect U.S. citizens
40 percent say their life
changed after 9/11 and they do
not expect it will return to
normal
SOURCES: CBS News poll; CNN-USAToday-Gallup
RICHARD CHIN/ KNIGHT RIDDER TRIBUNE
Spc. Jessica Klein drives a military vehicle
on a convoy route that has seen a lot of
roadside bombs.
TINA FINEBERG/ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
In this computer-generated rendering released in June, the
Freedom Tower rises above lower Manhattans skyline.
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An in-depth look at the men
and philosophy behind
South Carolinas proposal to
reform the health care sys-
tem that provides medical
care to almost 1 million Pal-
metto State residents.
Impact
U.N. summit: The 2005
World Summit, this week
at U.N. headquarters in
New York, will bring
together more than 170
heads of state and
government the
largest gathering of
world leaders in history.
Supreme Court vacancy:
The Senate Judiciary
Committee on Monday
opens confirmation
hearings for John
Roberts, now President
Bushs nominee for chief
justice.
After the storm: The
Bush administration
took a beating on the
federal response to
Hurricane Katrina.
Meanwhile, evacuees
began arriving in the
Midlands.
A farewell: Chief
Justice William
Rehnquist, stricken by
cancer but resilient till
the end, was buried
Wednesday in
Arlington National
Cemetery.
Like a lake, with houses stuck in it
Rebels dig in to thwart election
KATRINAS WAKE
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Lee Ellis, a Charleston, S.C., DHEC officer canvasses a northside New Orleans neighborhood Wednesday after shots were fired during a search and rescue
mission. Armed officers patrolled neighborhoods looking for residents to evacuate from the city.
THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN
The day before State photographer Jill Richards
went through New Orleans with S.C. DNR
officers, she saw the city from the air. It looked
like a lake, with houses stuck in it. . . . There
was an overall stench, a rotting smell, said
Richards, one of three State staffers who spent
last week reporting from Mississippi and
Louisiana. There is absolutely no noise. . . . All
you hear is helicopters and searchers screaming
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INSIDE
Eight service
members with
S.C. ties have
died in the
Afghanistan
fighting since
2002.
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By JONATHAN S. LANDAY
Knight Ridder Newspapers
LANDING ZONE NORTH
DAKOTA, Afghanistan The
Bush administration declared
more than two years ago that ma-
jor combat in Afghanistan was
over. Tell that to the 60 young
men of Battle Company.
For the past few months, the
U.S. paratroopers and other
American units have been fight-
ing a war thousands of feet up in
the sun-blasted peaks and boul-
der-strewn defiles of one of his-
torys most grueling battlefields.
They are facing guerrillas who
were born here, hardened by
poverty and backwardness, and
steeped in a centuries-old tradi-
tion of resisting foreigners. The
guerrillas aim is to impose an-
other hard-line Islamic regime on
Afghanistan, one that might make
the country once again a sanctu-
ary for Osama bin Laden and his
al Qaeda extremists.
The Taliban have killed more
than 40 U.S. soldiers and more
than 800 Afghan officials, police,
troops, aid workers and civilians
since March in a campaign aimed
Guerrillas intensify
attacks in attempt
to derail Sept. 18
referendum
By JONATHAN S. LANDAY
Knight Ridder Newspapers
KABUL, Afghanistan Nearly four years
after a U.S.-led military intervention top-
pled them from power, the Taliban have
re-emerged as a potent threat to stability
in Afghanistan.
Though its a far cry from the mass
movement that overran most of the coun-
try in the 1990s, todays Taliban are fight-
ing a guerrilla war with new weapons, in-
cluding portable anti-aircraft missiles, and
equipment bought with cash sent through
Osama bin Ladens al Qaeda network, ac-
cording to Afghan and Western officials.
While it was in power, the Taliban provided
safe haven to bin Laden and al Qaeda.
The money is coming from rogue el-
ements and factional elements living in the
Middle East, Afghan Defense Minister
Taliban threaten
Afghanistans stability
with surge of violence
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THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN
Abdul Rahim Wardak asserted in
an interview with Knight Ridder.
Al Qaeda is channeling money
and equipment, said Lt. George
Hughbanks, a U.S. Army intelli-
gence officer in Zabul province,
one of the worst hit by the Taliban
insurgency.
The Taliban is now a disparate
assemblage of radical groups esti-
mated to number several thousand,
far fewer than when it was in
power before November 2001. The
fighters operate in small cells that
occasionally come together for spe-
cific missions. They are unable to
hold territory or defeat coalition
troops.
They are linked by a loose com-
mand structure and an aim of dri-
ving out U.S.-led coalition and
NATO troops, toppling U.S.-backed
President Hamid Karzai and reim-
posing hard-line Islamic rule on
Afghanistan, according to Afghan
and Western officials and experts.
The Taliban insurgents have
adopted some of the terrorist tac-
tics that their Iraqi counterparts
have used to stoke popular anger
at the Iraqi government and the
U.S. military. They have stalled re-
construction and fomented sectar-
ian tensions in a country that re-
mains mired in poverty and
corruption, illegal drugs and eth-
nic and political hatred.
Their tactics include attacks
with homemade explosives, be-
headings, assassinations and kid-
nappings targeting public officials
and others who cooperate in inter-
national democracy-building efforts
and reconstruction.
At least 44 U.S. soldiers have
died in hostile actions in the past
six months.
The new American ambassador
to Afghanistan, Ronald E. Neu-
mann, said the Taliban had ab-
solutely no chance of derailing
next Sundays parliamentary and
provincial council polls because se-
curity would be too tight.
The Talibans new tactics, how-
ever, suggest to some experts that
the surge in violence that began six
months ago is more than an effort
to impede the elections. These ex-
perts fear that the Talibans resur-
gence might be part of an al Qaeda
strategy aimed at keeping the U.S.
military stressed and bleeding not
only in Iraq, but also in
Afghanistan.
I think they are opening a sec-
ond front, said Marvin Weinbaum,
a former State Department intelli-
gence analyst who is now at the
Middle East Institute in Washing-
ton. I dont think the elections are
really the focus. These are people
who see this in broader terms.
A Western diplomat in Kabul
agreed, saying Taliban propaganda
links the insurgencies in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
They themselves will often
make the linkage between
Afghanistan and Iraq and, in a
sense, putting it out there in terms
of a whole, he said on condition
of anonymity.
U.S. officials in Washington said
they had no proof of such an al
Qaeda-coordinated strategy. But an
American defense official said he
couldnt exclude it, and that he and
other U.S. officials were concerned
about the lessons the Taliban was
drawing from Iraq.
It would be extremely naive of
us not to believe that the enemy is
a thinking, learning, adapting en-
emy, said the American defense
official, who requested anonymity.
There is certainly learning that is
going on, and we have to remind
ourselves of not falling into the trap
of not understanding it.
He added, Its potentially much
larger than Iraq and Afghanistan.
at derailing next Sundays parlia-
mentary and provincial elections
and eroding confidence in Presi-
dent Hamid Karzai and his Amer-
ican-led backers.
Borrowing tactics from their
counterparts in Iraq, they have be-
headed alleged informers and
staged two suicide bombings, a
form of terrorism rarely seen in
Afghanistan.
The fighters of the resurgent
Taliban movement are no match
in face-to-face clashes for highly
trained U.S. troops, who are
equipped to fight at night and are
backed by helicopter gunships,
jets, unmanned spy planes, Afghan
soldiers and local intelligence offi-
cers.
But after suffering massive ca-
sualties in a series of major fire-
fights, the Taliban have learned to
avoid set-piece battles with the U.S.
and Afghan troops who are trying
to pen them up in the mountains
so they cant sabotage the upcom-
ing vote.
The war has evolved into a
bloody game of cat and mouse, a
classic guerrilla struggle with
echoes of the much larger and far
bloodier conflicts in Iraq, Chech-
nya and Vietnam.
The outcome may well come
down to which side can outlast the
other.
ALWAYS MOVING
The Taliban operate in small
bands, staging hit-and-run attacks,
assassinations and ambushes, lay-
ing mines and firing missiles and
rocket-propelled grenades before
melting back into local popula-
tions. U.S. intelligence reports in-
dicate that Taliban leaders con-
stantly change locations.
One day, they could be firing
at you and serving you chai (tea)
the next, Army Capt. Michael
Kloepper of Caldwell, N.J., said af-
ter a helicopter dropped him and
some of his men on a boulder-
strewn hilltop dubbed Landing
Zone North Dakota on a two-day
mission in a remote valley in south-
ern Zabul province.
Kloepper commands Battle
Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd In-
fantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade.
Based in Vincenza, Italy, Battle
Company belongs to a task force
of some 900 U.S. troops and 800
soldiers of the newly minted
Afghan army operating in Zabul
province, one of the worst affected
by the insurgency. An area the size
of Massachusetts, Connecticut and
Rhode Island combined, Zabul re-
sembles the blighted moonscape
and canine-sharp peaks of Mordor
in J.R.R. Tolkiens Lord of the
Rings.
A Knight Ridder correspondent
and a Fort Worth Star-Telegram
photographer spent five days with
Battle Company and several other
U.S. units at the leading edge of
the Bush administrations effort to
stabilize a country ravaged by
decades of civil war and over-
whelmed by destitution, corrup-
tion, overpopulation, disease and
despair.
The guerrillas stash their arms
in the wheat stacks, wells, thick
groves and the off-limits womens
quarters of adobe compounds.
Their hiding places are scattered
in the small oases of almond and
apple trees in valleys wedged be-
tween mountains that seem to roll
ever onward like immense, dun-
colored tidal waves.
Hiding in mountaintop caves
and crevices, the Taliban track U.S.
troops and aircraft sometimes
for many miles and pass intel-
ligence to each other in coded lan-
guage via walkie-talkies that are
extremely difficult to get a fix on.
A lot of times, its like chasing
ghosts, said Kloeppers radio op-
erator, Spc. Mark Cushman of
Norman, Okla., during a patrol in
the district of Deh Chopan, a Tal-
iban stronghold.
Some locals are forced to feed
and shelter the guerrillas. Others
collaborate because they share the
Talibans harsh interpretation of
Islam or are linked to fighters
through tribe and family ties.
The Taliban also might be prof-
iting from outrage at U.S. troops
who inadvertently violate cultural
taboos while searching compounds
and from rising anger over the
slow pace of U.S.-led reconstruc-
tion programs that seem focused
mostly on urban centers.
TWO COUNTRIES
Nearly four years after the U.S.-
led intervention that drove the Tal-
iban from power and made bin
Laden the worlds most hunted
man, Afghanistan has effectively
become two countries.
In 24 provinces in the north,
west and center, home to the main
ethnic minorities, little major vio-
lence has been reported. NATO-
protected international recon-
struction efforts are moving ahead,
and theres optimism that the elec-
tions, a key point in Washingtons
efforts to push the country toward
democracy and allow a withdrawal
of U.S. forces, wont be disrupted.
But in Zabul and nine other
southern and eastern provinces
bordering Pakistan, the upsurge in
Taliban violence has stalled inter-
national aid efforts and might im-
pede the elections, which would be
a serious blow to Karzai and the
United States.
The north and south are the
heartland of the Pashtuns, the eth-
nic majority from which the Tal-
iban come. Pashtuns also dominate
the lawless tribal belt on Pakistans
side of the border. Its there that
the Taliban, allies of Pakistans Is-
lamist political parties and former
clients of its military intelligence
service, are said to maintain
havens, supply depots and train-
ing camps. Islamabad denies the
allegation.
The commanders of the 18,000
U.S. troops in Afghanistan have re-
sponded with a hard-hitting coun-
terinsurgency campaign. They also
have been reaching out to tribal el-
ders and their people with hu-
manitarian and medical assistance
and pledges of better security to
encourage them to turn in guerril-
las and vote in the elections.
More than 400 guerrillas re-
portedly have been killed or cap-
tured. Still, U.S. commanders ex-
pect the bloodshed to escalate
through election day. Then comes
winter, when snow blocks the
mountain passes, and the Taliban,
most of whose top leaders never
were captured, can rest, regroup,
rearm and recruit new fighters.
TALIBAN FROMPAGE D1
Al Qaeda funneling money to radical groups in Afghanistan
REBELS FROMPAGE D1
Rebels turn to terrorism common in Iraq
Kabul Police Academy cadets attend classes in August. Many areas of Afghanistan face an
uncertain security situation as the Taliban remain a serious threat to stability and
reconstruction. The cadets will be spread across the country when they graduate to assist in
improving security.
AT A GLANCE
The Taliban
The group emerged from
Afghanistans southeastern
Pashtun heartland, bordering
Pakistan, as a ragtag Islamic
militia in 1994. With support
from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia,
it became a mass movement of
Islamic zealots who took on the
feuding anti-Soviet mujahedeen
groups that were running the
government.
The militants overran most
of the country by 1998, at first
welcomed for imposing order af-
ter years of chaos and blood-
shed. But they became despised
for their stern brand of Islam,
which banned music and danc-
ing, required men to grow
untrimmed beards and prohib-
ited women from working. They
hosted Osama bin Laden until
they were driven from power by
a U.S.-led coalition in November
2001.
Since then, the Taliban lead-
ers have been fugitives with
prices on their heads and remain
hated in much of Afghanistan.
SOURCE: Knight Ridder Newspapers
PHOTOGRAPHS BY TOM PENNINGTON/ KNIGHT RIDDER TRIBUNE
An Afghan National Army soldier gives out candy to children in August while searching for Taliban fighters with U.S. soldiers.
U.S. Army Sgt. Patrick
Hoffman keeps watch after
sleeping in a cornfield in
Afghanistan.
2002
Jan. 9 Marine Capt. Daniel Mc-
Collum, 29, of Irmo; killed when
his refueling plane crashed in Pak-
istan while supporting the war
2003
March 23 Air Force Staff
Sgt. Jason Hicks, 25, of Jeffer-
son; killed in a helicopter crash
near Ghanzi, Afghanistan
2004
Sept. 20 Army Staff Sgt.
Tony B. Olaes, 30, of
Walhalla; killed in hostile action
near Shkin, in southeastern
Afghanistan
2005
April 6 S.C. National Guard
Sgt. Stephen High, 45, of Spar-
tanburg; killed in a helicopter
crash in bad weather near
Ghanzi, Afghanistan.
April 6 Army Maj. Edward
Murphy, 36, of Mount Pleasant;
died in the same helicopter crash
April 6 S.C. National Guard
Spc. Chrystal Stout, 23, of Trav-
elers Rest; also killed in same
helicopter crash
Aug. 11 Army Reserve Sgt.
Edward R. Heselton, 23, of
Easley; died in Orgun-E,
Afghanistan, when ordnance ex-
ploded near the vehicle he was
driving.
Aug. 21 Army Sgt. Michael
R. Lehmiller, 23, of Anderson;
killed when a bomb exploded
near his Humvee during patrol
operations, near Baylough,
Afghanistan
S.C. DEAD IN AFGHANISTAN
Eight service members with S.C. ties have died in the Afghanistan
war. Three were killed in a single helicopter crash earlier this
year, the deadliest year of the war for South Carolinians. (In con-
trast, 33 service members with S.C. ties have died in the Iraq war.)
GASOLINE PRICES
Prices in South Carolina jumped by
more than 50 cents a gallon, passing $3
per gallon in many places and setting
records here and nationwide.
RETAIL
Except for areas directly hit by Katrina,
retailers are holding to their
third-quarter forecasts.
AIR TRAVEL
Most airlines are trying to reroute cus-
tomers around New Orleans and Gulf-
port, Miss. Fuel prices have put more
pressure on carriers such as Delta.
STOCKS
Today the S&P 500 has returned to pre-
9/11 level but has not revisited its levels
of 1,600 during the days of high-flying
tech stocks. The index hardly budged be-
cause of Katrina.
JOB LOSSES
Katrina is estimated to have wiped-
away, at least temporarily, up to half a
million jobs in New Orleans and else-
where on the Gulf Coast.
GASOLINE PRICES
Prices barely budged. Heading into the
busy Thanksgiving travel weekend,
prices hit a two-year low of $1.18 per
gallon in South Carolina.
RETAIL
Retailers suffered their slowest holiday
shopping season in a decade. Some re-
tailers laid off workers in early 2002.
AIR TRAVEL
Air travel was halted for two days. Air-
lines lost $5 billion between Sept. 11 and
Sept. 30, and the losses helped push US
Airways and United into bankruptcy.
STOCKS
After trading resumed, the S&P 500 in-
dex quickly fell to below 1,000 from near
1,200. That index continued slipping for
several months, bottoming out below
800 a year later.
JOB LOSSES
Federal economists said nearly 150,000
jobs were lost at least temporarily
in New York as businesses closed and
tourism fell.
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By JAMES D. McWILLIAMS
Staff Writer
Wait tables for a year, and your boss
might send you on a beach vacation.
Or work in the kitchen, and the restau-
rant owner might offer your dog medical
benefits.
Those are just two examples of how
restaurants in Columbia and the nation
are coping with their No. 1 concern: re-
cruiting and keeping workers.
Nationally, the restaurant industry
known for its high turnover rate is in a
bind. The industry is expanding faster
than the number of workers available, and
people look for more high-paying jobs as
the economy heats up.
The issue of hiring and retention has
replaced food prices as the top worry for
restaurateurs, said Hudson Riehle, senior
researcher at the National Restaurant As-
sociation.
In response, many local and national
restaurants are offering new incentives
such as insurance, raises, and trips to
deal with competition for workers.
Sticky Fingers, which has 15 locations
in the Carolinas, Florida and Tennessee,
has hired a full-time rewards director in
charge of doling out personalized perks
to hard workers.
It only takes one good employee to
tell you they dont feel appreciated before
you realize its well worth just hiring some-
one to help us be more consistent (re-
warding excellence), said company
owner Jeff Goldstein. Among the perks:
Greenville workers who had been with
Sticky Fingers a year were sent on three-
day vacations to the beach in Charleston
or a ski resort in North Carolina
Workers at a Columbia restaurant went
to the Carowinds amusement park last au-
tumn
Charleston workers were sent on a din-
ner-boat cruise
Meanwhile, Darden Restaurants,
owner of Red Lobster, Olive Garden and
two other chains, has its perks.
The company offers medical benefits
to both full-timers and part-timers, and
even offers optional veterinarian benefits
to workers pets, said Joe
Chabus,spokesman for the Florida-based
Restaurants cater to workers
GERRY MELENDEZ/THE STATE
Amber Derlon, 24, right, a waitress at Sticky Fingers, laughs with customers Alisha Hansen, left, and Sonya Hancock, as she prepares to take
their order. The S.C. chain has a rewards director to take care of employees who stay on the job and work hard.
FAST-FOOD RESTAURANTS
HOURLY WORKERS: 130.2 percent
MANAGERS: 49.1 percent
OTHER RESTAURANTS
HOURLY WORKERS: 100.1 percent
MANAGERS: 26.3 percent
IMPACT
WORKERS: Restaurants are the nations
largest private employer, with 12.2 million
workers nationally and 181,300 S.C. workers.
RESTAURANT REVENUE IN 2004:
$453 billion nationwide, and $4.9 billion
statewide.
SOURCES: People Report, a company that tracks work force trends for 90
major restaurant chains; National Restaurant Association, which has
60,000 member companies
ORDER UP
As more restaurants open and more people eat out, the number of
waiters and waitresses continues to rise in Columbia and statewide.
NOTE: Pay is median per hour, meaning half of the workers earn more and half earn less.
SOURCE: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Facing high turnover
rates, restaurateurs
cook up incentives
to build employee loyalty
SOUTH CAROLINA COLUMBIA
YEAR NUMBER PAY* NUMBER PAY*
2004 37,500 $6.27 5,650 $6.12
2003 34,250 $6.35 4,970 $6.44
2002 32,960 $6.51 4,250 $6.54
2001 28,780 $6.40 3,260 $6.45
2000 30,850 $6.36 4,260 $6.38
SEE BENEFITS PAGE F3
Katrinas long-term impact depends on consumers
KATRINA, 9/11 BOTH COSTLY
The date 9/11, like the name Katrina, will forever convey memories of human and economic toll.
Calculating the cost of Katrina and 9/11 in lives and dollars is difficult, because in their own way each is still ongoing.
This comparison is not intended to gauge which event is worse both wrought devastation beyond belief but to highlight some of the costs associated with each.
RESTAURANT TURNOVER
Most workers at major restaurant chains do not stay long on the job. Here are turnover
rates for the 12-month period ending in spring 2005:
- BEN WERNER
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Superdome is surrounded by
floodwaters. Katrina affected a
large part of the nations petroleum
infrastructure, helping to boost
already-rising gasoline prices.
FILE PHOTOGRAPH/KNIGHT RIDDER
Some economists expect spending
to bounce back after Katrina as it
did after the Sept. 11 attacks.
9/11 HURRICANE KATRINA
By MARGARET W. PRESSLER
and PAUL BLUSTEIN
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON The long-term eco-
nomic impact of Hurricane Katrina will
hinge in large part on how U.S. con-
sumers react to the disaster and result-
ing surge in gas prices. Will they fall into
the camp represented by Lisa Kays, of
Washington, or Heather Rories, of Burke,
Va.?
Kays, who works in international de-
velopment, said the hurricane led to big
changes in her spending plans.
It reinforced to me the need to save,
to have cash, Kays said. Weve been
thinking about buying a car, but after this,
Im like, No, its not worth it.
But a little farther down Connecticut
Avenue, law librarian Rories said rising
gas prices have had no impact on her
spending or travel plans. She and her
family drove to Charlotte over the holi-
day weekend, she said, and every time
we stopped, the gas prices had gone up.
I just felt fortunate we could afford
it, Rories said.
Consumer spending on food, clothing,
services and big-ticket items accounts for
about 70 percent of U.S. economic out-
put. So much is riding on the extent to
which Americans change their spending
in response to high gas prices.
The surge in gasoline prices in the
week ending on Labor Day was virtually
unprecedented the retail price rose
Higher energy prices
could force people to cut
back on spending
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WITNESS AGAINST INJUSTICE
Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel offers timeless message | PAGE D1
Grants boost S.C. readiness
Vivid scenes
haunt many
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Celebrating the heroes of
9/11: A photo page | A13
Readers share their
remembrances | A14
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State spending by category
County-level breakdown of
how dollars were allocated
Honoring South Carolinas
war dead
S.C.s 9/11 eyewitnesses in
their own words
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South Carolina A to Z and mountains to sea
NOWHERE
TO RUN
By CLAUDIA SMITH BRINSON
cbrinson@thestate.com
Eight years, plus a million words or
so, plus a million dollars or more and the
South Carolina Encyclopedia is all yours.
On Sept. 29, the most comprehensive
effort ever to detail South Carolinas past
hits the stands. This small state possesses
a long and complicated history we long
to understand; about 2,000 clear, bite-
size entries in the new encyclopedia of-
fer that possibility. How is such a thing
built, something so important, so com-
plicated so massive?
Just add water, says Tom Downey,
managing editor from 2000 to 2004.
And add historian Walter Edgar, the
Humanities Council South Carolina, the
University of South Carolina Press,
fundraisers and donors, academics, lo-
cal historians, subject editors and writ-
ers, graduate students, photographs, il-
lustrations, maps and, of course, sev-
eral hundred years of the past.
Ask about 600 people to sum
it up in about 2,000 entries
on 1,120 pages for
next to nothing on a
deadline.
No problem.
SOUTH CAROLINA
Analyst Vicki Gibson takes a call in SLEDs
Fusion Center, an electronic hub that tracks
crime data around the state.
RICHLAND COUNTY
The county Special Response Team uses a new
bomb robot to investigate a suspicious device
of pipes and wires that were bound together.
LEXINGTON COUNTY
Duane E. Stevens is fitted with the countys new
Explosive Ordinance Device suit, or bomb suit,
as he trains with the explosive response unit.
KERSHAW COUNTY
Gene Faulkenberry, the countys emergency
management director, uses a new computer to
track Tropical Storm Ernesto.
By JOHN OCONNOR
johnoconnor@thestate.com
M
ore than $300 million has
poured into South Carolina
since the Sept. 11, 2001,
terrorist attacks to better prepare
the state, counties and towns for
terror-related events and natural
disasters.
The money, from a variety of
federal sources, already has paid
dividends, officials say. Grant dol-
lars, for example, paid for light-
weight protective masks and suits
that likely saved lives during a
2005 train crash and chemical spill
in Graniteville.
The single biggest expenditure
has gone to improve radio com-
munications between police and
fire departments, and build digital
watchdog centers to track and an-
alyze crime data at the Port of
Charleston and around the state.
The dollars have been critical
to equipping staff and raising
everyday levels of service, too, of-
ficials said.
Were safer than before, said
Chief Robert Stewart, head of the
State Law Enforcement Division,
which oversees federal Depart-
ment of Homeland Security grants.
I wont tell you were prepared for
everything. Nobody is.
Still, there are gaps is state cov-
erage, Stewart said, especially in
some rural areas.
By LINDA H. LAMB
llamb@thestate.com
Most of us were watching tele-
vision as we saw the World Trade
Center towers collapse.
Bob Schlette Jr. saw them
through his office window and
when they fell, he lost three close
friends and hundreds of acquain-
tances. The experience of Sept. 11,
2001, was different for South Car-
olinians close to the disaster sites
in New York City or at the Penta-
gon. Theres more to remember
and much more to recover from.
For New York native Schlette,
59, whose work took him to the
twin towers almost every day, there
always will be a hole in the skyline.
It really feels like somethings
missing, he said. Even when I
see the TV shows where they pan
the skyline, and (the towers)
arent there.
Schlette said the tragedy didnt
really change him but it did
change his location. It was a big
reason he and his wife, who had
vacationed in Myrtle Beach for
years, decided to move to Lexing-
ton a little more than a year ago.
He works as a surveyor for B.P.
Barber & Associates.
THE WORST AND BEST
OF HUMAN NATURE
Some people didnt want to stay
in New York City after the terror-
ist attacks of 9/11. Carrie Rachel
Dean didnt want to leave.
Dean, a Columbia High School
graduate, lived 20 blocks from the
World Trade Center.
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HEROES
FIVE YEARS LATER SEPT. 11, 2001
I
f the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001,
struck us with fear and the deaths of
more than 2,700 overtook us with
sadness, then the heroic work of the first-
responders and volunteers who rushed to
ground zero filled us with pride.
Many of them died trying to save just
one more life. For those who survived,
life still hasnt returned to normal.
We knew it even then.
I can see pain in their eyes, the Rev.
Gary Benvenuti said Sept. 12, 2001. He
drove from Augusta to New York to
council firefighters. God didnt condition
us for this type of pain and sorrow.
FI LE PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE ASSOCI ATED PRESS AND MCCLATCHY-TRI BUNE
Firefighters raise a flag late in the afternoon on Sept. 11, 2001, in
the wreckage of the World Trade Center towers.
A smoke
cloud rises
after United
Flight 93
crashed in a
field in
Shanksville,
Pa., on
Sept. 11,
2001.
Rescue workers climb a mountain of debris Sept. 13, 2001. The rubble was all that remained of the twin towers.
Messages scrawled in debris dust on
Sept. 12, 2001, on a ladder truck of
Ladder Company 24 join a growing
memorial to the firefighters from the
company who lost their lives in the
terrorist attacks.
Firefighters unfurl an American flag from the roof of
the Pentagon on Sept. 12, 2001, as President Bush
visited the area damaged by the terrorist attack.
An
emergency
worker
helps a
woman
after she
was
injured
in the
terrorist
attack on
the towers.
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She coped with the stress by
throwing herself into volunteer
work, staffing a Red Cross respite
center a block north of ground
zero.
As difficult as it was, I will al-
ways feel incredibly blessed and
lucky that I was in New York City
at that time, said Dean, 34. We
saw the worst that human nature
has to offer. Immediately follow-
ing, we saw the best human na-
ture has to offer.
Early on, she was haunted by
thoughts of survivors who might
be trapped in the smoky ruins of
the skyscrapers.
Every time I closed my eyes,
I would imagine what that would
have been like, she said.
When her companys post-9/11
revenue losses put her out of a job
three months later, Dean volun-
teered full time. Later she served
as a paid consultant to some of the
victims families. Eventually, she
started her own consulting com-
pany, and now she is doing well.
Emotionally, Dean said, she
breathed a little easier after the
one-year anniversary of the at-
tacks. Nevertheless, she feels its
too soon for movies such as
World Trade Center. For her,
ever-mindful of those who suf-
fered agonizing loss, it always will
be too soon.
I cant imagine sitting in a
movie theater, eating popcorn and
watching that, she said.
CAMARADERIE . . .
GOT ME THROUGH
The gawkers at ground zero
tourists taking pictures of the
smoldering devastation that had
been the World Trade Center
were an irritating sight to New
Yorkers such as Eva van Dok.
But then, in the harrowing
weeks and months after the ter-
rorist attacks, layers of stress and
worry seemed to worsen every
problem, said van Dok, a 35-year-
old actress from Greenville who
has lived in New York since 1994.
Whatever you were going
through at the time got magnified
by 50, she said.
Already anxious by nature, van
Dok had been laid off from her
magazine job. While the disaster
put things in perspective I was
looking for work at the same time
other people were fighting for
their lives now she was jobless
and afraid.
Camaraderie with my friends
. . . got me through, said van Dok,
who separated from her husband
three months after 9/11.
Five years have calmed her
anxieties somewhat and brought
positive changes. Van Dok is act-
ing in an off-Broadway play and
has a new magazine-research job.
She has remarried, to her high
school sweetheart. But shes dis-
mayed by what she sees as politi-
cizing of the disasters.
Were more divided than ever,
and the violence seems to be in-
creasing, van Dok said.
She views statements such as
the terrorists hate our freedom
as simplistic. She worries that mil-
itary actions since 9/11 may con-
tinue the cycle of hatred.
While she stressed that shes
no al-Qaida sympathizer, she
added, It is my somewhat ideal-
istic hope that the terrorists them-
selves should be punished without
waging war on their entire race.
THE HAIR STOOD UP
ON MY NECK
George L. Johnson was more
terrified than hed been before
or ever wants to be again.
Johnson travels to Washington,
D.C., frequently as vice president
of BlueCross BlueShield of South
Carolina. News of the 9/11 attacks
interrupted a meeting he was hav-
ing with then-Rep. Lindsey Gra-
ham.
Evacuation of the Capitol was
amazingly orderly, even polite,
said Johnson, 60, of Columbia.
The scary moment came as he left
his traffic-jammed taxi to walk the
rest of the way to his Pennsylva-
nia Avenue hotel.
A crowd gathered. Everyone
looked at the sky. Their collective
gaze moved from the White
House to the Capitol and back.
They were waiting to see what
would be hit next, Johnson said.
The hair stood up on my neck at
that point and I thought, my God,
this is the United States!
Those moments seemed even
more poignant later as details
emerged about United Flight 193,
which crashed in Pennsylvania
after being diverted from its orig-
inal goal of crashing into the White
House or the Capitol.
That first night, it was hard to
sleep with the sound of F-16s
buzzing the city.
Johnson remembers sadness
and bewilderment, and being
stuck in Washington for four days
until he found a ride back to Co-
lumbia with the son of a friend of
a friend.
I JUST DIDNT WANT
TO GO HOME
Thousands of photographs and
videos were made on 9/11, but the
photo in Maj. Kent Broomes mind
is one that didnt get taken.
Blythewood native Broome,
now stationed at Shaw Air Force
Base, was working at the Penta-
gon then. His office was almost di-
rectly opposite where the terrorists
crashed a Boeing 737 into the west
side of the massive building.
Evacuated along with thou-
sands of others, Broome felt com-
pelled to return to help. I just did-
nt want to go home, he said.
Getting past security was out
of the question, so he jumped a
fence at Arlington Cemetery and
crept in that way. He recalled
walking through a section of
graves of veterans who served in
Korea or Vietnam, hes not sure
which. But there was the picture:
The stark gravestones of Ameri-
can patriots and beyond them,
smoke rising from the awful
wound in the Pentagon.
That was the image that, if Id
had a camera, I would have got-
ten, said Broome, 37.
At the Pentagon, he helped
however he could, assisting peo-
ple, clearing debris. After a long
day, he began to hitchhike back to
his Virginia home and was picked
up by a stranger who insisted on
driving him the whole 25 miles.
Back in Washington for a train-
ing session last month, Broome
visited the Iwo Jima memorial,
symbol of World War II. A Japan-
ese tourist gave him a light for his
cigar. Broome reflected that it can
take years for a wars meaning to
become clear. Perhaps, he
thought, people dont yet under-
stand the significance of 9/11 and
the current military actions in
Afghanistan and Iraq.
A lot of people are fooled into
thinking its about some great con-
quest and military might, he said.
I think people really miss the con-
text, that what were doing today
is helping to bring freedom to the
world.
AMERICA NEEDS
TO WAKE UP
Army Col. Edwin Morehead
also carries an image in his head
from that day at the Pentagon.
Morehead, 52, of Lexington,
was working at the Pentagon then
and was close to the site of the
crash. Colleagues said they heard
screams of trapped Navy person-
nel. Morehead and others, with
the building burning, literally
falling down around us, took
turns trying to get through a nar-
row space to reach them.
A young sailor in a T-shirt
rolled in water littered with bro-
ken glass, trying to cool off before
plunging back into the space.
In my mind I can still see that
young kid, crawling in that hole,
Morehead said. I dont know if
he ever came out. I never took the
time to track that kid down, but
that was one of many things that
I saw others do that were just un-
believable, in the attempt to save
others.
Morehead, now stationed at the
National Guard headquarters in
Columbia, said the other emotion
that lingers from 9/11 is anger. He
has a 25-year-old son serving in
the Army, but he said too many
people are blind to the threat of
terrorism.
American needs to wake up
and realize it didnt start on Sept.
11 ... and it didnt end on Sept.
11, he said.
What bothers me is how few
Americans are willing to serve
their country.
I WOULD HAVE BEEN
TRAPPED
In his five years of work for the
Port Authority, Schlette cant re-
member another day when the
monthly staff meeting was not
held promptly at 9 a.m., on the
74th floor of the World Trade Cen-
ters North Tower.
But on 9/11, the meeting was
switched to 9:30 a.m., which might
have saved his life.
American Airlines Flight 11
crashed into the North Tower at
8:46 a.m. Schlette was on a train
headed for the meeting, but every-
one on it was told to go back.
If not for that, I probably
would have been trapped in an el-
evator, Schlette said. Back in his
office in Jersey City, he had a
panoramic view of the towers and
the Statue of Liberty beyond.
He remembers the engineers
he worked with were already in
problem-solving mode. They were
thinking and talking about how
the towers could be repaired. No
one imagined the massive build-
ings collapsing though that
soon was the horrible sight
through Schlettes office window.
Five years have not dimmed
his view of the towers collapse.
I can still see them now, he
said.
Reach Lamb at
(803) 771-8454.
SECURITY
FIVE YEARS LATER SEPT. 11, 2001
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I was at Columbia Airport waiting to
board my flight to Jacksonville, Fla., ...
so I could fly to the Mayo Clinic for some
treatments.
The public announcement system
was saying all flights have been
canceled, all planes in the air are
ordered to immediately land at the
closest airport. ... As I walked from my
gate to the ticket counter, I remember
the stream of people behind me, men
cussing, women crying and me vowing
to rejoin the Army even though I was 68
years old.
Owens T. Cobb, Columbia

I was a freshman in college when I

walked into my second class that began
at 9:25 a.m. My professor stood in front
of a filled class and told us that
something had happened to the World
Trade Center, but no one knew exactly
what had happened. She then began
lecturing.
After class, I walked to the nearest
TV and saw what was going on, the first
building falling to the ground. ...
After 9/11, I gained more love for my
country than I ever thought possible. I
was 18 and had never experienced
something like this before.
Ashley Northington, Columbia

It was 11 days after my retirement

from federal service. We had contractors
working on the house and one of them
shouted upstairs that a plane had hit the
World Trade Center. Like many, we
assumed this an accident and, not
knowing the size of the plane, hoped the
damage was relatively minor.
We turned on the television only to
see a plane hit the second tower. Clearly
this was an act of terrorism. Our
daughter was on the telephone with her
home office, located in the towers, and
heard the last words, no, screams before
the line went dead. She lost 12 friends
and co-workers.
Janet Miller, Lexington

Sept. 11, 2001, did not start out as an
ordinary day for me, even before the attack
on the World Trade Center.
My husband and I left our home at
6:30 that morning en route for Lexington
Medical Center, where I was going to have
our second child.
We watched the whole thing unfold as
I was in labor. I remember feeling very
vulnerable being in the hospital about to
give birth and not knowing what was
going to happen next.
I was very fortunate to have a fast and
easy delivery. Savannah Grace was born at
12:23 p.m. that day, weighing 8 pounds 8
ounces. It is hard to believe that she will be
5 years old. She knows when her birthday
is but has no idea what significance it has
to the rest of the world.
Michelle Murray, Lexington

I was going to a monthly staff
meeting in the North Tower, 74th floor.
The meeting had been moved from its
normal 9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
I heard the conductor get a message to
hold the train there because of a smoke
problem. . . . After a little wait, we were
instructed to exit the train.
As I was exiting the train, I heard a
young woman say: Before we went into
the tunnel, did you see the smoke coming
out of the top of one of the towers?
After hearing that, I took the train back
to my office. . . . From my desk, I had a
perfect view of both towers and watched
them both go down. . . . Luckily, I only lost
three friends.
I consider myself lucky. If the staff
meeting had not been moved to 9:30 a.m.,
I probably would have been trapped in an
elevator when the first plane hit. I did
have a good friend who was trapped in an
elevator and escaped. One of my friends
was a PA cop who went over immediately
to help and never returned.
Bob Schlette Jr.,
Lexington
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Savannah Grace Murray, left, with her sister Shannon Murray, 7,
was born on Sept. 11, 2001.
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New York native Bob Schlette, a survey supervisor for B.P. Barber & Associates in
Columbia, experienced Sept. 11, 2001, through his office window, where his work took
him to the World Trade Center every day. He was lucky that a meeting in one of the
towers was scheduled a half an hour later that day. I would have been in the building
if the meeting had been at 9 a.m., he said.
9/11 MEMORIAL SERVICE:
7 p.m. today. Heartland
Conference of the S.C. Synod
of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America. Sermon
by the Rev. David A. Donges;
members of Conference
Clergy will conduct service.
Mount Tabor Lutheran
Church, 816 Mount Tabor
Road, Little Mountain. (803)
945-7933.
AIRPORT HIGH SCHOOL
9/11 CEREMONY: 7:45 a.m.
Monday. Hosted by student
government, JROTC, and
chorus. Public invited. JROTC
Drill Team demonstration,
chorus musical tributes,
Freedom Flag raising. Airport
High School, 1315 Boston
Ave., West Columbia. (803)
822-6118.
LEXINGTON MEDICAL
CENTER 9/11 CEREMONY:
9 a.m. Monday. Guest
speaker Sheriff James R.
Metts. Woodmen of the
World American flag
presentation. Public invited.
Lexington Medical Center,
North Tower entrance. (803)
939-4512.
IN HONOR AND
REMEMBRANCE
WOODMEN SALUTE
AMERICAS HEROES: 10
a.m. Monday. Flag raising,
dedication of flagpoles, Dutch
Fork High School AFJROTC
Presentation of Colors,
Woodmen of the World
participation. Oak Pointe
Elementary School, 1 River
Bottom Road, Irmo. (803)
781-2848.
FREEDOM WALK: 11 a.m.
Monday. Ten-block walk
from State House to
Memorial Park to
memorialize and honor those
who lost lives 9/11. Meet at
State House, Gervais Street.
(803) 319-5615, (803) 748-
7473,
www.americasupportsyou.co
m.
SILENT PRAYER AND
MEDITATION: 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Monday. Bethlehem Lutheran
Church, Broad River Road,
Irmo. For information, call
Monday-Friday between 10
a.m. and 2 p.m. (803) 781-
3900.
COASTAL CAROLINA
UNIVERSITY 9/11
ANNIVERSARY
OBSERVANCE: 2:30 p.m.
Monday. Memories, Pentagon
pictures, eyewitness
accounts; 3:15 p.m.,
Responses, poetry of disaster,
visual arts; 4 p.m.,
Consequences, Afghanistan:
the Cameras Eye; 4:30 p.m.,
Terrorism, Globalization and
Islam, Understanding
Terrorism. Free. Edwards
College of Humanities and
Fine Arts Building, Coastal
Carolina University. (843)
349-2421.
ART AND ATROCITY:
BEARING WITNESS: 5:45-7
p.m. Monday. Lecture on
9/11, work of Nobel Prize
winner Elie Wiesel, response
of literature and art to
atrocity. Gambrell
auditorium, University of
South Carolina. Free.
jthospital@sc.edu.
PARADE AND MEMORIAL
SERVICE: 7 p.m. Monday.
Service honoring firefighters,
police, EMS, military
personnel who died. Parade
led by bagpipers and
drummers starts at
Summerton Fire Department,
to St. Matthias Episcopal
Church. Emergency
personnel be at Fire
Department at 6:15 p.m. St.
Matthias Episcopal Church,
Summerton. (803) 485-2504.
COMMEMORATION AND
PRAYER VIGIL: 7 a.m.-7 p.m.
Monday. Camden First
United Methodist Church will
be open to all who would like
to pray for families and loved
ones who died Sept. 11, 2001.
704 West Dekalb St.,
Camden. (803) 432-3101.
3 DAYS OF REVIVAL AND
REMEMBRANCE: 7 p.m.
Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday. Recognition of
all military, police, fire,
rescue and school personnel.
Please come in uniform.
Behind Food Lion on Pine
Street, Elgin. (803) 438-3660.
LOCAL
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SECURITY
FIVE YEARS LATER SEPT. 11, 2001
Lower levels of federal spend-
ing on homeland security will
make it more difficult to prepare
those areas, he said.
The federal share sent to S.C.
went to:
Police and local governments
more than $95.4 million for
equipment and training. An addi-
tional $14.6 million is set to be dis-
tributed later this month.
Medicine and inspections
about $99 million went to the De-
partment of Health and Environ-
mental Control. That money up-
graded lab facilities, bought
vaccines, and boosted food, hos-
pital, mail and other inspections.
Fire departments about $44
million bought new communica-
tions equipment, protective gear
and vehicles.
Port security federal money
plugged gaps, including more than
$40 million for a security center at
the Port of Charleston.
Much of the money nearly a
quarter was spent to improve
communications among police, fire
and emergency medical personnel.
The inability of agencies to com-
municate was a key problem dur-
ing New York Citys response to
the terror attacks.
Both Lexington and Kershaw
counties have revamped their ra-
dio system with grants, switching
to a standard system shared by
many counties in the state.
Greenville, Laurens, Pickens and
Spartanburg counties recently
gained a federal grant to switch to
a similar system.
Money also has been used to
buy basic protective gear for all po-
lice officers across the state. Rich-
land and Lexington counties
bought specialized gear for bomb
and hazardous materials squads.
Such gear was the second-high-
est category of spending in the
SLED grant program. Specialized
trucks and vehicles were third
most common.
That has drastically improved
the safety of our systems, said
John Smith, Orangeburg Countys
emergency management director.
We were trying to build capacity.
We knew . . . the money wasnt go-
ing to keep coming in.
Distributing so much money,
Stewart said, has required organi-
zation. U.S. government audits say
South Carolinas grant system is a
model other states should follow.
In 2003, Gov. Mark Sanford
named SLED the lead state agency
for coordinating federal grants.
Stewart said the first step was to
call together police, fire and emer-
gency management systems to
identify needs. A committee made
an early key policy decision.
Every jurisdiction cant have
everything, Stewart said, but
every jurisdiction must have quick
access to everything.
The committee decided every
county with at least 100,000 peo-
ple 14 in the state would get
a basic hazardous materials team.
Four better-equipped teams are
stationed in Charleston, Greenville,
Horry and Richland counties.
The grant committee chose a
similar strategy with regionally
placed units to respond to bombs
or chemical or radiation attacks.
That strategy streamlined main-
tenance costs. That has become
more important as the federal gov-
ernment has shifted grants to
states judged to be at higher risk
of attack. However, many counties
have been left without special re-
sponse units of their own.
It is a risk Smith said Orange-
burg County can live with.
I may not have a team in my
county, but Ive got four of them
around me, he said.
Sanford said the system has not
been perfect, but putting SLED in
charge has eliminated rivalry from
local groups over the money.
With the states budget history
of spreading marbles across the
state, Sanford said, SLEDs sys-
tem has concentrated the marbles
where they can provide the most
benefit. The new gear has not been
mothballed by South Carolina
agencies.
An anthrax scare in Myrtle
Beach in 2002; the discovery of
poisonous ricin in Greenville in
2003; the Graniteville train crash
last year; and numerous hurricane
threats have forced state and local
departments to hone their plans
and training.
Cooperation, Stewart said, is
key to keeping the state safe.
Weve had the drug war, the
crime war, all kinds of war, Stew-
art said. Theres never been any-
thing that required as many disci-
plines be involved as the war on
terrorism.
Reach OConnor
at (803) 771-8358.
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KERSHAW
COUNTY
The county received
$469,348.33 between 2003 and
2006 from the Office of Homeland
Security.
A committee with representatives
from departments and
organizations in the county
determined what was needed.
Following is a sampling of
purchases:
$114,235: Mobile command
vehicle, outfitted for any
disaster, including a weapons of
mass destruction incident
$42,079.06: Computers,
printers and software
$56,971: Thermal cameras,
which can be used in the dark
and show varying degrees of
temperature
$26,733.45: Radio equipment
that can be used in a biohazard
suit and is voice-activated
$21,910: Bulletproof vests
Among organizations benefiting
from purchases: Kershaw County
Sheriffs Office, Camden Fire
Department, Lugoff Fire
Department, Emergency
Organization Center, Mobile
Command Post, Camden Police
Department, Elgin Police
Department, Kershaw County
Coroners Office, Kershaw County
Fire Services and Bethune Police
Department
What theyre saying: Kershaw
County Sheriff Steve McCaskill
said that before his office received
Homeland Security funding, his
officers had to rotate six World
War II gas masks between shifts.
Now, each officer has his own
protective equipment, and they
can get into in a moments notice
and be protected.
Marjorie Riddle
LEXINGTON
COUNTY
The county has received at least
$1.5 million in federal funds for
homeland security, according to
federal, state and local authorities.
The bulk of the federal money
has been channeled through the
State Law Enforcement Division.
But the county also has gotten
federal money in separate funding
for biological and environmental
disasters.
The state environmental agency
said it could not immediately
determine Lexingtons portion of
$3.7 million distributed in a seven-
county region.
Heres a breakdown of some
of Lexington Countys funds:
The largest share: County law
enforcement received $717,000
through SLED in the past three
fiscal years.
What they are getting:
Everything from barricades and
traffic cones to big-ticket items
including $100,000 for a mobile
command post and $99,000 for a
remote-controlled bomb robot.
The second-largest share:
Firefighters received $450,000.
What they are getting:
Equipment ranging from $800
for 800 megahertz radio charges
to $105,000 for nine thermal
imaging cameras that see at
night or through smoke or fog.
Who else benefited?
Emergency preparedness
office about $45,500
Ambulance service about
$44,000
911 telephone center about
$9,500
Clif LeBlanc
9/11: Robert De Niro hosts an updating of
filmmakers Jules and Gedeon Naudets award-
winning program chronicling a New York
firehouses actions on the morning of Sept. 11. In
new interviews, firefighters discuss how their
lives, families and the world have changed in the
five years since the destruction of the World
Trade Center. 8 tonight, WLTX-19, cable
channel 9
The Path to 9/11: A dramatization based on
the 9/11 Commissions report. It demonstrates how
the seeds of the attacks on New York and
Washington were planted in the 1993 World Trade
Center bombing, as well as subsequent bombings
of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and
of the USS Cole in Yemen. It puts forth the
argument that the attacks might have been averted
had it not been for a systemic failure to act by
government authorities. 8 tonight and 8 p.m.
Monday WOLO-25, cable channel 5
Brothers Lost: Stories of 9/11: This
documentary features interviews with 31 men who
offer reflections on the nature of brotherhood, as
they recall their siblings who died on 9/11. 7 p.m.
Monday, Cinemax, cable channel 220
America Rebuilds II: Return to Ground Zero:
The second in a trilogy of documentaries about the
efforts to rebuild ground zero. Actress Mariska
Hargitay narrates. 9 p.m. Monday, WRLK-35,
cable channel 11
Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero: The repeat
airing of this Frontline news program grapples
with the questions of religion and faith through the
reflections of a variety of people from survivors to
the widow of a firefighter; from priests and rabbis
to security guards and opera divas; from Christians
and Jews to Buddhists, Muslims and atheists. The
documentary explores questions of good and evil,
Gods power in the face of malevolence and the
potential for darkness within religion itself. 10
p.m. Monday, WRLK-35, cable channel 11
HOW COUNTIES
SPENT MONEY
New incident response
vehicles and communication
devices were homeland
security spending priorities in
three Columbia-area counties
over the past three years.
Lexington
$473,690 to improve inter-
agency communications
$282,091 for special-
purpose vehicles, such as
armored trucks and equipment
$189,000 for equipment to
detect chemical and biological
hazards
Richland
$802,674 to improve inter-
agency communications
$493,621 for special-
purpose vehicles
$482,502 for bomb-removal
equipment
Kershaw
$134,000 for special-
purpose vehicles
$103,877 to improve inter-
agency communications
$50,894 for bomb-removal
equipment
WHO GOT DOLLARS
Greenville, the states largest
county, received the most
money at more than $2.9
million.
Richland, the second largest
county by population, gained
the next largest amount at
more than $2.8 million.
Lexington, the states fifth
largest county, took in $1.53
million, the eighth largest
amount. It was behind
Charleston, Horry, Spartanburg,
Anderson and York counties.
Kershaw County got more
than $469,000 in money, the
23rd largest amount. It is the
also the states 23rd largest
county.
SOURCE: State Emergency Management Division
UPCOMING TV SHOWS RELATING TO THE SEPT. 11 TERRORIST ATTACKS
WHERE THE
MONEY WENT
More than $95.4 million was spent in
South Carolina on programs and
equipment from 2003 to 2005. The largest
share of money went to improve
communication among agencies.
Interagency communications
$22.3 23.4%
Training, exercises and planning
$14.9 15.6%
Detection and incident-
prevention equipment
$10.4 10.9%
Personal protective equipment
$10.1 10.6%
Incident response vehicles
$7.8 8.3%
Bomb-removal and
decontamination equipment
$5.5 5.7%
Security enhancements
$5.3 5.6%
Other*
$19.1 19.9%
Expense
(in millions)
Percentage
of total spent
* Category includes other equipment, information
technology, medical supplies, agricultural terrorism
prevention and response watercraft.
SOURCE: State Law Enforcement Division
ROB BARGE/THE STATE
RICHLAND
COUNTY
The county has received at least
$3.2 million in federal money for
homeland security.
The bulk of the money, $2.5
million, came through the State Law
Enforcement Division and passed
through the Richland County
Sheriffs Department. That
department doles out the majority of
the money for other fire, police and
emergency services in the county.
SLED also gave nearly $600,000
not received by the Sheriffs
Department to other agencies
within Richland County
government. Many of the items,
though terrorism-related, can be
used for normal emergency activity.
Here is a look at what the
agencies have received or bought
in the last three fiscal years:
$493,621: Incident response
vehicles
$482,502: Explosive device
equipment
$230,361: Personal protective
gear
$25,200: Information
technology
$9,605: Decontamination
equipment
Agencies that received
money were:
Columbia Fire and Rescue
Columbia Police Department
Columbia Bomb Team
Forest Acres Police Department
University of South Carolina
Police
Columbia College Police
Eastover Police Department
Richland County Coroners
Office
Richland County Emergency
Services
Joy L. Woodson
TIM DOMINICK/TDOMINICK@THESTATE.COM
Maj. George Brothers demonstrates a chemical suit mask that has an LED warning system for the air tank. It is
one of the items Lexington County purchased with money from the Department of Homeland Security.
At Lexington
County Airport
in Pelion, Maj.
George
Brothers,
Duane E.
Stevens Jr., and
James Kaiser
familiarize
themselves
with a robot
that can be
operated
remotely for
bomb removal
and hostage
negotiation.
FILE PHOTOGRAPH/THE STATE
By BERTRAM RANTIN
brantin@thestate.com
As Clifton Satterwhite
watched on television as the sec-
ond of two planes crashed into
the World Trade Center, he had
a revelation.
Something said (to me),
Youre going to be called in,
he said.
Satterwhite had
every reason to suspect
as much. As director of
the disaster relief group
of the South Carolina
Baptist Convention, Sat-
terwhite had trained for
such a situation, all the
time praying one would
never come.
But when it did, Mid-
lands residents were
there to lend their
hands, hearts and ears. Satter-
white led a local disaster relief
response team that traveled to
New York in the days and weeks
after the attacks to counsel vic-
tims and rescue workers.
By GREG GORDON
McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON Tony Sanse-
viro stared in shock as his buddy
and fellow firefighter, Danny
Suhr, was struck and killed by a
body falling from the World Trade
Centers burning North Tower on
Sept. 11. Now Sanseviro struggles
with survivors guilt.
Sharon Ambrose lost
one of her two sons in
1999. Then the other,
Paul, was aboard Amer-
ican Airlines Flight 77
when hijackers slammed
the airliner into the Pen-
tagon. When she visits
her sons graves, she
said, I have the over-
whelming urge to lay
down between them.
Wendy Cosgrove
lives with the haunting memo-
ries of her husband Kevins
plaintive cries for help over a cell
phone from the hot and smoky
105th floor of the North Tower,
moments before it collapsed.
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Sunday: Has Homeland
Security money made
South Carolina safer?
Today: Catching up
with the volunteers who
toiled at ground zero
Tuesday: How our
lives have changed
since 9/11
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Celebrating the heroes
of the war in Afghanistan:
A photo page: A6
Honoring
South Carolinas
war dead
S.C.s 9/11
eyewitnesses in
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AFGHANISTAN
FIVE YEARS LATER SEPT. 11, 2001
I
n the months following the 9/11
terrorist attacks as America
prepared to go to war against
Afghanistan men and women
across the country sacrificed family
life and career to join the armed
services.
They made countless acts of
heroism and selflessness.
And many of them will not
return home.
In South Carolina alone, eight
troops with ties to our state have
died in Afghanistan: Army Reserve
Sgt. Edward R. Heselton; Air Force
Staff Sgt. Jason Hicks; S.C.
National Guard Sgt. Stephen High;
Army Sgt. Michael R. Lehmiller;
Marine Capt. Daniel McCollum;
Army Maj. Edward Murphy; Army
Staff Sgt. Tony B. Olaes; and S.C.
National Guard Spc. Chrystal Stout.
For a tribute to South Carolinas
war dead, go to thestate.com.
FILE PHOTOGRAPHS BY MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
U.S. Marines from the 26th Expedition Unit stand guard as the sun sets over Kandahar International Airport on Dec. 18, 2001.
Marines on a light armored vehicle patrol the U.S. Marine
Corps Base in Kandahar on Dec. 28, 2001, as a Super Cobra
helicopter flies overhead.
U.S. Marine light armored vehicles patrol the desert surrounding Kandahar Airport on Dec. 27, 2001.
President Bush speaks
with Canadas Prime
Minister Jean Chretien
on Oct. 7, 2001, one of
several world leaders he
spoke to before telling
the nation of airstrikes
against the Taliban.
A U.S. B-52
bomber flies
over the front
line of
Malawa,
Afghanistan,
during an
assault on the
al Qaida
stronghold of
Tora Bora on
Dec. 7, 2001.
Lance Cpl. Chris Cassa, of Westford, Mass., positions his weapon for the evening watch
at the U.S. Marine Corps Base in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Dec. 28, 2001.
She said her son has since run afoul of the
law and her teenage daughter has mutilated
herself.
Testimony from Sanseviro, Ambrose, Cos-
grove and more than 40 other surviving friends
and relatives at last springs trial of confessed
al Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui of-
fered an extraordinary glimpse of the long-term,
life-altering effects of the terror attacks that
killed 2,972 people.
While some survivors said they have found
ways to move on, others remain emotionally
paralyzed.
Thomas Demaria, a clinical psychologist
who set up the World Trade Center Family Cen-
ter on Long Island, N.Y., said many 9/11 fami-
lies have been unable to experience the normal
two- to three-year cycles of grief: shock and
anger, then confusion and depression and, fi-
nally, resolution.
He pointed to the recurring images of the
attacks on television and, now, in movies.
We found that people were almost sus-
pended in the initial, most painful part of grief,
the coming-to-grips with this tremendous
tragedy, he said. It was prolonged because of
the nature of the exposure people had. They re-
ally couldnt get away from it.
Demaria said the center has provided ther-
apy and grief counseling to about 2,000 family
members of those killed. Its staff also has coun-
seled some 3,500 emergency responders and
their families who are dealing with both grief
and a new fear: that another wave of deaths
will strike fire and rescue crews who breathed
asbestos and other toxins while searching the
smoldering wreckage.
About 600 to 700 family members still visit
the center every month a figure that has
risen recently because the fifth anniversary of
the attacks has rekindled emotions, Demaria
said. He said some are seeking treatment for
the first time.
Research has indicated grief can lead to ill-
ness, even death, and loss of a parent at an early
age can profoundly affect child development.
Mike Low of Batesville, Ark., recalled that,
since the death of his 28-year-old daughter,
Sarah, an American Airlines flight attendant,
his wife, Bobbie, has been in total withdrawal,
refusing to have any contact with family or
friends.
YOU KIND OF LOSE
YOUR WILL TO LIVE
Sanseviro said his close friend Suhr lived
for his wife, Nancy, and their 4-year-old daugh-
ter, Briana. But on the morning of 9/11, Suhr
didnt hesitate to drive a contingent from En-
gine Company 216 to the Trade Center.
When they arrived and headed for the tower,
Sanseviro said, bodies were plunging to the
street from the upper floors. Suddenly, one
came in like a missile and killed him.
Sanseviro, who refused to be interviewed for
this story, testified that he has struggled since
then. He said he and six other firefighters who
wound up attending to Suhr, instead of helping
in the tower, are alive because of Danny.
Last year, at age 37, he retired from the fire
department after being diagnosed with chronic
post-traumatic stress disorder.
Youre alive and everybody else is dead,
Sanseviro said. You kind of lose your will to
live.
Ambroses son Paul was a senior clinical ad-
viser to then-U.S. Surgeon General David
Satcher and was focused on delivering health
care and immunizations to the poor when he
died at age 32.
It just makes you question everything, said
his mother, of Huntington, W.Va.
Cosgrove, of West Islip, N.Y., said she met
her husband when she was a waitress in 1980.
I said, What would you like, sir? He said,
You. They married a few months later.
Kevin Cosgrove worked for Aon Corp., a
reinsurance company, on the 99th floor of the
North Tower. A tape recording of his last, des-
perate phone call for help, shortly before the
tower collapsed, was played at the trial.
He left behind his wife, 12-year-old son, Brian,
and daughters, Claire, 9, and Elizabeth, 4.
I dont think Ill ever learn how to deal with
or get over the fact that Im a widow, Cosgrove
said.
Our job there was to listen to peo-
ples stories, Satterwhite said of the lo-
cal team of hospital and police chaplains,
pastors and other support staff. We
were not there to win converts. We were
there to be a presence somebody to
say, Im sorry.
Just months earlier, many in the
group had taken part in a national vic-
tims assistance training conference in
Pickens County. The conference focused
on crisis counseling and intervention.
We had just trained 42 people for a
week, Satterwhite said, adding he had
no idea at the time
when they would
use that training.
Those answers
would come in the
weeks after the at-
tacks as Satter-
white and other
members of the cri-
sis team sat with,
listened to and
prayed alongside
those who had
been injured or who lost family mem-
bers or friends.
Much of the groups time was spent
talking with rescue workers at ground
zero.
Sometimes they would find a body
or just a helmet, Satterwhite said.
He recalls time spent at the Com-
passion Center in the city, where many
had brought in DNA samples to match
with victims.
Ill never get out of my mind ever,
just walls and walls (filled with signs) of
missing people, he said. Everywhere
you looked, you saw a picture of a miss-
ing person or you talked to someone
who had a family member or a friend
who had been lost.
The S.C. Baptist Convention team in-
cluded volunteers from across the state.
Among them were Paul Hamilton, head
chaplain at The Regional Center of Or-
angeburg and Calhoun Counties, and
Zane Brown, director of missions for the
Colleton Baptist Association.
Our job was just to engage them in
conversations and let them tell the sto-
ries what they remember seeing, hear-
ing, smelling, feeling, said Brown, who
spent a second week working directly
with Port Authority police officers, who
lost 13 of their co-workers.
They were having a tough time,
Brown said. Some of them had not seen
their families in a long time. We prayed
with them. We encouraged them.
Since returning to Columbia, mem-
bers of the Baptist Convention team have
met to share and talk about their expe-
riences.
Theyre continually telling their sto-
ries, Satterwhite said of the volunteers.
And while that has offered a measure
of healing, Satterwhite said its impor-
tant not to dwell on the past.
You want to build on your future be-
cause you just never know when the
next one is going to be, and you always
have to be prepared.
OTHERS WENT TO HELP
Midlands volunteer response to the
9/11 crisis went beyond the S.C. Baptist
Convention.
The Red Cross sent volunteers in-
cluding Bill Bartlett of Columbia, while
Fred McCurdy and Michael Finch were
part of a team of S.C. coroners who trav-
eled to New York to assist in identifying
and embalming victims.
Red Cross employee Rhe Adams,
who lives in Irmo, spent three months
in New York as a case worker. Her job
was to help victims get back on their feet
in many cases finding new jobs or lo-
cating new places to live.
Each morning I arrived at the ser-
vice center to be greeted by hundreds of
people who had waited all night in the
cold to get relief, Adams said. As I
walked by them each morning, I saw the
pain and the struggle in their eyes.
Many from the Midlands business
community also donated their time and
resources. Some traveled to New York
to help; others sent supplies.
Satterwhite said that while the daily
showers in makeshift trailers and meals
at mass kitchens were outside his norm,
it didnt compare to the inconvenience
suffered by those directly affected by the
attacks.
Ill never forget those days we spent
in New York, he said. You come back
from one of those trips and you appre-
ciate everything you have.
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FIVE YEARS LATER SEPT. 11, 2001
Tonights TV shows relating to the
Sept. 11 terrorist attacks
Brothers Lost: Stories of 9/11
Documentary features interviews with
31 men who offer reflections on the
nature of brotherhood, as they recall
their siblings who died on 9/11.
7 p.m., Cinemax, cable channel 220
The Path to 9/11
The second part of a dramatization
based on the 9/11 Commissions
report. The movie demonstrates how
the seeds of the attacks on New York
and Washington were planted in the
1993 World Trade Center bombing,
as well as subsequent bombings of
the U.S. embassies in Kenya and
Tanzania and of the USS Cole in
Yemen. It also puts forth the
argument the attacks might have
been averted had it not been for a
systemic failure to act on the part of
government authorities.
8 p.m., WOLO-25, cable channel 5
America Rebuilds II:
Return to Ground Zero
The second in a trilogy of
documentaries about the efforts to
rebuild ground zero. Actress Mariska
Hargitay narrates. 9 p.m., WRLK-
35, cable channel 11
Faith and Doubt
at Ground Zero
The repeat airing of this Frontline
program grapples with the questions
of religion and faith through the
reflections of a variety of people
from survivors to the widow of a
firefighter; from priests and rabbis to
security guards and opera divas;
from Christians and Jews to
Buddhists, Muslims and atheists.
10 p.m. Monday, WRLK-35, cable
channel 11
AIRPORT HIGH SCHOOL 9/11
CEREMONY: 7:45 a.m. today. Hosted by
student government, JROTC, and
chorus. Public invited. JROTC Drill
Team demonstration, chorus musical
tributes, Freedom Flag raising. Airport
High School, 1315 Boston Ave., West
Columbia. (803) 822-6118.
LEXINGTON MEDICAL CENTER 9/11
CEREMONY: 9 a.m. today. Guest
speaker Sheriff James R. Metts.
Woodmen of the World American flag
presentation. Public invited. Lexington
Medical Center, North Tower entrance.
(803) 939-4512.
IN HONOR AND REMEMBRANCE
WOODMEN SALUTE AMERICAS
HEROES: 10 a.m. today. Flag raising,
dedication of flagpoles, Dutch Fork High
School AFJROTC Presentation of Colors,
Woodmen of the World participation.
Oak Pointe Elementary School, 1 River
Bottom Road, Irmo. (803) 781-2848.
FREEDOM WALK: 11 a.m. today. Ten-
block walk from State House to Memorial
Park to memorialize and honor those who
lost lives 9/11. Meet at State House,
Gervais Street. (803) 319-5615, (803) 748-
7473, www.americasupportsyou.com.
SILENT PRAYER AND MEDITATION: 11
a.m.-1 p.m. today. Bethlehem Lutheran
Church, Broad River Road, Irmo. For
information, call today-Friday between
10 a.m. and 2 p.m. (803) 781-3900.
COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY
9/11 ANNIVERSARY OBSERVANCE:
2:30 p.m. today. Memories, Pentagon
pictures, eyewitness accounts; 3:15 p.m.,
Responses, poetry of disaster, visual
arts; 4 p.m. Consequences, Afghanistan:
the Cameras Eye; 4:30 p.m.,
Terrorism, Globalization and Islam,
Understanding Terrorism. Free.
Edwards College of Humanities and Fine
Arts Building, Coastal Carolina
University. (843) 349-2421.
ART AND ATROCITY: BEARING
WITNESS: 5:45-7 p.m. today. Lecture
discusses 9/11, work of Nobel Prize
winner Elie Wiesel, response of
literature and art to atrocity. Gambrell
auditorium, University of South
Carolina. Free. jthospital@sc.edu.
PARADE AND MEMORIAL SERVICE:
7 p.m. today. Service honoring
firefighters, police, EMS, military
personnel who died. Parade led by
bagpipers and drummers starts at
Summerton Fire Department, to St.
Matthias Episcopal Church. Emergency
personnel be at Fire Department at 6:15
p.m. St. Matthias Episcopal Church,
Summerton. (803) 485-2504.
COMMEMORATION AND PRAYER
VIGIL: 7 a.m.-7 p.m. today. Camden First
United Methodist Church will be open to
all who would like to pray for families and
loved ones who died Sept. 11, 2001. 704
West Dekalb St., Camden. (803) 432-3101.
3 DAYS OF REVIVAL AND
REMEMBRANCE: 7 p.m. today,
Tuesday, Wednesday. Recognition of all
military, police, fire, rescue and school
personnel. Please come in uniform.
Behind Food Lion on Pine Street, Elgin.
(803) 438-3660.
LOCAL EVENTS
ON TELEVISION
In January 2004, I was boarding a
military flight to Kuwait. I was back in
uniform, having been recalled from the
Individual Ready Reserve.
I would spend the rest of the year
working at the seaport in Kuwait,
helping move vehicles and equipment
bound for Iraq and beyond on and off
military sealift ships.
It is impossible for me not to tie
Sept. 11 and my recall to active duty
together. One would not have
happened without the other.
I am not upset about being recalled.
It was part of my military obligation
and I was proud to serve my country
when they needed me the most.
Rob Doering, Columbia

While waiting my turn to crawl
into a hole in the Pentagons C Ring
attempting to rescue trapped Navy
personnel, I watched as a young sailor
with only a T-shirt on for protection
crawled out of the hole created by the
nose of American Airlines Flight 77,
rolled in the broken glass, metal and
water from broken water lines, soaking
himself in an attempt to cool off from
the flames fueled by thousands of
gallons of jet fuel.
Before any of us could react, he
was on his feet, grabbed two fire
extinguishers and crawled back into
the hole spraying the flames trying to
get to his trapped comrades.
This was only one example of
Americas greatest displayed that day:
the young who choose to serve their
country even in time of war, and are
willing to sacrifice all for its citizens.
Col. Edwin C. Morehead, Columbia

Sept. 11, 2001, for this NYS
emergency medical technician began
like many prior work days. ... Our
ambulance, on standby at Seagirt
Boulevard, faced the Twin Towers.
My partner, Tia, looked at me, and
said, Im scared. I right away went
into survivor mode. I knew that our
help would be needed. Falling apart
would not do anyone any good.
New York City streets became a
sea of first responders from near and
far.
I would like to dedicate my
comment to my former supervisor,
Mark Schwartz, who lost his life doing
what he loved to do on Sept. 11, 2001.
Linda Hankins, Columbia

I am commemorating the fifth
anniversary of 9/11 by making a
duplicate of a small quilt for Gov.
Pataki of New York.
The first one I made was sent to
the family of a New York City fireman.
The back was signed by 75 state
employees of the S.C. State Hospital.
I met Gov. Pataki on Aug. 5 at
White Knoll Middle School. I showed
him my copy of the quilt, and he liked
it. I feel honored to be making a quilt
for the governor. Listening to the
speeches at White Knoll Middle School
gave some closure to this event.
Stephanie North, Cayce

As I watched my boss of three
years from the American Red Cross
walk away and leave me stranded in
Charlotte Douglas Airport in early
November of 2001, I thought to myself,
What am I doing here? and I cant
believe I am about to board a plane to
NYC all by myself to go and work on a
disaster relief assignment after 9/11. ...
I was shuttled from Newark to the
Empire Hotel near Lincoln Center in
Lower Manhattan, my home for the
next three months. ... I would be
stationed at the Service Center in SoHo
near the World Trade Center. I also
learned that while in public I was not
allowed to wear anything that said I
worked for the American Red Cross,
not even my name badge, so I wouldnt
be harmed on the street because
someone wanted aid.
Each morning I arrived at the
service center to be greeted by
hundreds of people who had waited all
night in the cold to get relief. As I
walked by them each morning I saw
the pain and the struggle in their eyes.
... I was used [later on an outreach
team] to interpret for the deaf
population of New York, many of
whom had worked in the World Trade
Center and surrounding areas. ...
During my time in NYC, I learned
... disasters affect all cultures in
different ways; friends are everywhere,
and going to NYC gave me a new
found sense of whom I am and what I
love to do.
Rhe Adams, Irmo
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HOW WE HELPED | On Sept. 11, 2001, and beyond, South Carolinians stood up to help the victims of the terrorist attacks:
Stephanie North made this
commemorative quilt.
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COURTESY OF THE S.C. BAPTIST CONVENTION
John Scherberger, center, a disaster relief chaplain with the S.C.
Baptist Convention, talks with a New York resident who is wearing a
photograph of a man missing after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
Kevin Cosgrove with his children
Paul Ambrose with his fiancee
Danny Suhr with his wife and daughter
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We waved more flags, held more
hands, and certainly prayed more
in the days following Sept. 11, 2001.
We vowed, on more than one
occasion, to be more united as
Americans, to be as e pluribus
unum out of many, one as
we could possibly be.
But five years later, were those
lessons truly absorbed into our
national psyche?
NO TROUBLE WITH
PATRIOTISM
Veterans sought each other out
after 9/11 to be together and won-
der how that could happen to us,
said Tom Rabern, commander of
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 641
on Beltline Boulevard. The post
has 936 members, including 640
with lifetime memberships.
Rabern remembers the metal-
lic flag decals on cars and the
flags that fluttered as Americans
By JEFF WILKINSON
jwilkinson@thestate.com
A Columbia development partnership is offering 10
town houses in Arsenal Hill at cost to low-income
neighborhood residents.
At a news conference today, the group will challenge
other developers profiting from downtowns building
boom to adopt similar projects.
The whole purpose of this program is to help the peo-
ple that need the
housing get the
housing, said de-
veloper Brian
Boyer, who also is
a member of the
Columbia Afford-
able Housing Task
Force. Were ask-
ing other develop-
ers and home
builders to step up.
Civic Partners
LLC is offering the
two-bedroom, 2-
bath town houses
at Wayne and Rich-
land streets, not far
from the Gover-
nors Mansion, for
about $96,000.
They will be offered
first to Arsenal Hill
public housing res-
idents, then to the
remainder of the
residents of the pre-
dominantly black neighborhood who qualify for the citys
low-income loan program.
That program is open to residents who make 80 per-
cent of the areas median household income. That
amounts to about $48,500 or less for a family of four or
$25,000 or less for someone who is single.
By JOY L. WOODSON
jwoodson@thestate.com
It happens every day on Wade Kelly Road the dust,
the rocks, the potholes.
The unpaved road in Blythewood has caused car prob-
lems, accidents and inconveniences, residents say. Chil-
dren cant safely ride bicycles down the bumpy road, and
at least one school bus slid into a ditch.
That road was supposed to be paved a long time
ago, said Andrea Hughlett, who has lived on Wade Kelly
Road since 1998. I just feel that theyre blowing a lot of
hot air.
Residents received letters two years ago saying the
road would be fixed this summer under Richland Countys
road paving program. But the road, along with dozens
more, will not be paved this year.
By NOELLE PHILLIPS
nophillips@thestate.com
CPL. DAVID WEIMORTZ
The name should be printed big
and bold because it is how friends
and family described the man they
bid farewell to Monday.
Friends who delivered Weimortzs
eulogy described him as mischievous,
funny, competitive, wild and irrever-
ent.
He sometimes took things too far
just for the sake of taking things too
far, said friend Myles Solomon, who
also called Weimortz my most im-
portant friend.
Weimortz was killed by a roadside
bomb in Iraq last month, six days be-
fore his 29th birthday. The 41st ser-
vice member with S.C. ties to die in
Iraq, he was on his third tour with the
U.S. Marine Corps.
A horse-drawn carriage delivered
Weimortzs casket to Riverland Hills
Baptist Church just before 11 a.m. as
his family walked behind it. Marine
Corps pall bearers carried the casket
into the sanctuary where nearly 900
gathered to laugh over stories about
Weimortz and then cry because they
have an ending.
Three friends and a childhood
By TERENCE HUNT
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON Five years after the worst ter-
ror attack in U.S. history, President Bush said Mon-
day night the war against terrorism is the calling
of our generation and urged Americans to put
aside differences and fight to victory.
America did not ask for this war, and every
American wishes it were over,
Bush said. The war is not
over and it will not be over
until either we or the extrem-
ists emerge victorious.
Bush, in a prime time ad-
dress from the Oval Office,
staunchly defended the war in
Iraq even though he acknowl-
edged that Saddam Hussein was not responsible
for the 9/11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.
He said Saddams regime, while lacking
weapons of mass destruction, was a clear threat
that posed a risk the world could not afford to
take. At least 2,600 U.S. servicemen and women
have died in Iraq.
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A caisson Monday bears the body of Cpl. David Weimortz of Irmo who joined the Marines 18 months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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Key differences in
our daily lives, Page A3
Celebrating the he-
roes of the war in Iraq
in photos, Page A5
Somber ceremonies
marked the day, Page A6
Companies ensure
operations can continue
after a disaster, Page B6
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Honoring South
Carolinas war dead
S.C.s 9/11 eye-
witnesses
A struggle for civilization
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He was my brother ... my hero
Bush declares the war
on terrorism the calling
of our generation
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Some lessons are still with us
Richlands rules
for paving roads
may get retread
Partnership hopes Arsenal Hill plan
will create more affordable housing
Town
homes
offered
to poor
Friends, family
remember Marine who
died in Iraq bombing
NEW YORK CITY
Patricia Smith holds her
fathers hand as
victims names,
including that of her
mother, police officer
Moira Smith, are read.
THE FACES OF REMEMBRANCE
BUILDINGOURCITY
THE PENTAGON
First responders salute
from atop the flag-
draped Pentagon during
Mondays ceremony
honoring the 184 lives
lost in the 9/11 attack.
SHANKSVILLE, PA.
Jody Greene, 11,
daughter of a Flight 93
passenger, places a
teddy bear at the
temporary memorial to
victims of the crash.
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are offering 10 town houses at
cost as an Arsenal Hill housing
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Has Homeland
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Catching up with
the volunteers who
toiled at ground
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Today
How our lives
have changed
since 9/11.
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By JIM DuPLESSIS
jduplessis@thestate.com
On Sept. 11, 2001, Dale and
Ann Hampton got a call from their
daughter, who was at her Army
base in Korea. That same morn-
ing, Mills Bigham was a sopho-
more in high school, and the days
curriculum switched to watching
atrocities unfold on television.
Three years after 9/11, the
Hamptons daughter, Capt. Kim-
berly Hampton, would be dead in
Iraq at age 27, and Bigham would
be headed to Parris Island for Ma-
rine Corps basic training and
eventually to Iraq.
On Monday, Bigham, 20,
watched from the audience at the
State Museum as the Hamptons
handed over one of their daugh-
ters uniforms for a traveling ex-
hibit to honor the memories of
South Carolinians who have
served overseas since the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks. The exhibit con-
sists of panels and an electronic
kiosk that show photographs, e-
mail and other items.
By knowing our history, we
can know not to repeat things that
were bad, and repeat things that
were good, said U.S. Rep. Joe
Wilson, R-Springdale, who spoke
at Mondays event.
The exhibit will tour the state
for the next six months as part of
the South Carolina Confederate
Relic Room and Military Mu-
seums Write from the Front pro-
gram.
The Hamptons recalled the
Sept. 11, 2001, call from Kimberly
from her post in Korea.
I understood from her voice
she understood the gravity of what
was happening, Dale Hampton
said. They were all ready to go
wherever.
Capt. Hampton was piloting an
observation helicopter in Iraqs An-
bar province on Jan. 2, 2004, when
it crashed after being hit by ground
fire. She was the first woman U.S.
military pilot killed in combat, and
the 492nd member of the U.S. mil-
itary killed in combat in Iraq a
toll that stood at 2,127 Monday.
Six months after her death, the
Hamptons visited the site where
the World Trade Center had stood.
Dale Hampton said it felt eerie to
be at the place where events be-
gan that led to the death of the
couples only child.
It gave us a sense of connec-
tion with all who died there, he
said. We didnt feel alone. We
knew we were part of a family.
Bigham, who graduated from A.C.
Flora High School, said he felt a de-
sire to help after 9/11, but his decision
to join the Marines was prompted by
Clemson Universitys rejection of his
application for admission.
Bigham went to Iraq in De-
cember 2005. Three soldiers from
his battalion died in combat dur-
ing his two months in Anbar
province. He is scheduled to return
to Iraq next March.
Bighams Marine enlistment
ends in October 2008, but he hopes
to get out early and enroll at USC.
Reach DuPlessis at (803) 771-8305.
pastor gave tributes. The friends
told stories about Weimortz teas-
ing teachers at Irmo Elementary
School, cheering for the USC
Gamecocks and knocking balls
around golf courses.
In early August, Solomon and
Weimortz talked about their up-
coming 29th birthdays and specu-
lating what it would be like to get
old.
He said, I have the body of an
18-year-old but the mind of a 4-
year-old golden retriever,
Solomon said.
As Solomon spoke, pictures of
Weimortz flashed onto the sanc-
tuary wall. The crowd giggled
about the 1980s-style shorts and
sagging tube socks in his boyhood
basketball photos, a teenage face
slathered in shaving cream and his
silly dance poses from friends
weddings.
See how you were laughing
right there? Thats how Dave
wanted yall to remember him,
Solomon said. I ask that when
you think of him, laugh out loud
at least once because if he were
there, thats what he would try to
get you to do.
Another childhood friend, Eliz-
abeth Gantt Perla shared e-mails
she received from Weimortz when
he was in Iraq:
Everyone, I am going on a
mission tomorrow. Its called Op-
eration Great Looking. Naturally,
I will be heading it up. We will
have our weapons, hair gel, pocket
mirrors and saucy attitudes.
She also read Weimortzs e-
mail about mistakenly using the
Iraqi equivalent of Raid instead of
insect repellent meant for human
skin.
From head to ankle, my 6 5/230
lbsbody was marinated in a chem-
ical so strong Saddam could have
used it to gas the Kurds! I get ner-
vous when I see Marines light up
cigarettes anywhere close to me.
But Weimortz could show a se-
rious side.
College roommate Todd Gayle
said Weimortz lifted him through
the loss of his brother.
David, it was truly an honor,
Gayle said. I love you buddy.
And Perla read one of
Weimortzs e-mails from the front
line. At the time, his platoon was
living in a bombed-out motel on
the outskirts of a heavily populated
insurgent town.
I have been involved in nu-
merous missions and I am hon-
ored and proud to be a part of this
historic process, he wrote. I feel
an unbelievable amount of ac-
complishment and that is what
gets me through the hot and very
lonely days. This place has
changed my life in only 3 short
months. I am ever so thankful to
have friends and family that care
for me.
Weimortz is survived by his
mother, Fran Fellers; his father,
Joseph Weimortz; and his sister,
Kelly Weimortz. He was especially
close to Kelly, and those who
spoke often addressed her from
the churchs pulpit.
After the service, Kelly
Weimortz said she adored her
older brother even when he was
picking on her or complaining
about attending her dance recitals.
He was my brother, my father,
my grandfather, my heart, my hero
and sometimes my 3-year-old tod-
dler. I felt like I could get through
anything with David.
Reach Phillips at
(803) 771-8307.
took refuge in their collective
mourning for the victims and in
their resolve to stick together.
Like everything, once the shiny
has worn off, its not as good a toy,
Rabern said. But even if fewer flags
fly now, by and large, everybody
is still patriotic. I know the people
that I deal with are proud of the
young men who are coming back
from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Once a month, VFW Post 641
hosts a friendship dinner for any-
one who wants to learn about the
post, and its patriotic and social
activities.
He said young veterans are not
signing up at the VFW as readily
as their elders who fought in
World War II did. That generation,
now passing on, was a different
breed, he said.
Most who do come in are wor-
ried, Rabern said. If they are (mil-
itary) career people, they are go-
ing to have to turn around and go
again.
Each Friday night at the post,
when members and their guests
gather to socialize, the last song
the Jeff Crider band plays is
Stand Up for America.
Everybody stands up, said
Rabern, a veteran of Korea and
Vietnam. They sing, they get on
the floor and hold hands and just
have a fellowship together. Some
of them who are (sitting beside the
dance floor) light their cigarette
lighters or candles. We, at our post,
have no trouble with patriotism.
CAN WE GET ALONG?
Politicians vowed to get along
in the wake of 9/11, to avoid the
partisan shout-downs that seemed
to characterize American politics,
particularly in the wake of the dis-
puted 2000 presidential election.
And there were displays of
unity in the days following the fall
of the twin towers.
But that was not destined to
last, said William Hine, a history
professor at South Carolina State
University in Orangeburg.
Even if somehow (Osama) bin
Ladin had been captured in the
months and years afterward, I
dont think we would have main-
tained this American unity, Hine
said. Historically, we have been
divided by issues that still divide
us. We have been divided over is-
sues like immigration, abortion,
prayer in the public schools, and
those all reared themselves up
pretty quickly after 9/11.
Many Americans compare
Sept. 11 to the Dec. 7, 1941, attack
on Pearl Harbor, which galvanized
Americans to enter World War II
and fight the Nazis and the Japan-
ese empire. But Hine said there is
a difference.
Post-Dec. 7, the American peo-
ple were called upon to make
enormous sacrifices, he said. To-
day, the American people, with the
exception of military families,
sadly, havent been called on to
make any sacrifices. You want
people to be committed to a cause,
but there is no price to be paid.
There is no sacrifice.
Some politicians have at-
tempted to be bipartisan.
For example, U.S. Sen. Lindsey
Graham, R-S.C., has tried to reach
consensus on difficult topics and
to work with centrist Republicans
and Democrats. But the Grahams,
John McCains and Barak Obamas
are exceptions, Hine said.
Having America divided has
benefited most politicians because it
unifies their core support, Hine said.
CHANGING ATTITUDES
Soon after 9/11, there was talk
of a huge uptick in church mem-
bership and a revival of religious
faith, a sort of 21st century Great
Awakening.
But many leaders of faith
groups say they understood the
great outpouring of spirituality and
churchgoing in the days following
9/11 would run its course.
The adage about there being
no atheists in foxholes held sway
during 9/11.
I dont think crisis ever perma-
nently changes anything, said the
Rev. Dick Lincoln, pastor of Shan-
don Baptist Church. I did not ex-
pect that (event) to make a spiritual
change in the life of the nation.
I did think it was wonderful
that so many peoples instinct was
to turn to God, he said. But, he
added, it takes deep reflection, not
simply crisis, to bring people to an
understanding of their need for
God.
Glenn Gentry, professor of phi-
losophy and apologetics at Co-
lumbia International University,
said he, too, never bought into the
speculation about increased
church attendance.
Americans, he said, will never
forget the threat of terrorism, but
they may forget to go to church.
Some things did change dra-
matically that day, Gentry said.
Christians have a different at-
titude toward the Islamic faith than
they did before and a different at-
titude toward post-modernism, he
said. They are less willing to say,
Whatever you believe is fine with
me.
What I hear now are more so-
phisticated questions. Yes, there
are moderate Muslims, but why
arent we hearing their voices?
Gentry, who has read widely in
the sacred writings of the worlds
faiths, tries to impart to his Chris-
tian students that the world is a
small place. They must inevitably
be engaged with and respect peo-
ple of other faiths even as they de-
fend their own beliefs.
I think this century may well
be the struggle for world views
among religions, Gentry said.
What 9/11 might have done for
Christians, he said, is to make them
think more deeply about their faith
and figure how to live in a world
with competing religious views.
American Christians have been
able to co-exist with a Western
popular culture they often dislike,
a tolerance he says radical Mus-
lims have not accepted.
He longs for the day when peo-
ple of different faiths say, I dont
think your world view is right, but I
say that in a respectful way. I recog-
nize you are not going to convert me
and Im not going to convert you.
Reach Click at (803) 771-8386.
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TOM CROCKETT, a resident of Newport News, Va., who was in
Columbia on the day of the event:
Interviewed Sept. 11: One aspect of this is somehow not letting
it stand in the way. If they can shut everything down, then theyve
won.
Today: To a certain extent, they were successful in that they have
contributed to our living in a state of fear. From my perspective, the
only real response thats a real counter to the terrorist attacks is our
individually making choices to not live in fear.
FELIX FIGUEROA, principal at Bethel-Hanberry
Elementary School:
Interviewed Sept. 11: Well have an opportunity to reflect in a
school setting later on. Its real difficult. There are so many ways
children can react. Were just trying to keep calm.
Today: In reflecting on the entire thing, all our schools have a
heightened sense of maintaining safety in our environment. We are
concerned about anything that could harm our children. The direct
relationship from 9/11 is it intensified thoughts about things that
can occur, and our children have learned about it, too.
STEVEN CUFFE, University of South Carolina professor
and child psychiatrist:
Interviewed Sept. 11: The attack was a trauma to the American
psyche. It happened on our soil. There is a feeling of helplessness
that this could happen next door. Its hard to fight terrorism.
Today: I really think, if anything, the same issues are prevalent
today even though they (the terrorists) havent actually successfully
had another terrorist attack (in the United States).
It doesnt feel like its been five years to me. It still feels fresh to me
and is bound to be still frightening to people.
I do think that the American people have shown a great deal of
resilience and really gone on with their lives and dealt with these
issues well.
STEVE MANN, University of South Carolina finance professor,
travels to New York four to five times a year and taught classes in the
World Trade Center:
Interviewed Sept. 12, 2001: Ive only become angry today.
Yesterday my heart was broken. I feel like my neighborhood has
been violated. I couldnt watch it (on television).
Today: The wound is still open, but its healed some. I have to
admit when I read that, my eyes filled with tears. The anger has
morphed into sadness.
I still feel the same way about the threat of terrorism. Im not going
to let them stop me from going to New York or London. They may
get me, but Im not going to cower in fear in the meantime.
Its something I will never completely get over.
LILLA MYERS, 90, a resident of WildeWood Downs in
Northeast Richland:
Interviewed Sept. 11, 2001: Ive lived through the Depression.
Ive lived through World War II. I never thought I would live to see
this. This will change our childrens lives.
Today: Any war, anything like that, makes a big change in peoples
lives. (Thinking about 9/11) doesnt affect me all the time. I do think
about it occasionally, especially when the day comes up. You cant
be thinking about those things every minute and live a natural,
normal life.
Marjorie Riddle
Crockett Cuffe Mann Figueroa
THEN AND NOW
The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, left lasting impressions
on South Carolinians about a world forever altered. We
followed up with some of the Columbia-area residents and
visitors we talked with on that day five years ago to see how
their perspectives have changed through the years:
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Tim Anderson stood tall with
his American flag at Memorial
Park on the fifth anniversary of the
Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Its a tough day for people that
were directly affected, he said at
Mondays Freedom Walk in Co-
lumbia. The human suffering was
pretty tremendous.
Anderson and his wife, Sandy,
who were living in Virginia at the
time of the attacks, stood during
the commemorative ceremony lis-
tening and reflecting on their lives
and those they will never know.
Its crazy, she said. If you
werent affected you know some-
one who knows someone who
was.
About 100 people gathered at
the State House and walked to
Memorial Park on Washington
Street to honor the victims, sur-
vivors, families, military and first
responders of Sept. 11.
Its a fitting tribute to remem-
ber our committed and fallen ser-
vice and public safety members,
said Columbia Mayor Bob Coble.
This should be a day of remem-
brance for all of us.
After five years, tears still well
up in the eyes of those who think
about the 9/11 victims and family
members.
We are here because its bet-
ter than sitting in front of the tele-
vision crying, said Liz Mulvihill.
You have to be mindful that
we dont take things for granted
because it is good again, added
her husband, John. We cant for-
get what has happened and that
there is endless possibilities of
what tomorrow could be.
Many people were at work
when they learned something was
wrong at the World Trade Center.
Not everyone believed what was
unfolding.
It took a while before I be-
lieved it, said John H. Beard. I
thought it was a commercial or
something. I thought that no one
could really do that to us.
Every time I think about it, it
tears out my heart, said Valerie
James, another walker, who was
accompanied by her 2-year-old
son, Duncan. I was completely
mortified because I had never seen
anything like that before.
There were those who defied
the unknown and risked their lives
to save others.
In the face of so much terror,
so many Americans rose above
fear. They rose above fear to duty,
said Col. Eddie Stevens,garrison
commander at Fort Jackson.
People from all walks of life,
including first responders and mil-
itary personnel, rose to the call, he
said.
The thought that the United
States could see another attack is
never far for many.
It makes me realize that it can
happen again, Beard said. We
are as vulnerable as any place or
country.
Reach Jackson
at (803) 771-8512.
Columbians walk to park
to honor victims, heroes
This should be a day
of remembrance for
all of us, Coble says
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Sandy Anderson leans on her husband, Tim Anderson, Monday during a State House event
to honor those who died on Sept. 11, 2001.
Couple felt connection in visit to ground zero
Parents of woman
killed in Iraq donate
uniform to exhibit
Kimberly Hampton
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IRAQ
FIVE YEARS LATER SEPT. 11, 2001
FILE PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE STATE, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
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orty-eight troops with ties to South Carolina
have died in the Iraq war. The youngest was
19; the oldest, 52.
They battled insurgents. They soothed innocent
citizens caught in the crossfire.
They laughed over stories from home. They
grieved over their lost comrades.
They sacrificed their lives for their country. For
freedom.
They will not be forgotten.
For a tribute to South Carolinas war dead, go
to the state.com.
The Iraqi capital of Baghdad is hit by U.S. cruise missiles on March 20, 2003.
Lt. Rebecca Elliott, right, of Clemson, calms
a young Iraqi girl on May 20, 2003. A soldier from 3rd Infantry Division out of Fort Benning, Ga., salutes a fallen soldier on April 16, 2003, in Baghdad.
Soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division wait in line for lunch during a sandstorm on April 16, 2003, at Camp Udairi, Kuwait.
Spc. Veronica
Green-Windham,
left, and Spc.
Sharonda Rogers
compare letters
from family and
friends in Bayji,
Iraq, on April 23,
2003. It took
nearly a month
for the mail to
make its way up
the long supply
lines.
Pfc. Cody Force, left, looks down the sights of his
M-16 at an Iraqi being taken into custody by Sgt.
Hector Santiago, with the 3rd Infantry Division,
near Najaf, Iraq, in March 2003.
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FIVE YEARS LATER SEPT. 11, 2001
MIKE DERER/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
James Olson of Jersey City, N.J., gazes Monday on the New York City skyline,
where the World Trade Center towers stood before the terrorist attacks.
I didnt want to forget.
Too many people want to
forget. I come because I
choose to remember.
KATHY KLINGAMON,
a United flight attendant
visiting Shanksville, Pa.
As I said 31 years ago
tomorrow, I will love you
and honor you all the days
of our life. Happy
anniversary, my love.
LINDA LITTO, who lost
her husband, Vincent Litto, at
the World Trade Center
This is where she left
us, so we come here to
remember her and keep her
alive.
SHERRIE WILLIAMS,
mother of Candace Lee
Williams, killed at age 20 on
American Airlines Flight 11,
speaking at ground zero
The pain just doesnt go
away.
DAWN DONOVAN, 45,
of Rutherford, N.J., gazing
across the Hudson River from
Jersey City toward ground
zero, where friends of hers
died
Its very hard. Our
family has just been ripped
apart. I still hold a lot of
anger, and thats not only at
the terrorists. I stayed mad
at God for quite some time,
even at Al (her husband), I
stayed mad at him. I was
supposed to have the rest
of my life with him. We were
together nine years. That is
not forever.
REBECCA
MARCHAND, of
Alamogordo, N.M., whose
husband was a flight
attendant on United Airlines
Flight 175
Baby, I love you. Save a
spot for me.
RICHARD
PECORELLA, a speaker at
the reading of the names at
ground zero, who lost his
fiancee, Karen S. Juday, in
the trade center attack
There is indeed evil in
the world, and we saw its
awful face on that horrible
day. It is also a day to
recognize that very often
when the worst in human
nature and human behavior
exhibits itself, so does the
best.
CONDOLEEZZA RICE,
secretary of state, speaking in
Halifax, Nova Scotia
We stand here today
with pride because of
heroism.
HAMILTON
PETERSON, whose father
and stepmother died aboard
hijacked United Airlines
Flight 93, where passengers
are believed to have stormed
the cockpit before it crashed
near Shanksville, Pa.
You just have a few
minutes down there, only a
few, but its very powerful.
MARY ADAMS, on
visiting the floor of the pit at
ground zero, where her
brother, Charles Murphy, died
I love you. ... My
thoughts are your thoughts,
until the end of time.
CHARLES WOLF,
reading the name of his wife,
Katherine, who died in the
trade center collapse
I am grateful to have
our child to raise, and to
help her understand that her
mother was and still is the
pride of New York City.
JAMES SMITH, police
officer, whose wife, Moira
Smith, was the only female
law enforcement officer to die
on Sept. 11, 2001
Be an angel to my
children. May our
grandchildren, two
generations after us, be
born into a world where
they dont have to stand
here, ever.
DOROTA ZOIS,
reading the name of her late
husband, Paul
The wind really whipped
up, because they are
constantly around. All these
souls are here. They are
here. Theres no closure.
DIANA OTTOMANO,
whose nephew died in the
south tower
From Wire Services
By AMY WESTFELDT
and ERIN McCLAM
The Associated Press
NEW YORK Clutching photos
to their hearts and blowing kisses
to the sky, the tearful loved ones
of the Sept. 11 victims recited a
3-hour litany of the lost Monday
in a fifth-anniversary remem-
brance as spare and stark as the
World Trade Center site itself.
The centerpiece of the nations
commemorations was the mostly
barren 16-acre expanse at ground
zero, where four moments of si-
lence were observed to mark the
precise times jetliners crashed into
the twin towers and the skyscrap-
ers crumbled to the ground.
The achingly familiar task of
reading the names of the 2,749
trade center victims fell this year
to their husbands, wives and part-
ners, who personalized the roll call
with heartbreaking tributes to the
loves of their lives.
If I could build a staircase to
heaven, I would, just so I could
quickly run up there to have you
back in my arms, said Carmen
Suarez, widow of city police offi-
cer Ramon Suarez.
On a crisp, sunny day not un-
like the morning of the attacks,
family members descended into
the pit 70 feet below ground where
the towers stood, tearfully laying
wreaths and roses in the sky-
scrapers footprints.
The mournful sound of bag-
pipes echoed across ground zero
after a choir performed the na-
tional anthem.
Five years from the date of the
attack that changed our world,
weve come back to remember the
valor of those we lost those who
innocently went to work that day
and the brave souls who went in
after them, said Rudolph Giuliani,
New Yorks mayor during the at-
tacks. We have also come to be
ever mindful of the courage of
those who grieve for them and the
light that still lives in their hearts.
The ritual has changed little
since the first anniversary of the
attacks, and in many ways the site
has remained the same as well.
Squabbles over design and se-
curity have caused long delays in
the project to rebuild at ground
zero. Only this year did construc-
tion start on a Sept. 11 memorial
and the 1,776-foot Freedom Tower,
which isnt expected to be finished
for five more years.
President Bush ate breakfast
with New York firefighters, and a
day earlier walked ground zero
and laid wreaths in reflecting pools
that symbolized the north and
south towers.
Cox Newspapers contributed.
By DAN NEPHIN
The Associated Press
SHANKSVILLE, Pa. One man
rode seven hours on his motor-
cycle to attend the ceremony. A
15-year-old girl hoped to under-
stand the deaths of 40 airline pas-
sengers and crew. Another visi-
tor was a flight attendant.
They were among hundreds of
people who gathered Monday in
a wind-swept field to remember
Flight 93, the hijacked jetliner in
which passengers tried to storm
the cockpit on Sept. 11, 2001, to
wrest control from terrorists
shortly before the plane crashed
in southwestern Pennsylvania.
The passengers were ordinary
citizens one moment and the
next, heroes forever, Gen.
Tommy Franks said. We mourn
their loss, to be sure, but we also
celebrate their victory here in the
first battle on terrorism.
The flight had been headed
from Newark, N.J., to San Fran-
cisco when hijackers took over,
apparently planning to crash the
jet into the White House or the
Capitol.
I believe I may owe my life to
those ordinary people, said Re-
publican Rep. Bill Shuster, whose
district includes the crash site.
Conversations from the flights
final minutes indicated the pas-
sengers knew about the attacks
in New York and took action af-
ter one of them said, Lets roll.
They didnt back down, said
Jim Martin, 51, of Buffalo, N.Y.,
who rode his Harley-Davidson to
the ceremony. I dont want those
people to be forgotten. Theyre re-
ally heroes.
About 1,000 people attended
the memorial service, including
nearly 300 relatives of victims.
President Bush laid a wreath
at the crash site and privately
greeted family members in a cold
drizzle as they marked the fifth
anniversary of attacks.
A 10-foot-tall chain-link fence
stands near the site as a tempo-
rary memorial, festooned with
American flags, firefighters
helmets and drawings by chil-
dren.
Organizers hope to raise $30
million in private funding to build
a permanent memorial on a
1,700-acre site in Shanksville.
At the ceremony, Gov. Ed Ren-
dell announced the state would
sign a commitment letter to give
$10 million to the memorial effort,
and that it had acquired 300 acres
around the crash site that will be
managed as a public wildlife area.
Some thoughts of President Bush about the
Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, from an inter-
view Monday on NBCs Today show
What most struck him about the attacks five
years ago:
I realized that we were involved in an ide-
ological struggle akin to the Cold War ... and
its a sobering thought.
What he feels has been accomplished in the
five years since that fateful day:
... Ive got a pretty good crystal ball, if I
could have anticipated all of that. I knew we
were going to have to have resolve. These were
cold-blooded killers, willing to kill in a variety
of ways. In the long term, weve got to defeat
an ideology of hate with an ideology of hope.
With all the intelligence reports he is regu-
larly briefed on, how does he sleep at night?
My job is to make sure you do sleep.
Theyre out there (terrorists), and theyre dan-
gerous, and we spend a lot of time thinking
about it.
From his address to the nation from the
Oval Office on Monday night:
On the heroism of Americans:
On 9/11, our nation saw the face of evil. Yet
on that awful day, we also witnessed something
distinctly American: ordinary citizens rising to
the occasion, and responding with extraordi-
nary acts of courage.
On democratic reform in the Middle East:
By standing with democratic leaders and
reformers, by giving voice to the hopes of de-
cent men and women, we are offering a path
away from radicalism. And we are enlisting the
most powerful force for peace and moderation
in the Middle East: the desire of millions to be
free.
On working together to win the war on ter-
ror:
Our nation has endured trials, and we face
a difficult road ahead. Winning this war will re-
quire the determined efforts of a unified coun-
try. So we must put aside our differences and
work together to meet the test that history has
given us.
The Associated Press
BUSH
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Names of the lost rise from void at ground zero
Bush, relatives honor heroes on Flight 93
PRESIDENT BUSH,
IN HIS OWN WORDS
NEW YORK CITY
SHANKSVILLE, PA.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
President Bush addresses
the nation from the Oval
Office on Monday night.
THE PENTAGON
Speeches mark deaths at Pentagon, in battle
By KEN HERMAN
and DAVID HO
Cox News Service
WASHINGTON On a day when
politics largely was put on hold,
Defense Secretary Donald Rums-
feld bolstered President Bushs re-
sponse to the Sept. 11 attacks at a
Pentagon memorial service.
Rumsfeld offered a generalized
defense of Bushs strategy.
The highest tribute we can pay
to them, Rumsfeld said of military
personnel who have died in the
war, is to commit ourselves to
doing everything possible to fight
the extremists wherever they are,
to making every effort to stay
united as a country and to give our
truly outstanding men and women
in uniform all they need to suc-
ceed.
Rumsfeld and Vice President
Dick Cheney strode side by side to
a speakers platform.
Rumsfeld appeared to struggle
with his emotions as he recalled
the day of the attacks, and
Cheney vowed resolve: We have
no intention of ignoring or ap-
peasing historys latest gang of fa-
natics trying to murder their way
to power.
Cheney said the battle against
terrorism remains fierce and it
will be lengthy.
But it is not endless, he
told a nation yearning for an end.
Our cause is right. Our will is
strong. This great nation will pre-
vail.
President Bush and the first
lady placed a wreath near a plaque
on the outside of the Pentagon,
where American Airlines Flight 77
claimed 184 lives and tore a gash
in the building.
Bush appeared teary-eyed as he
greeted victims family members
around him, and he could be seen
mouthing, God bless you, as he
embraced them.
The Associated Press con-
tributed.
Whatever mistakes have been
made in Iraq, the worst mistake
would be to think that if we
pulled out, the terrorists would
leave us alone, the president
said. They will not leave us
alone. They will follow us.
The address came at the end
of a day in which Bush honored
the memory of the attacks that
rocked his presidency and thrust
the United States into a costly
and unfinished war against ter-
ror.
It was a day of mourning, re-
membrance and resolve. Before
his address, Bush visited New
York, Shanksville, Pa., and the
Pentagon to place wreaths and
console relatives of the victims.
Five years ago, this date
Sept. 11 was seared into Amer-
icas memory, the president said.
Nineteen men attacked us with
a barbarity unequaled in our his-
tory.
Bush said Osama bin Laden,
the mastermind of the attack, and
other terrorists are still in hiding.
Our message to them is clear:
No matter how long it takes,
America will find you, and we
will bring you to justice.
Bush said the war on terror
was nothing less than a struggle
for civilization and must be
fought to the end. He said defeat
would surrender the Middle East
to radical dictators armed with
nuclear weapons.
We are fighting to maintain
the way of life enjoyed by free na-
tions, Bush said. Two months
before the November elections,
he attempted to spell out in
graphic terms the stakes he sees
in the unpopular war in Iraq and
the broader war on terror.
He said Islamic radicals are
trying to build an empire where
women are prisoners in their
homes, men are beaten for miss-
ing prayer meetings and terror-
ists have a safe haven to plan and
launch attacks on America and
other civilized nations.
The war against this enemy
is more than a military conflict,
Bush said. It is the decisive ide-
ological struggle of the 21st cen-
tury and the calling of our gen-
eration.
Five years ago, the attacks
transformed Bushs presidency
and awakened the world to bin
Laden and his band of al-Qaida
terrorists. While the public has
soured on the war in Iraq, which
Bush calls the central front in the
war on terror, the president still
gets high marks for his handling
of Sept. 11.
Terrorism has been a potent
political issue for Republicans,
and they hope to capitalize on it
in the elections. GOP lawmakers
are anxious about holding on to
control of both houses of Con-
gress.
Congress has approved $432
billion for Iraq and the war on
terrorism.
The safety of America de-
pends on the outcome of the bat-
tle in the streets of Baghdad, the
president said. He quoted bin
Laden as calling Iraq the Third
World War.
If we do not defeat these en-
emies now, we will leave our chil-
dren to face a Middle East over-
run by terrorist states and radical
dictators armed with nuclear
weapons, Bush said. We are in
a war that will set the course for
this new century and determine
the destiny of millions across the
world.
Earlier in the day, dozens of
lawmakers, Republicans and De-
mocrats alike, joined on the steps
of the Capitol to remember the
attacks, singing God Bless
America as they had five years
ago.
House Democratic leader
Nancy Pelosi said Monday, Five
years later, we have to continue
to move forward with unity, ur-
gency and in the spirit of inter-
national cooperation, because we
are not yet fully healed and not
yet as safe as we should be.
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NOWHERE
TO RUN
By CLAUDIA SMITH BRINSON
cbrinson@thestate.com
Eight years, plus a million words or
so, plus a million dollars or more and the
South Carolina Encyclopedia is all yours.
On Sept. 29, the most comprehensive
effort ever to detail South Carolinas past
hits the stands. This small state possesses
a long and complicated history we long
to understand; about 2,000 clear, bite-
size entries in the new encyclopedia of-
fer that possibility. How is such a thing
built, something so important, so com-
plicated so massive?
Just add water, says Tom Downey,
managing editor from 2000 to 2004.
And add historian Walter Edgar, the
Humanities Council South Carolina, the
University of South Carolina Press,
fundraisers and donors, academics, lo-
cal historians, subject editors and writ-
ers, graduate students, photographs, il-
lustrations, maps and, of course, sev-
eral hundred years of the past.
Ask about 600 people to sum
it up in about 2,000 entries
on 1,120 pages for
next to nothing on a
deadline.
No problem.
SOUTH CAROLINA
Analyst Vicki Gibson takes a call in SLEDs
Fusion Center, an electronic hub that tracks
crime data around the state.
RICHLAND COUNTY
The county Special Response Team uses a new
bomb robot to investigate a suspicious device
of pipes and wires that were bound together.
LEXINGTON COUNTY
Duane E. Stevens is fitted with the countys new
Explosive Ordinance Device suit, or bomb suit,
as he trains with the explosive response unit.
KERSHAW COUNTY
Gene Faulkenberry, the countys emergency
management director, uses a new computer to
track Tropical Storm Ernesto.
By JOHN OCONNOR
johnoconnor@thestate.com
M
ore than $300 million has
poured into South Carolina
since the Sept. 11, 2001,
terrorist attacks to better prepare
the state, counties and towns for
terror-related events and natural
disasters.
The money, from a variety of
federal sources, already has paid
dividends, officials say. Grant dol-
lars, for example, paid for light-
weight protective masks and suits
that likely saved lives during a
2005 train crash and chemical spill
in Graniteville.
The single biggest expenditure
has gone to improve radio com-
munications between police and
fire departments, and build digital
watchdog centers to track and an-
alyze crime data at the Port of
Charleston and around the state.
The dollars have been critical
to equipping staff and raising
everyday levels of service, too, of-
ficials said.
Were safer than before, said
Chief Robert Stewart, head of the
State Law Enforcement Division,
which oversees federal Depart-
ment of Homeland Security grants.
I wont tell you were prepared for
everything. Nobody is.
Still, there are gaps is state cov-
erage, Stewart said, especially in
some rural areas.
By LINDA H. LAMB
llamb@thestate.com
Most of us were watching tele-
vision as we saw the World Trade
Center towers collapse.
Bob Schlette Jr. saw them
through his office window and
when they fell, he lost three close
friends and hundreds of acquain-
tances. The experience of Sept. 11,
2001, was different for South Car-
olinians close to the disaster sites
in New York City or at the Penta-
gon. Theres more to remember
and much more to recover from.
For New York native Schlette,
59, whose work took him to the
twin towers almost every day, there
always will be a hole in the skyline.
It really feels like somethings
missing, he said. Even when I
see the TV shows where they pan
the skyline, and (the towers)
arent there.
Schlette said the tragedy didnt
really change him but it did
change his location. It was a big
reason he and his wife, who had
vacationed in Myrtle Beach for
years, decided to move to Lexing-
ton a little more than a year ago.
He works as a surveyor for B.P.
Barber & Associates.
THE WORST AND BEST
OF HUMAN NATURE
Some people didnt want to stay
in New York City after the terror-
ist attacks of 9/11. Carrie Rachel
Dean didnt want to leave.
Dean, a Columbia High School
graduate, lived 20 blocks from the
World Trade Center.
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in 1,120 pages. Thats the breadth of the new South Carolina
Encyclopedia, debuting Sept. 29. Beginning today and continuing
all month, look for our special poster pages on subjects from the
new book South Carolina Encyclopedia Extras.
Monday: Trading
cards featuring South
Carolinas best athletes
in Sunday Sports.
Also, the first of our
weekday quizzes on
Page B3.
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more poster pages each
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f the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001,
struck us with fear and the deaths of
more than 2,700 overtook us with
sadness, then the heroic work of the first-
responders and volunteers who rushed to
ground zero filled us with pride.
Many of them died trying to save just
one more life. For those who survived,
life still hasnt returned to normal.
We knew it even then.
I can see pain in their eyes, the Rev.
Gary Benvenuti said Sept. 12, 2001. He
drove from Augusta to New York to
council firefighters. God didnt condition
us for this type of pain and sorrow.
FI LE PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE ASSOCI ATED PRESS AND MCCLATCHY-TRI BUNE
Firefighters raise a flag late in the afternoon on Sept. 11, 2001, in
the wreckage of the World Trade Center towers.
A smoke
cloud rises
after United
Flight 93
crashed in a
field in
Shanksville,
Pa., on
Sept. 11,
2001.
Rescue workers climb a mountain of debris Sept. 13, 2001. The rubble was all that remained of the twin towers.
Messages scrawled in debris dust on
Sept. 12, 2001, on a ladder truck of
Ladder Company 24 join a growing
memorial to the firefighters from the
company who lost their lives in the
terrorist attacks.
Firefighters unfurl an American flag from the roof of
the Pentagon on Sept. 12, 2001, as President Bush
visited the area damaged by the terrorist attack.
An
emergency
worker
helps a
woman
after she
was
injured
in the
terrorist
attack on
the towers.
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She coped with the stress by
throwing herself into volunteer
work, staffing a Red Cross respite
center a block north of ground
zero.
As difficult as it was, I will al-
ways feel incredibly blessed and
lucky that I was in New York City
at that time, said Dean, 34. We
saw the worst that human nature
has to offer. Immediately follow-
ing, we saw the best human na-
ture has to offer.
Early on, she was haunted by
thoughts of survivors who might
be trapped in the smoky ruins of
the skyscrapers.
Every time I closed my eyes,
I would imagine what that would
have been like, she said.
When her companys post-9/11
revenue losses put her out of a job
three months later, Dean volun-
teered full time. Later she served
as a paid consultant to some of the
victims families. Eventually, she
started her own consulting com-
pany, and now she is doing well.
Emotionally, Dean said, she
breathed a little easier after the
one-year anniversary of the at-
tacks. Nevertheless, she feels its
too soon for movies such as
World Trade Center. For her,
ever-mindful of those who suf-
fered agonizing loss, it always will
be too soon.
I cant imagine sitting in a
movie theater, eating popcorn and
watching that, she said.
CAMARADERIE . . .
GOT ME THROUGH
The gawkers at ground zero
tourists taking pictures of the
smoldering devastation that had
been the World Trade Center
were an irritating sight to New
Yorkers such as Eva van Dok.
But then, in the harrowing
weeks and months after the ter-
rorist attacks, layers of stress and
worry seemed to worsen every
problem, said van Dok, a 35-year-
old actress from Greenville who
has lived in New York since 1994.
Whatever you were going
through at the time got magnified
by 50, she said.
Already anxious by nature, van
Dok had been laid off from her
magazine job. While the disaster
put things in perspective I was
looking for work at the same time
other people were fighting for
their lives now she was jobless
and afraid.
Camaraderie with my friends
. . . got me through, said van Dok,
who separated from her husband
three months after 9/11.
Five years have calmed her
anxieties somewhat and brought
positive changes. Van Dok is act-
ing in an off-Broadway play and
has a new magazine-research job.
She has remarried, to her high
school sweetheart. But shes dis-
mayed by what she sees as politi-
cizing of the disasters.
Were more divided than ever,
and the violence seems to be in-
creasing, van Dok said.
She views statements such as
the terrorists hate our freedom
as simplistic. She worries that mil-
itary actions since 9/11 may con-
tinue the cycle of hatred.
While she stressed that shes
no al-Qaida sympathizer, she
added, It is my somewhat ideal-
istic hope that the terrorists them-
selves should be punished without
waging war on their entire race.
THE HAIR STOOD UP
ON MY NECK
George L. Johnson was more
terrified than hed been before
or ever wants to be again.
Johnson travels to Washington,
D.C., frequently as vice president
of BlueCross BlueShield of South
Carolina. News of the 9/11 attacks
interrupted a meeting he was hav-
ing with then-Rep. Lindsey Gra-
ham.
Evacuation of the Capitol was
amazingly orderly, even polite,
said Johnson, 60, of Columbia.
The scary moment came as he left
his traffic-jammed taxi to walk the
rest of the way to his Pennsylva-
nia Avenue hotel.
A crowd gathered. Everyone
looked at the sky. Their collective
gaze moved from the White
House to the Capitol and back.
They were waiting to see what
would be hit next, Johnson said.
The hair stood up on my neck at
that point and I thought, my God,
this is the United States!
Those moments seemed even
more poignant later as details
emerged about United Flight 193,
which crashed in Pennsylvania
after being diverted from its orig-
inal goal of crashing into the White
House or the Capitol.
That first night, it was hard to
sleep with the sound of F-16s
buzzing the city.
Johnson remembers sadness
and bewilderment, and being
stuck in Washington for four days
until he found a ride back to Co-
lumbia with the son of a friend of
a friend.
I JUST DIDNT WANT
TO GO HOME
Thousands of photographs and
videos were made on 9/11, but the
photo in Maj. Kent Broomes mind
is one that didnt get taken.
Blythewood native Broome,
now stationed at Shaw Air Force
Base, was working at the Penta-
gon then. His office was almost di-
rectly opposite where the terrorists
crashed a Boeing 737 into the west
side of the massive building.
Evacuated along with thou-
sands of others, Broome felt com-
pelled to return to help. I just did-
nt want to go home, he said.
Getting past security was out
of the question, so he jumped a
fence at Arlington Cemetery and
crept in that way. He recalled
walking through a section of
graves of veterans who served in
Korea or Vietnam, hes not sure
which. But there was the picture:
The stark gravestones of Ameri-
can patriots and beyond them,
smoke rising from the awful
wound in the Pentagon.
That was the image that, if Id
had a camera, I would have got-
ten, said Broome, 37.
At the Pentagon, he helped
however he could, assisting peo-
ple, clearing debris. After a long
day, he began to hitchhike back to
his Virginia home and was picked
up by a stranger who insisted on
driving him the whole 25 miles.
Back in Washington for a train-
ing session last month, Broome
visited the Iwo Jima memorial,
symbol of World War II. A Japan-
ese tourist gave him a light for his
cigar. Broome reflected that it can
take years for a wars meaning to
become clear. Perhaps, he
thought, people dont yet under-
stand the significance of 9/11 and
the current military actions in
Afghanistan and Iraq.
A lot of people are fooled into
thinking its about some great con-
quest and military might, he said.
I think people really miss the con-
text, that what were doing today
is helping to bring freedom to the
world.
AMERICA NEEDS
TO WAKE UP
Army Col. Edwin Morehead
also carries an image in his head
from that day at the Pentagon.
Morehead, 52, of Lexington,
was working at the Pentagon then
and was close to the site of the
crash. Colleagues said they heard
screams of trapped Navy person-
nel. Morehead and others, with
the building burning, literally
falling down around us, took
turns trying to get through a nar-
row space to reach them.
A young sailor in a T-shirt
rolled in water littered with bro-
ken glass, trying to cool off before
plunging back into the space.
In my mind I can still see that
young kid, crawling in that hole,
Morehead said. I dont know if
he ever came out. I never took the
time to track that kid down, but
that was one of many things that
I saw others do that were just un-
believable, in the attempt to save
others.
Morehead, now stationed at the
National Guard headquarters in
Columbia, said the other emotion
that lingers from 9/11 is anger. He
has a 25-year-old son serving in
the Army, but he said too many
people are blind to the threat of
terrorism.
American needs to wake up
and realize it didnt start on Sept.
11 ... and it didnt end on Sept.
11, he said.
What bothers me is how few
Americans are willing to serve
their country.
I WOULD HAVE BEEN
TRAPPED
In his five years of work for the
Port Authority, Schlette cant re-
member another day when the
monthly staff meeting was not
held promptly at 9 a.m., on the
74th floor of the World Trade Cen-
ters North Tower.
But on 9/11, the meeting was
switched to 9:30 a.m., which might
have saved his life.
American Airlines Flight 11
crashed into the North Tower at
8:46 a.m. Schlette was on a train
headed for the meeting, but every-
one on it was told to go back.
If not for that, I probably
would have been trapped in an el-
evator, Schlette said. Back in his
office in Jersey City, he had a
panoramic view of the towers and
the Statue of Liberty beyond.
He remembers the engineers
he worked with were already in
problem-solving mode. They were
thinking and talking about how
the towers could be repaired. No
one imagined the massive build-
ings collapsing though that
soon was the horrible sight
through Schlettes office window.
Five years have not dimmed
his view of the towers collapse.
I can still see them now, he
said.
Reach Lamb at
(803) 771-8454.
SECURITY
FIVE YEARS LATER SEPT. 11, 2001
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I was at Columbia Airport waiting to
board my flight to Jacksonville, Fla., ...
so I could fly to the Mayo Clinic for some
treatments.
The public announcement system
was saying all flights have been
canceled, all planes in the air are
ordered to immediately land at the
closest airport. ... As I walked from my
gate to the ticket counter, I remember
the stream of people behind me, men
cussing, women crying and me vowing
to rejoin the Army even though I was 68
years old.
Owens T. Cobb, Columbia

I was a freshman in college when I

walked into my second class that began
at 9:25 a.m. My professor stood in front
of a filled class and told us that
something had happened to the World
Trade Center, but no one knew exactly
what had happened. She then began
lecturing.
After class, I walked to the nearest
TV and saw what was going on, the first
building falling to the ground. ...
After 9/11, I gained more love for my
country than I ever thought possible. I
was 18 and had never experienced
something like this before.
Ashley Northington, Columbia

It was 11 days after my retirement

from federal service. We had contractors
working on the house and one of them
shouted upstairs that a plane had hit the
World Trade Center. Like many, we
assumed this an accident and, not
knowing the size of the plane, hoped the
damage was relatively minor.
We turned on the television only to
see a plane hit the second tower. Clearly
this was an act of terrorism. Our
daughter was on the telephone with her
home office, located in the towers, and
heard the last words, no, screams before
the line went dead. She lost 12 friends
and co-workers.
Janet Miller, Lexington

Sept. 11, 2001, did not start out as an
ordinary day for me, even before the attack
on the World Trade Center.
My husband and I left our home at
6:30 that morning en route for Lexington
Medical Center, where I was going to have
our second child.
We watched the whole thing unfold as
I was in labor. I remember feeling very
vulnerable being in the hospital about to
give birth and not knowing what was
going to happen next.
I was very fortunate to have a fast and
easy delivery. Savannah Grace was born at
12:23 p.m. that day, weighing 8 pounds 8
ounces. It is hard to believe that she will be
5 years old. She knows when her birthday
is but has no idea what significance it has
to the rest of the world.
Michelle Murray, Lexington

I was going to a monthly staff
meeting in the North Tower, 74th floor.
The meeting had been moved from its
normal 9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
I heard the conductor get a message to
hold the train there because of a smoke
problem. . . . After a little wait, we were
instructed to exit the train.
As I was exiting the train, I heard a
young woman say: Before we went into
the tunnel, did you see the smoke coming
out of the top of one of the towers?
After hearing that, I took the train back
to my office. . . . From my desk, I had a
perfect view of both towers and watched
them both go down. . . . Luckily, I only lost
three friends.
I consider myself lucky. If the staff
meeting had not been moved to 9:30 a.m.,
I probably would have been trapped in an
elevator when the first plane hit. I did
have a good friend who was trapped in an
elevator and escaped. One of my friends
was a PA cop who went over immediately
to help and never returned.
Bob Schlette Jr.,
Lexington
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Savannah Grace Murray, left, with her sister Shannon Murray, 7,
was born on Sept. 11, 2001.
GERRY MELENDEZ/GMELENDEZ@THESTATE.COM
New York native Bob Schlette, a survey supervisor for B.P. Barber & Associates in
Columbia, experienced Sept. 11, 2001, through his office window, where his work took
him to the World Trade Center every day. He was lucky that a meeting in one of the
towers was scheduled a half an hour later that day. I would have been in the building
if the meeting had been at 9 a.m., he said.
9/11 MEMORIAL SERVICE:
7 p.m. today. Heartland
Conference of the S.C. Synod
of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America. Sermon
by the Rev. David A. Donges;
members of Conference
Clergy will conduct service.
Mount Tabor Lutheran
Church, 816 Mount Tabor
Road, Little Mountain. (803)
945-7933.
AIRPORT HIGH SCHOOL
9/11 CEREMONY: 7:45 a.m.
Monday. Hosted by student
government, JROTC, and
chorus. Public invited. JROTC
Drill Team demonstration,
chorus musical tributes,
Freedom Flag raising. Airport
High School, 1315 Boston
Ave., West Columbia. (803)
822-6118.
LEXINGTON MEDICAL
CENTER 9/11 CEREMONY:
9 a.m. Monday. Guest
speaker Sheriff James R.
Metts. Woodmen of the
World American flag
presentation. Public invited.
Lexington Medical Center,
North Tower entrance. (803)
939-4512.
IN HONOR AND
REMEMBRANCE
WOODMEN SALUTE
AMERICAS HEROES: 10
a.m. Monday. Flag raising,
dedication of flagpoles, Dutch
Fork High School AFJROTC
Presentation of Colors,
Woodmen of the World
participation. Oak Pointe
Elementary School, 1 River
Bottom Road, Irmo. (803)
781-2848.
FREEDOM WALK: 11 a.m.
Monday. Ten-block walk
from State House to
Memorial Park to
memorialize and honor those
who lost lives 9/11. Meet at
State House, Gervais Street.
(803) 319-5615, (803) 748-
7473,
www.americasupportsyou.co
m.
SILENT PRAYER AND
MEDITATION: 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Monday. Bethlehem Lutheran
Church, Broad River Road,
Irmo. For information, call
Monday-Friday between 10
a.m. and 2 p.m. (803) 781-
3900.
COASTAL CAROLINA
UNIVERSITY 9/11
ANNIVERSARY
OBSERVANCE: 2:30 p.m.
Monday. Memories, Pentagon
pictures, eyewitness
accounts; 3:15 p.m.,
Responses, poetry of disaster,
visual arts; 4 p.m.,
Consequences, Afghanistan:
the Cameras Eye; 4:30 p.m.,
Terrorism, Globalization and
Islam, Understanding
Terrorism. Free. Edwards
College of Humanities and
Fine Arts Building, Coastal
Carolina University. (843)
349-2421.
ART AND ATROCITY:
BEARING WITNESS: 5:45-7
p.m. Monday. Lecture on
9/11, work of Nobel Prize
winner Elie Wiesel, response
of literature and art to
atrocity. Gambrell
auditorium, University of
South Carolina. Free.
jthospital@sc.edu.
PARADE AND MEMORIAL
SERVICE: 7 p.m. Monday.
Service honoring firefighters,
police, EMS, military
personnel who died. Parade
led by bagpipers and
drummers starts at
Summerton Fire Department,
to St. Matthias Episcopal
Church. Emergency
personnel be at Fire
Department at 6:15 p.m. St.
Matthias Episcopal Church,
Summerton. (803) 485-2504.
COMMEMORATION AND
PRAYER VIGIL: 7 a.m.-7 p.m.
Monday. Camden First
United Methodist Church will
be open to all who would like
to pray for families and loved
ones who died Sept. 11, 2001.
704 West Dekalb St.,
Camden. (803) 432-3101.
3 DAYS OF REVIVAL AND
REMEMBRANCE: 7 p.m.
Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday. Recognition of
all military, police, fire,
rescue and school personnel.
Please come in uniform.
Behind Food Lion on Pine
Street, Elgin. (803) 438-3660.
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Lower levels of federal spend-
ing on homeland security will
make it more difficult to prepare
those areas, he said.
The federal share sent to S.C.
went to:
Police and local governments
more than $95.4 million for
equipment and training. An addi-
tional $14.6 million is set to be dis-
tributed later this month.
Medicine and inspections
about $99 million went to the De-
partment of Health and Environ-
mental Control. That money up-
graded lab facilities, bought
vaccines, and boosted food, hos-
pital, mail and other inspections.
Fire departments about $44
million bought new communica-
tions equipment, protective gear
and vehicles.
Port security federal money
plugged gaps, including more than
$40 million for a security center at
the Port of Charleston.
Much of the money nearly a
quarter was spent to improve
communications among police, fire
and emergency medical personnel.
The inability of agencies to com-
municate was a key problem dur-
ing New York Citys response to
the terror attacks.
Both Lexington and Kershaw
counties have revamped their ra-
dio system with grants, switching
to a standard system shared by
many counties in the state.
Greenville, Laurens, Pickens and
Spartanburg counties recently
gained a federal grant to switch to
a similar system.
Money also has been used to
buy basic protective gear for all po-
lice officers across the state. Rich-
land and Lexington counties
bought specialized gear for bomb
and hazardous materials squads.
Such gear was the second-high-
est category of spending in the
SLED grant program. Specialized
trucks and vehicles were third
most common.
That has drastically improved
the safety of our systems, said
John Smith, Orangeburg Countys
emergency management director.
We were trying to build capacity.
We knew . . . the money wasnt go-
ing to keep coming in.
Distributing so much money,
Stewart said, has required organi-
zation. U.S. government audits say
South Carolinas grant system is a
model other states should follow.
In 2003, Gov. Mark Sanford
named SLED the lead state agency
for coordinating federal grants.
Stewart said the first step was to
call together police, fire and emer-
gency management systems to
identify needs. A committee made
an early key policy decision.
Every jurisdiction cant have
everything, Stewart said, but
every jurisdiction must have quick
access to everything.
The committee decided every
county with at least 100,000 peo-
ple 14 in the state would get
a basic hazardous materials team.
Four better-equipped teams are
stationed in Charleston, Greenville,
Horry and Richland counties.
The grant committee chose a
similar strategy with regionally
placed units to respond to bombs
or chemical or radiation attacks.
That strategy streamlined main-
tenance costs. That has become
more important as the federal gov-
ernment has shifted grants to
states judged to be at higher risk
of attack. However, many counties
have been left without special re-
sponse units of their own.
It is a risk Smith said Orange-
burg County can live with.
I may not have a team in my
county, but Ive got four of them
around me, he said.
Sanford said the system has not
been perfect, but putting SLED in
charge has eliminated rivalry from
local groups over the money.
With the states budget history
of spreading marbles across the
state, Sanford said, SLEDs sys-
tem has concentrated the marbles
where they can provide the most
benefit. The new gear has not been
mothballed by South Carolina
agencies.
An anthrax scare in Myrtle
Beach in 2002; the discovery of
poisonous ricin in Greenville in
2003; the Graniteville train crash
last year; and numerous hurricane
threats have forced state and local
departments to hone their plans
and training.
Cooperation, Stewart said, is
key to keeping the state safe.
Weve had the drug war, the
crime war, all kinds of war, Stew-
art said. Theres never been any-
thing that required as many disci-
plines be involved as the war on
terrorism.
Reach OConnor
at (803) 771-8358.
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KERSHAW
COUNTY
The county received
$469,348.33 between 2003 and
2006 from the Office of Homeland
Security.
A committee with representatives
from departments and
organizations in the county
determined what was needed.
Following is a sampling of
purchases:
$114,235: Mobile command
vehicle, outfitted for any
disaster, including a weapons of
mass destruction incident
$42,079.06: Computers,
printers and software
$56,971: Thermal cameras,
which can be used in the dark
and show varying degrees of
temperature
$26,733.45: Radio equipment
that can be used in a biohazard
suit and is voice-activated
$21,910: Bulletproof vests
Among organizations benefiting
from purchases: Kershaw County
Sheriffs Office, Camden Fire
Department, Lugoff Fire
Department, Emergency
Organization Center, Mobile
Command Post, Camden Police
Department, Elgin Police
Department, Kershaw County
Coroners Office, Kershaw County
Fire Services and Bethune Police
Department
What theyre saying: Kershaw
County Sheriff Steve McCaskill
said that before his office received
Homeland Security funding, his
officers had to rotate six World
War II gas masks between shifts.
Now, each officer has his own
protective equipment, and they
can get into in a moments notice
and be protected.
Marjorie Riddle
LEXINGTON
COUNTY
The county has received at least
$1.5 million in federal funds for
homeland security, according to
federal, state and local authorities.
The bulk of the federal money
has been channeled through the
State Law Enforcement Division.
But the county also has gotten
federal money in separate funding
for biological and environmental
disasters.
The state environmental agency
said it could not immediately
determine Lexingtons portion of
$3.7 million distributed in a seven-
county region.
Heres a breakdown of some
of Lexington Countys funds:
The largest share: County law
enforcement received $717,000
through SLED in the past three
fiscal years.
What they are getting:
Everything from barricades and
traffic cones to big-ticket items
including $100,000 for a mobile
command post and $99,000 for a
remote-controlled bomb robot.
The second-largest share:
Firefighters received $450,000.
What they are getting:
Equipment ranging from $800
for 800 megahertz radio charges
to $105,000 for nine thermal
imaging cameras that see at
night or through smoke or fog.
Who else benefited?
Emergency preparedness
office about $45,500
Ambulance service about
$44,000
911 telephone center about
$9,500
Clif LeBlanc
9/11: Robert De Niro hosts an updating of
filmmakers Jules and Gedeon Naudets award-
winning program chronicling a New York
firehouses actions on the morning of Sept. 11. In
new interviews, firefighters discuss how their
lives, families and the world have changed in the
five years since the destruction of the World
Trade Center. 8 tonight, WLTX-19, cable
channel 9
The Path to 9/11: A dramatization based on
the 9/11 Commissions report. It demonstrates how
the seeds of the attacks on New York and
Washington were planted in the 1993 World Trade
Center bombing, as well as subsequent bombings
of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and
of the USS Cole in Yemen. It puts forth the
argument that the attacks might have been averted
had it not been for a systemic failure to act by
government authorities. 8 tonight and 8 p.m.
Monday WOLO-25, cable channel 5
Brothers Lost: Stories of 9/11: This
documentary features interviews with 31 men who
offer reflections on the nature of brotherhood, as
they recall their siblings who died on 9/11. 7 p.m.
Monday, Cinemax, cable channel 220
America Rebuilds II: Return to Ground Zero:
The second in a trilogy of documentaries about the
efforts to rebuild ground zero. Actress Mariska
Hargitay narrates. 9 p.m. Monday, WRLK-35,
cable channel 11
Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero: The repeat
airing of this Frontline news program grapples
with the questions of religion and faith through the
reflections of a variety of people from survivors to
the widow of a firefighter; from priests and rabbis
to security guards and opera divas; from Christians
and Jews to Buddhists, Muslims and atheists. The
documentary explores questions of good and evil,
Gods power in the face of malevolence and the
potential for darkness within religion itself. 10
p.m. Monday, WRLK-35, cable channel 11
HOW COUNTIES
SPENT MONEY
New incident response
vehicles and communication
devices were homeland
security spending priorities in
three Columbia-area counties
over the past three years.
Lexington
$473,690 to improve inter-
agency communications
$282,091 for special-
purpose vehicles, such as
armored trucks and equipment
$189,000 for equipment to
detect chemical and biological
hazards
Richland
$802,674 to improve inter-
agency communications
$493,621 for special-
purpose vehicles
$482,502 for bomb-removal
equipment
Kershaw
$134,000 for special-
purpose vehicles
$103,877 to improve inter-
agency communications
$50,894 for bomb-removal
equipment
WHO GOT DOLLARS
Greenville, the states largest
county, received the most
money at more than $2.9
million.
Richland, the second largest
county by population, gained
the next largest amount at
more than $2.8 million.
Lexington, the states fifth
largest county, took in $1.53
million, the eighth largest
amount. It was behind
Charleston, Horry, Spartanburg,
Anderson and York counties.
Kershaw County got more
than $469,000 in money, the
23rd largest amount. It is the
also the states 23rd largest
county.
SOURCE: State Emergency Management Division
UPCOMING TV SHOWS RELATING TO THE SEPT. 11 TERRORIST ATTACKS
WHERE THE
MONEY WENT
More than $95.4 million was spent in
South Carolina on programs and
equipment from 2003 to 2005. The largest
share of money went to improve
communication among agencies.
Interagency communications
$22.3 23.4%
Training, exercises and planning
$14.9 15.6%
Detection and incident-
prevention equipment
$10.4 10.9%
Personal protective equipment
$10.1 10.6%
Incident response vehicles
$7.8 8.3%
Bomb-removal and
decontamination equipment
$5.5 5.7%
Security enhancements
$5.3 5.6%
Other*
$19.1 19.9%
Expense
(in millions)
Percentage
of total spent
* Category includes other equipment, information
technology, medical supplies, agricultural terrorism
prevention and response watercraft.
SOURCE: State Law Enforcement Division
ROB BARGE/THE STATE
RICHLAND
COUNTY
The county has received at least
$3.2 million in federal money for
homeland security.
The bulk of the money, $2.5
million, came through the State Law
Enforcement Division and passed
through the Richland County
Sheriffs Department. That
department doles out the majority of
the money for other fire, police and
emergency services in the county.
SLED also gave nearly $600,000
not received by the Sheriffs
Department to other agencies
within Richland County
government. Many of the items,
though terrorism-related, can be
used for normal emergency activity.
Here is a look at what the
agencies have received or bought
in the last three fiscal years:
$493,621: Incident response
vehicles
$482,502: Explosive device
equipment
$230,361: Personal protective
gear
$25,200: Information
technology
$9,605: Decontamination
equipment
Agencies that received
money were:
Columbia Fire and Rescue
Columbia Police Department
Columbia Bomb Team
Forest Acres Police Department
University of South Carolina
Police
Columbia College Police
Eastover Police Department
Richland County Coroners
Office
Richland County Emergency
Services
Joy L. Woodson
TIM DOMINICK/TDOMINICK@THESTATE.COM
Maj. George Brothers demonstrates a chemical suit mask that has an LED warning system for the air tank. It is
one of the items Lexington County purchased with money from the Department of Homeland Security.
At Lexington
County Airport
in Pelion, Maj.
George
Brothers,
Duane E.
Stevens Jr., and
James Kaiser
familiarize
themselves
with a robot
that can be
operated
remotely for
bomb removal
and hostage
negotiation.
FILE PHOTOGRAPH/THE STATE
By BERTRAM RANTIN
brantin@thestate.com
As Clifton Satterwhite
watched on television as the sec-
ond of two planes crashed into
the World Trade Center, he had
a revelation.
Something said (to me),
Youre going to be called in,
he said.
Satterwhite had
every reason to suspect
as much. As director of
the disaster relief group
of the South Carolina
Baptist Convention, Sat-
terwhite had trained for
such a situation, all the
time praying one would
never come.
But when it did, Mid-
lands residents were
there to lend their
hands, hearts and ears. Satter-
white led a local disaster relief
response team that traveled to
New York in the days and weeks
after the attacks to counsel vic-
tims and rescue workers.
By GREG GORDON
McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON Tony Sanse-
viro stared in shock as his buddy
and fellow firefighter, Danny
Suhr, was struck and killed by a
body falling from the World Trade
Centers burning North Tower on
Sept. 11. Now Sanseviro struggles
with survivors guilt.
Sharon Ambrose lost
one of her two sons in
1999. Then the other,
Paul, was aboard Amer-
ican Airlines Flight 77
when hijackers slammed
the airliner into the Pen-
tagon. When she visits
her sons graves, she
said, I have the over-
whelming urge to lay
down between them.
Wendy Cosgrove
lives with the haunting memo-
ries of her husband Kevins
plaintive cries for help over a cell
phone from the hot and smoky
105th floor of the North Tower,
moments before it collapsed.
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Sunday: Has Homeland
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South Carolina safer?
Today: Catching up
with the volunteers who
toiled at ground zero
Tuesday: How our
lives have changed
since 9/11
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S.C.s 9/11
eyewitnesses in
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AFGHANISTAN
FIVE YEARS LATER SEPT. 11, 2001
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n the months following the 9/11
terrorist attacks as America
prepared to go to war against
Afghanistan men and women
across the country sacrificed family
life and career to join the armed
services.
They made countless acts of
heroism and selflessness.
And many of them will not
return home.
In South Carolina alone, eight
troops with ties to our state have
died in Afghanistan: Army Reserve
Sgt. Edward R. Heselton; Air Force
Staff Sgt. Jason Hicks; S.C.
National Guard Sgt. Stephen High;
Army Sgt. Michael R. Lehmiller;
Marine Capt. Daniel McCollum;
Army Maj. Edward Murphy; Army
Staff Sgt. Tony B. Olaes; and S.C.
National Guard Spc. Chrystal Stout.
For a tribute to South Carolinas
war dead, go to thestate.com.
FILE PHOTOGRAPHS BY MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
U.S. Marines from the 26th Expedition Unit stand guard as the sun sets over Kandahar International Airport on Dec. 18, 2001.
Marines on a light armored vehicle patrol the U.S. Marine
Corps Base in Kandahar on Dec. 28, 2001, as a Super Cobra
helicopter flies overhead.
U.S. Marine light armored vehicles patrol the desert surrounding Kandahar Airport on Dec. 27, 2001.
President Bush speaks
with Canadas Prime
Minister Jean Chretien
on Oct. 7, 2001, one of
several world leaders he
spoke to before telling
the nation of airstrikes
against the Taliban.
A U.S. B-52
bomber flies
over the front
line of
Malawa,
Afghanistan,
during an
assault on the
al Qaida
stronghold of
Tora Bora on
Dec. 7, 2001.
Lance Cpl. Chris Cassa, of Westford, Mass., positions his weapon for the evening watch
at the U.S. Marine Corps Base in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Dec. 28, 2001.
She said her son has since run afoul of the
law and her teenage daughter has mutilated
herself.
Testimony from Sanseviro, Ambrose, Cos-
grove and more than 40 other surviving friends
and relatives at last springs trial of confessed
al Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui of-
fered an extraordinary glimpse of the long-term,
life-altering effects of the terror attacks that
killed 2,972 people.
While some survivors said they have found
ways to move on, others remain emotionally
paralyzed.
Thomas Demaria, a clinical psychologist
who set up the World Trade Center Family Cen-
ter on Long Island, N.Y., said many 9/11 fami-
lies have been unable to experience the normal
two- to three-year cycles of grief: shock and
anger, then confusion and depression and, fi-
nally, resolution.
He pointed to the recurring images of the
attacks on television and, now, in movies.
We found that people were almost sus-
pended in the initial, most painful part of grief,
the coming-to-grips with this tremendous
tragedy, he said. It was prolonged because of
the nature of the exposure people had. They re-
ally couldnt get away from it.
Demaria said the center has provided ther-
apy and grief counseling to about 2,000 family
members of those killed. Its staff also has coun-
seled some 3,500 emergency responders and
their families who are dealing with both grief
and a new fear: that another wave of deaths
will strike fire and rescue crews who breathed
asbestos and other toxins while searching the
smoldering wreckage.
About 600 to 700 family members still visit
the center every month a figure that has
risen recently because the fifth anniversary of
the attacks has rekindled emotions, Demaria
said. He said some are seeking treatment for
the first time.
Research has indicated grief can lead to ill-
ness, even death, and loss of a parent at an early
age can profoundly affect child development.
Mike Low of Batesville, Ark., recalled that,
since the death of his 28-year-old daughter,
Sarah, an American Airlines flight attendant,
his wife, Bobbie, has been in total withdrawal,
refusing to have any contact with family or
friends.
YOU KIND OF LOSE
YOUR WILL TO LIVE
Sanseviro said his close friend Suhr lived
for his wife, Nancy, and their 4-year-old daugh-
ter, Briana. But on the morning of 9/11, Suhr
didnt hesitate to drive a contingent from En-
gine Company 216 to the Trade Center.
When they arrived and headed for the tower,
Sanseviro said, bodies were plunging to the
street from the upper floors. Suddenly, one
came in like a missile and killed him.
Sanseviro, who refused to be interviewed for
this story, testified that he has struggled since
then. He said he and six other firefighters who
wound up attending to Suhr, instead of helping
in the tower, are alive because of Danny.
Last year, at age 37, he retired from the fire
department after being diagnosed with chronic
post-traumatic stress disorder.
Youre alive and everybody else is dead,
Sanseviro said. You kind of lose your will to
live.
Ambroses son Paul was a senior clinical ad-
viser to then-U.S. Surgeon General David
Satcher and was focused on delivering health
care and immunizations to the poor when he
died at age 32.
It just makes you question everything, said
his mother, of Huntington, W.Va.
Cosgrove, of West Islip, N.Y., said she met
her husband when she was a waitress in 1980.
I said, What would you like, sir? He said,
You. They married a few months later.
Kevin Cosgrove worked for Aon Corp., a
reinsurance company, on the 99th floor of the
North Tower. A tape recording of his last, des-
perate phone call for help, shortly before the
tower collapsed, was played at the trial.
He left behind his wife, 12-year-old son, Brian,
and daughters, Claire, 9, and Elizabeth, 4.
I dont think Ill ever learn how to deal with
or get over the fact that Im a widow, Cosgrove
said.
Our job there was to listen to peo-
ples stories, Satterwhite said of the lo-
cal team of hospital and police chaplains,
pastors and other support staff. We
were not there to win converts. We were
there to be a presence somebody to
say, Im sorry.
Just months earlier, many in the
group had taken part in a national vic-
tims assistance training conference in
Pickens County. The conference focused
on crisis counseling and intervention.
We had just trained 42 people for a
week, Satterwhite said, adding he had
no idea at the time
when they would
use that training.
Those answers
would come in the
weeks after the at-
tacks as Satter-
white and other
members of the cri-
sis team sat with,
listened to and
prayed alongside
those who had
been injured or who lost family mem-
bers or friends.
Much of the groups time was spent
talking with rescue workers at ground
zero.
Sometimes they would find a body
or just a helmet, Satterwhite said.
He recalls time spent at the Com-
passion Center in the city, where many
had brought in DNA samples to match
with victims.
Ill never get out of my mind ever,
just walls and walls (filled with signs) of
missing people, he said. Everywhere
you looked, you saw a picture of a miss-
ing person or you talked to someone
who had a family member or a friend
who had been lost.
The S.C. Baptist Convention team in-
cluded volunteers from across the state.
Among them were Paul Hamilton, head
chaplain at The Regional Center of Or-
angeburg and Calhoun Counties, and
Zane Brown, director of missions for the
Colleton Baptist Association.
Our job was just to engage them in
conversations and let them tell the sto-
ries what they remember seeing, hear-
ing, smelling, feeling, said Brown, who
spent a second week working directly
with Port Authority police officers, who
lost 13 of their co-workers.
They were having a tough time,
Brown said. Some of them had not seen
their families in a long time. We prayed
with them. We encouraged them.
Since returning to Columbia, mem-
bers of the Baptist Convention team have
met to share and talk about their expe-
riences.
Theyre continually telling their sto-
ries, Satterwhite said of the volunteers.
And while that has offered a measure
of healing, Satterwhite said its impor-
tant not to dwell on the past.
You want to build on your future be-
cause you just never know when the
next one is going to be, and you always
have to be prepared.
OTHERS WENT TO HELP
Midlands volunteer response to the
9/11 crisis went beyond the S.C. Baptist
Convention.
The Red Cross sent volunteers in-
cluding Bill Bartlett of Columbia, while
Fred McCurdy and Michael Finch were
part of a team of S.C. coroners who trav-
eled to New York to assist in identifying
and embalming victims.
Red Cross employee Rhe Adams,
who lives in Irmo, spent three months
in New York as a case worker. Her job
was to help victims get back on their feet
in many cases finding new jobs or lo-
cating new places to live.
Each morning I arrived at the ser-
vice center to be greeted by hundreds of
people who had waited all night in the
cold to get relief, Adams said. As I
walked by them each morning, I saw the
pain and the struggle in their eyes.
Many from the Midlands business
community also donated their time and
resources. Some traveled to New York
to help; others sent supplies.
Satterwhite said that while the daily
showers in makeshift trailers and meals
at mass kitchens were outside his norm,
it didnt compare to the inconvenience
suffered by those directly affected by the
attacks.
Ill never forget those days we spent
in New York, he said. You come back
from one of those trips and you appre-
ciate everything you have.
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COMPASSION
FIVE YEARS LATER SEPT. 11, 2001
Tonights TV shows relating to the
Sept. 11 terrorist attacks
Brothers Lost: Stories of 9/11
Documentary features interviews with
31 men who offer reflections on the
nature of brotherhood, as they recall
their siblings who died on 9/11.
7 p.m., Cinemax, cable channel 220
The Path to 9/11
The second part of a dramatization
based on the 9/11 Commissions
report. The movie demonstrates how
the seeds of the attacks on New York
and Washington were planted in the
1993 World Trade Center bombing,
as well as subsequent bombings of
the U.S. embassies in Kenya and
Tanzania and of the USS Cole in
Yemen. It also puts forth the
argument the attacks might have
been averted had it not been for a
systemic failure to act on the part of
government authorities.
8 p.m., WOLO-25, cable channel 5
America Rebuilds II:
Return to Ground Zero
The second in a trilogy of
documentaries about the efforts to
rebuild ground zero. Actress Mariska
Hargitay narrates. 9 p.m., WRLK-
35, cable channel 11
Faith and Doubt
at Ground Zero
The repeat airing of this Frontline
program grapples with the questions
of religion and faith through the
reflections of a variety of people
from survivors to the widow of a
firefighter; from priests and rabbis to
security guards and opera divas;
from Christians and Jews to
Buddhists, Muslims and atheists.
10 p.m. Monday, WRLK-35, cable
channel 11
AIRPORT HIGH SCHOOL 9/11
CEREMONY: 7:45 a.m. today. Hosted by
student government, JROTC, and
chorus. Public invited. JROTC Drill
Team demonstration, chorus musical
tributes, Freedom Flag raising. Airport
High School, 1315 Boston Ave., West
Columbia. (803) 822-6118.
LEXINGTON MEDICAL CENTER 9/11
CEREMONY: 9 a.m. today. Guest
speaker Sheriff James R. Metts.
Woodmen of the World American flag
presentation. Public invited. Lexington
Medical Center, North Tower entrance.
(803) 939-4512.
IN HONOR AND REMEMBRANCE
WOODMEN SALUTE AMERICAS
HEROES: 10 a.m. today. Flag raising,
dedication of flagpoles, Dutch Fork High
School AFJROTC Presentation of Colors,
Woodmen of the World participation.
Oak Pointe Elementary School, 1 River
Bottom Road, Irmo. (803) 781-2848.
FREEDOM WALK: 11 a.m. today. Ten-
block walk from State House to Memorial
Park to memorialize and honor those who
lost lives 9/11. Meet at State House,
Gervais Street. (803) 319-5615, (803) 748-
7473, www.americasupportsyou.com.
SILENT PRAYER AND MEDITATION: 11
a.m.-1 p.m. today. Bethlehem Lutheran
Church, Broad River Road, Irmo. For
information, call today-Friday between
10 a.m. and 2 p.m. (803) 781-3900.
COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY
9/11 ANNIVERSARY OBSERVANCE:
2:30 p.m. today. Memories, Pentagon
pictures, eyewitness accounts; 3:15 p.m.,
Responses, poetry of disaster, visual
arts; 4 p.m. Consequences, Afghanistan:
the Cameras Eye; 4:30 p.m.,
Terrorism, Globalization and Islam,
Understanding Terrorism. Free.
Edwards College of Humanities and Fine
Arts Building, Coastal Carolina
University. (843) 349-2421.
ART AND ATROCITY: BEARING
WITNESS: 5:45-7 p.m. today. Lecture
discusses 9/11, work of Nobel Prize
winner Elie Wiesel, response of
literature and art to atrocity. Gambrell
auditorium, University of South
Carolina. Free. jthospital@sc.edu.
PARADE AND MEMORIAL SERVICE:
7 p.m. today. Service honoring
firefighters, police, EMS, military
personnel who died. Parade led by
bagpipers and drummers starts at
Summerton Fire Department, to St.
Matthias Episcopal Church. Emergency
personnel be at Fire Department at 6:15
p.m. St. Matthias Episcopal Church,
Summerton. (803) 485-2504.
COMMEMORATION AND PRAYER
VIGIL: 7 a.m.-7 p.m. today. Camden First
United Methodist Church will be open to
all who would like to pray for families and
loved ones who died Sept. 11, 2001. 704
West Dekalb St., Camden. (803) 432-3101.
3 DAYS OF REVIVAL AND
REMEMBRANCE: 7 p.m. today,
Tuesday, Wednesday. Recognition of all
military, police, fire, rescue and school
personnel. Please come in uniform.
Behind Food Lion on Pine Street, Elgin.
(803) 438-3660.
LOCAL EVENTS
ON TELEVISION
In January 2004, I was boarding a
military flight to Kuwait. I was back in
uniform, having been recalled from the
Individual Ready Reserve.
I would spend the rest of the year
working at the seaport in Kuwait,
helping move vehicles and equipment
bound for Iraq and beyond on and off
military sealift ships.
It is impossible for me not to tie
Sept. 11 and my recall to active duty
together. One would not have
happened without the other.
I am not upset about being recalled.
It was part of my military obligation
and I was proud to serve my country
when they needed me the most.
Rob Doering, Columbia

While waiting my turn to crawl
into a hole in the Pentagons C Ring
attempting to rescue trapped Navy
personnel, I watched as a young sailor
with only a T-shirt on for protection
crawled out of the hole created by the
nose of American Airlines Flight 77,
rolled in the broken glass, metal and
water from broken water lines, soaking
himself in an attempt to cool off from
the flames fueled by thousands of
gallons of jet fuel.
Before any of us could react, he
was on his feet, grabbed two fire
extinguishers and crawled back into
the hole spraying the flames trying to
get to his trapped comrades.
This was only one example of
Americas greatest displayed that day:
the young who choose to serve their
country even in time of war, and are
willing to sacrifice all for its citizens.
Col. Edwin C. Morehead, Columbia

Sept. 11, 2001, for this NYS
emergency medical technician began
like many prior work days. ... Our
ambulance, on standby at Seagirt
Boulevard, faced the Twin Towers.
My partner, Tia, looked at me, and
said, Im scared. I right away went
into survivor mode. I knew that our
help would be needed. Falling apart
would not do anyone any good.
New York City streets became a
sea of first responders from near and
far.
I would like to dedicate my
comment to my former supervisor,
Mark Schwartz, who lost his life doing
what he loved to do on Sept. 11, 2001.
Linda Hankins, Columbia

I am commemorating the fifth
anniversary of 9/11 by making a
duplicate of a small quilt for Gov.
Pataki of New York.
The first one I made was sent to
the family of a New York City fireman.
The back was signed by 75 state
employees of the S.C. State Hospital.
I met Gov. Pataki on Aug. 5 at
White Knoll Middle School. I showed
him my copy of the quilt, and he liked
it. I feel honored to be making a quilt
for the governor. Listening to the
speeches at White Knoll Middle School
gave some closure to this event.
Stephanie North, Cayce

As I watched my boss of three
years from the American Red Cross
walk away and leave me stranded in
Charlotte Douglas Airport in early
November of 2001, I thought to myself,
What am I doing here? and I cant
believe I am about to board a plane to
NYC all by myself to go and work on a
disaster relief assignment after 9/11. ...
I was shuttled from Newark to the
Empire Hotel near Lincoln Center in
Lower Manhattan, my home for the
next three months. ... I would be
stationed at the Service Center in SoHo
near the World Trade Center. I also
learned that while in public I was not
allowed to wear anything that said I
worked for the American Red Cross,
not even my name badge, so I wouldnt
be harmed on the street because
someone wanted aid.
Each morning I arrived at the
service center to be greeted by
hundreds of people who had waited all
night in the cold to get relief. As I
walked by them each morning I saw
the pain and the struggle in their eyes.
... I was used [later on an outreach
team] to interpret for the deaf
population of New York, many of
whom had worked in the World Trade
Center and surrounding areas. ...
During my time in NYC, I learned
... disasters affect all cultures in
different ways; friends are everywhere,
and going to NYC gave me a new
found sense of whom I am and what I
love to do.
Rhe Adams, Irmo
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readers, please go to
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HOW WE HELPED | On Sept. 11, 2001, and beyond, South Carolinians stood up to help the victims of the terrorist attacks:
Stephanie North made this
commemorative quilt.
VICTIMS
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COURTESY OF THE S.C. BAPTIST CONVENTION
John Scherberger, center, a disaster relief chaplain with the S.C.
Baptist Convention, talks with a New York resident who is wearing a
photograph of a man missing after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
Kevin Cosgrove with his children
Paul Ambrose with his fiancee
Danny Suhr with his wife and daughter
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By CAROLYN CLICK
cclick@thestate.com
We waved more flags, held more
hands, and certainly prayed more
in the days following Sept. 11, 2001.
We vowed, on more than one
occasion, to be more united as
Americans, to be as e pluribus
unum out of many, one as
we could possibly be.
But five years later, were those
lessons truly absorbed into our
national psyche?
NO TROUBLE WITH
PATRIOTISM
Veterans sought each other out
after 9/11 to be together and won-
der how that could happen to us,
said Tom Rabern, commander of
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 641
on Beltline Boulevard. The post
has 936 members, including 640
with lifetime memberships.
Rabern remembers the metal-
lic flag decals on cars and the
flags that fluttered as Americans
By JEFF WILKINSON
jwilkinson@thestate.com
A Columbia development partnership is offering 10
town houses in Arsenal Hill at cost to low-income
neighborhood residents.
At a news conference today, the group will challenge
other developers profiting from downtowns building
boom to adopt similar projects.
The whole purpose of this program is to help the peo-
ple that need the
housing get the
housing, said de-
veloper Brian
Boyer, who also is
a member of the
Columbia Afford-
able Housing Task
Force. Were ask-
ing other develop-
ers and home
builders to step up.
Civic Partners
LLC is offering the
two-bedroom, 2-
bath town houses
at Wayne and Rich-
land streets, not far
from the Gover-
nors Mansion, for
about $96,000.
They will be offered
first to Arsenal Hill
public housing res-
idents, then to the
remainder of the
residents of the pre-
dominantly black neighborhood who qualify for the citys
low-income loan program.
That program is open to residents who make 80 per-
cent of the areas median household income. That
amounts to about $48,500 or less for a family of four or
$25,000 or less for someone who is single.
By JOY L. WOODSON
jwoodson@thestate.com
It happens every day on Wade Kelly Road the dust,
the rocks, the potholes.
The unpaved road in Blythewood has caused car prob-
lems, accidents and inconveniences, residents say. Chil-
dren cant safely ride bicycles down the bumpy road, and
at least one school bus slid into a ditch.
That road was supposed to be paved a long time
ago, said Andrea Hughlett, who has lived on Wade Kelly
Road since 1998. I just feel that theyre blowing a lot of
hot air.
Residents received letters two years ago saying the
road would be fixed this summer under Richland Countys
road paving program. But the road, along with dozens
more, will not be paved this year.
By NOELLE PHILLIPS
nophillips@thestate.com
CPL. DAVID WEIMORTZ
The name should be printed big
and bold because it is how friends
and family described the man they
bid farewell to Monday.
Friends who delivered Weimortzs
eulogy described him as mischievous,
funny, competitive, wild and irrever-
ent.
He sometimes took things too far
just for the sake of taking things too
far, said friend Myles Solomon, who
also called Weimortz my most im-
portant friend.
Weimortz was killed by a roadside
bomb in Iraq last month, six days be-
fore his 29th birthday. The 41st ser-
vice member with S.C. ties to die in
Iraq, he was on his third tour with the
U.S. Marine Corps.
A horse-drawn carriage delivered
Weimortzs casket to Riverland Hills
Baptist Church just before 11 a.m. as
his family walked behind it. Marine
Corps pall bearers carried the casket
into the sanctuary where nearly 900
gathered to laugh over stories about
Weimortz and then cry because they
have an ending.
Three friends and a childhood
By TERENCE HUNT
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON Five years after the worst ter-
ror attack in U.S. history, President Bush said Mon-
day night the war against terrorism is the calling
of our generation and urged Americans to put
aside differences and fight to victory.
America did not ask for this war, and every
American wishes it were over,
Bush said. The war is not
over and it will not be over
until either we or the extrem-
ists emerge victorious.
Bush, in a prime time ad-
dress from the Oval Office,
staunchly defended the war in
Iraq even though he acknowl-
edged that Saddam Hussein was not responsible
for the 9/11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.
He said Saddams regime, while lacking
weapons of mass destruction, was a clear threat
that posed a risk the world could not afford to
take. At least 2,600 U.S. servicemen and women
have died in Iraq.
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RECOVERING
SEPT. 11, 2001
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A caisson Monday bears the body of Cpl. David Weimortz of Irmo who joined the Marines 18 months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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INSIDE
Key differences in
our daily lives, Page A3
Celebrating the he-
roes of the war in Iraq
in photos, Page A5
Somber ceremonies
marked the day, Page A6
Companies ensure
operations can continue
after a disaster, Page B6
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Honoring South
Carolinas war dead
S.C.s 9/11 eye-
witnesses
A struggle for civilization
SEE FUNERAL PAGE A4
SEE LESSONS PAGE A4
He was my brother ... my hero
Bush declares the war
on terrorism the calling
of our generation
SEE BUSH PAGE A6
SEE HOUSING PAGE A12
Some lessons are still with us
Richlands rules
for paving roads
may get retread
Partnership hopes Arsenal Hill plan
will create more affordable housing
Town
homes
offered
to poor
Friends, family
remember Marine who
died in Iraq bombing
NEW YORK CITY
Patricia Smith holds her
fathers hand as
victims names,
including that of her
mother, police officer
Moira Smith, are read.
THE FACES OF REMEMBRANCE
BUILDINGOURCITY
THE PENTAGON
First responders salute
from atop the flag-
draped Pentagon during
Mondays ceremony
honoring the 184 lives
lost in the 9/11 attack.
SHANKSVILLE, PA.
Jody Greene, 11,
daughter of a Flight 93
passenger, places a
teddy bear at the
temporary memorial to
victims of the crash.
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
PROJECT
Two Columbia businessmen
are offering 10 town houses at
cost as an Arsenal Hill housing
initiative.
Elmwood Ave.
Calhoun St.
Richland St.
Hampton St.
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Today
How our lives
have changed
since 9/11.
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interview as published at iFilm (caution: adult content).
For many, the initial
intensity of unity,
spirituality has
faded over time
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By JIM DuPLESSIS
jduplessis@thestate.com
On Sept. 11, 2001, Dale and
Ann Hampton got a call from their
daughter, who was at her Army
base in Korea. That same morn-
ing, Mills Bigham was a sopho-
more in high school, and the days
curriculum switched to watching
atrocities unfold on television.
Three years after 9/11, the
Hamptons daughter, Capt. Kim-
berly Hampton, would be dead in
Iraq at age 27, and Bigham would
be headed to Parris Island for Ma-
rine Corps basic training and
eventually to Iraq.
On Monday, Bigham, 20,
watched from the audience at the
State Museum as the Hamptons
handed over one of their daugh-
ters uniforms for a traveling ex-
hibit to honor the memories of
South Carolinians who have
served overseas since the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks. The exhibit con-
sists of panels and an electronic
kiosk that show photographs, e-
mail and other items.
By knowing our history, we
can know not to repeat things that
were bad, and repeat things that
were good, said U.S. Rep. Joe
Wilson, R-Springdale, who spoke
at Mondays event.
The exhibit will tour the state
for the next six months as part of
the South Carolina Confederate
Relic Room and Military Mu-
seums Write from the Front pro-
gram.
The Hamptons recalled the
Sept. 11, 2001, call from Kimberly
from her post in Korea.
I understood from her voice
she understood the gravity of what
was happening, Dale Hampton
said. They were all ready to go
wherever.
Capt. Hampton was piloting an
observation helicopter in Iraqs An-
bar province on Jan. 2, 2004, when
it crashed after being hit by ground
fire. She was the first woman U.S.
military pilot killed in combat, and
the 492nd member of the U.S. mil-
itary killed in combat in Iraq a
toll that stood at 2,127 Monday.
Six months after her death, the
Hamptons visited the site where
the World Trade Center had stood.
Dale Hampton said it felt eerie to
be at the place where events be-
gan that led to the death of the
couples only child.
It gave us a sense of connec-
tion with all who died there, he
said. We didnt feel alone. We
knew we were part of a family.
Bigham, who graduated from A.C.
Flora High School, said he felt a de-
sire to help after 9/11, but his decision
to join the Marines was prompted by
Clemson Universitys rejection of his
application for admission.
Bigham went to Iraq in De-
cember 2005. Three soldiers from
his battalion died in combat dur-
ing his two months in Anbar
province. He is scheduled to return
to Iraq next March.
Bighams Marine enlistment
ends in October 2008, but he hopes
to get out early and enroll at USC.
Reach DuPlessis at (803) 771-8305.
pastor gave tributes. The friends
told stories about Weimortz teas-
ing teachers at Irmo Elementary
School, cheering for the USC
Gamecocks and knocking balls
around golf courses.
In early August, Solomon and
Weimortz talked about their up-
coming 29th birthdays and specu-
lating what it would be like to get
old.
He said, I have the body of an
18-year-old but the mind of a 4-
year-old golden retriever,
Solomon said.
As Solomon spoke, pictures of
Weimortz flashed onto the sanc-
tuary wall. The crowd giggled
about the 1980s-style shorts and
sagging tube socks in his boyhood
basketball photos, a teenage face
slathered in shaving cream and his
silly dance poses from friends
weddings.
See how you were laughing
right there? Thats how Dave
wanted yall to remember him,
Solomon said. I ask that when
you think of him, laugh out loud
at least once because if he were
there, thats what he would try to
get you to do.
Another childhood friend, Eliz-
abeth Gantt Perla shared e-mails
she received from Weimortz when
he was in Iraq:
Everyone, I am going on a
mission tomorrow. Its called Op-
eration Great Looking. Naturally,
I will be heading it up. We will
have our weapons, hair gel, pocket
mirrors and saucy attitudes.
She also read Weimortzs e-
mail about mistakenly using the
Iraqi equivalent of Raid instead of
insect repellent meant for human
skin.
From head to ankle, my 6 5/230
lbsbody was marinated in a chem-
ical so strong Saddam could have
used it to gas the Kurds! I get ner-
vous when I see Marines light up
cigarettes anywhere close to me.
But Weimortz could show a se-
rious side.
College roommate Todd Gayle
said Weimortz lifted him through
the loss of his brother.
David, it was truly an honor,
Gayle said. I love you buddy.
And Perla read one of
Weimortzs e-mails from the front
line. At the time, his platoon was
living in a bombed-out motel on
the outskirts of a heavily populated
insurgent town.
I have been involved in nu-
merous missions and I am hon-
ored and proud to be a part of this
historic process, he wrote. I feel
an unbelievable amount of ac-
complishment and that is what
gets me through the hot and very
lonely days. This place has
changed my life in only 3 short
months. I am ever so thankful to
have friends and family that care
for me.
Weimortz is survived by his
mother, Fran Fellers; his father,
Joseph Weimortz; and his sister,
Kelly Weimortz. He was especially
close to Kelly, and those who
spoke often addressed her from
the churchs pulpit.
After the service, Kelly
Weimortz said she adored her
older brother even when he was
picking on her or complaining
about attending her dance recitals.
He was my brother, my father,
my grandfather, my heart, my hero
and sometimes my 3-year-old tod-
dler. I felt like I could get through
anything with David.
Reach Phillips at
(803) 771-8307.
took refuge in their collective
mourning for the victims and in
their resolve to stick together.
Like everything, once the shiny
has worn off, its not as good a toy,
Rabern said. But even if fewer flags
fly now, by and large, everybody
is still patriotic. I know the people
that I deal with are proud of the
young men who are coming back
from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Once a month, VFW Post 641
hosts a friendship dinner for any-
one who wants to learn about the
post, and its patriotic and social
activities.
He said young veterans are not
signing up at the VFW as readily
as their elders who fought in
World War II did. That generation,
now passing on, was a different
breed, he said.
Most who do come in are wor-
ried, Rabern said. If they are (mil-
itary) career people, they are go-
ing to have to turn around and go
again.
Each Friday night at the post,
when members and their guests
gather to socialize, the last song
the Jeff Crider band plays is
Stand Up for America.
Everybody stands up, said
Rabern, a veteran of Korea and
Vietnam. They sing, they get on
the floor and hold hands and just
have a fellowship together. Some
of them who are (sitting beside the
dance floor) light their cigarette
lighters or candles. We, at our post,
have no trouble with patriotism.
CAN WE GET ALONG?
Politicians vowed to get along
in the wake of 9/11, to avoid the
partisan shout-downs that seemed
to characterize American politics,
particularly in the wake of the dis-
puted 2000 presidential election.
And there were displays of
unity in the days following the fall
of the twin towers.
But that was not destined to
last, said William Hine, a history
professor at South Carolina State
University in Orangeburg.
Even if somehow (Osama) bin
Ladin had been captured in the
months and years afterward, I
dont think we would have main-
tained this American unity, Hine
said. Historically, we have been
divided by issues that still divide
us. We have been divided over is-
sues like immigration, abortion,
prayer in the public schools, and
those all reared themselves up
pretty quickly after 9/11.
Many Americans compare
Sept. 11 to the Dec. 7, 1941, attack
on Pearl Harbor, which galvanized
Americans to enter World War II
and fight the Nazis and the Japan-
ese empire. But Hine said there is
a difference.
Post-Dec. 7, the American peo-
ple were called upon to make
enormous sacrifices, he said. To-
day, the American people, with the
exception of military families,
sadly, havent been called on to
make any sacrifices. You want
people to be committed to a cause,
but there is no price to be paid.
There is no sacrifice.
Some politicians have at-
tempted to be bipartisan.
For example, U.S. Sen. Lindsey
Graham, R-S.C., has tried to reach
consensus on difficult topics and
to work with centrist Republicans
and Democrats. But the Grahams,
John McCains and Barak Obamas
are exceptions, Hine said.
Having America divided has
benefited most politicians because it
unifies their core support, Hine said.
CHANGING ATTITUDES
Soon after 9/11, there was talk
of a huge uptick in church mem-
bership and a revival of religious
faith, a sort of 21st century Great
Awakening.
But many leaders of faith
groups say they understood the
great outpouring of spirituality and
churchgoing in the days following
9/11 would run its course.
The adage about there being
no atheists in foxholes held sway
during 9/11.
I dont think crisis ever perma-
nently changes anything, said the
Rev. Dick Lincoln, pastor of Shan-
don Baptist Church. I did not ex-
pect that (event) to make a spiritual
change in the life of the nation.
I did think it was wonderful
that so many peoples instinct was
to turn to God, he said. But, he
added, it takes deep reflection, not
simply crisis, to bring people to an
understanding of their need for
God.
Glenn Gentry, professor of phi-
losophy and apologetics at Co-
lumbia International University,
said he, too, never bought into the
speculation about increased
church attendance.
Americans, he said, will never
forget the threat of terrorism, but
they may forget to go to church.
Some things did change dra-
matically that day, Gentry said.
Christians have a different at-
titude toward the Islamic faith than
they did before and a different at-
titude toward post-modernism, he
said. They are less willing to say,
Whatever you believe is fine with
me.
What I hear now are more so-
phisticated questions. Yes, there
are moderate Muslims, but why
arent we hearing their voices?
Gentry, who has read widely in
the sacred writings of the worlds
faiths, tries to impart to his Chris-
tian students that the world is a
small place. They must inevitably
be engaged with and respect peo-
ple of other faiths even as they de-
fend their own beliefs.
I think this century may well
be the struggle for world views
among religions, Gentry said.
What 9/11 might have done for
Christians, he said, is to make them
think more deeply about their faith
and figure how to live in a world
with competing religious views.
American Christians have been
able to co-exist with a Western
popular culture they often dislike,
a tolerance he says radical Mus-
lims have not accepted.
He longs for the day when peo-
ple of different faiths say, I dont
think your world view is right, but I
say that in a respectful way. I recog-
nize you are not going to convert me
and Im not going to convert you.
Reach Click at (803) 771-8386.
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FIVE YEARS LATER SEPT. 11, 2001
TOM CROCKETT, a resident of Newport News, Va., who was in
Columbia on the day of the event:
Interviewed Sept. 11: One aspect of this is somehow not letting
it stand in the way. If they can shut everything down, then theyve
won.
Today: To a certain extent, they were successful in that they have
contributed to our living in a state of fear. From my perspective, the
only real response thats a real counter to the terrorist attacks is our
individually making choices to not live in fear.
FELIX FIGUEROA, principal at Bethel-Hanberry
Elementary School:
Interviewed Sept. 11: Well have an opportunity to reflect in a
school setting later on. Its real difficult. There are so many ways
children can react. Were just trying to keep calm.
Today: In reflecting on the entire thing, all our schools have a
heightened sense of maintaining safety in our environment. We are
concerned about anything that could harm our children. The direct
relationship from 9/11 is it intensified thoughts about things that
can occur, and our children have learned about it, too.
STEVEN CUFFE, University of South Carolina professor
and child psychiatrist:
Interviewed Sept. 11: The attack was a trauma to the American
psyche. It happened on our soil. There is a feeling of helplessness
that this could happen next door. Its hard to fight terrorism.
Today: I really think, if anything, the same issues are prevalent
today even though they (the terrorists) havent actually successfully
had another terrorist attack (in the United States).
It doesnt feel like its been five years to me. It still feels fresh to me
and is bound to be still frightening to people.
I do think that the American people have shown a great deal of
resilience and really gone on with their lives and dealt with these
issues well.
STEVE MANN, University of South Carolina finance professor,
travels to New York four to five times a year and taught classes in the
World Trade Center:
Interviewed Sept. 12, 2001: Ive only become angry today.
Yesterday my heart was broken. I feel like my neighborhood has
been violated. I couldnt watch it (on television).
Today: The wound is still open, but its healed some. I have to
admit when I read that, my eyes filled with tears. The anger has
morphed into sadness.
I still feel the same way about the threat of terrorism. Im not going
to let them stop me from going to New York or London. They may
get me, but Im not going to cower in fear in the meantime.
Its something I will never completely get over.
LILLA MYERS, 90, a resident of WildeWood Downs in
Northeast Richland:
Interviewed Sept. 11, 2001: Ive lived through the Depression.
Ive lived through World War II. I never thought I would live to see
this. This will change our childrens lives.
Today: Any war, anything like that, makes a big change in peoples
lives. (Thinking about 9/11) doesnt affect me all the time. I do think
about it occasionally, especially when the day comes up. You cant
be thinking about those things every minute and live a natural,
normal life.
Marjorie Riddle
Crockett Cuffe Mann Figueroa
THEN AND NOW
The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, left lasting impressions
on South Carolinians about a world forever altered. We
followed up with some of the Columbia-area residents and
visitors we talked with on that day five years ago to see how
their perspectives have changed through the years:
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Tim Anderson stood tall with
his American flag at Memorial
Park on the fifth anniversary of the
Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Its a tough day for people that
were directly affected, he said at
Mondays Freedom Walk in Co-
lumbia. The human suffering was
pretty tremendous.
Anderson and his wife, Sandy,
who were living in Virginia at the
time of the attacks, stood during
the commemorative ceremony lis-
tening and reflecting on their lives
and those they will never know.
Its crazy, she said. If you
werent affected you know some-
one who knows someone who
was.
About 100 people gathered at
the State House and walked to
Memorial Park on Washington
Street to honor the victims, sur-
vivors, families, military and first
responders of Sept. 11.
Its a fitting tribute to remem-
ber our committed and fallen ser-
vice and public safety members,
said Columbia Mayor Bob Coble.
This should be a day of remem-
brance for all of us.
After five years, tears still well
up in the eyes of those who think
about the 9/11 victims and family
members.
We are here because its bet-
ter than sitting in front of the tele-
vision crying, said Liz Mulvihill.
You have to be mindful that
we dont take things for granted
because it is good again, added
her husband, John. We cant for-
get what has happened and that
there is endless possibilities of
what tomorrow could be.
Many people were at work
when they learned something was
wrong at the World Trade Center.
Not everyone believed what was
unfolding.
It took a while before I be-
lieved it, said John H. Beard. I
thought it was a commercial or
something. I thought that no one
could really do that to us.
Every time I think about it, it
tears out my heart, said Valerie
James, another walker, who was
accompanied by her 2-year-old
son, Duncan. I was completely
mortified because I had never seen
anything like that before.
There were those who defied
the unknown and risked their lives
to save others.
In the face of so much terror,
so many Americans rose above
fear. They rose above fear to duty,
said Col. Eddie Stevens,garrison
commander at Fort Jackson.
People from all walks of life,
including first responders and mil-
itary personnel, rose to the call, he
said.
The thought that the United
States could see another attack is
never far for many.
It makes me realize that it can
happen again, Beard said. We
are as vulnerable as any place or
country.
Reach Jackson
at (803) 771-8512.
Columbians walk to park
to honor victims, heroes
This should be a day
of remembrance for
all of us, Coble says
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Sandy Anderson leans on her husband, Tim Anderson, Monday during a State House event
to honor those who died on Sept. 11, 2001.
Couple felt connection in visit to ground zero
Parents of woman
killed in Iraq donate
uniform to exhibit
Kimberly Hampton
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FIVE YEARS LATER SEPT. 11, 2001
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orty-eight troops with ties to South Carolina
have died in the Iraq war. The youngest was
19; the oldest, 52.
They battled insurgents. They soothed innocent
citizens caught in the crossfire.
They laughed over stories from home. They
grieved over their lost comrades.
They sacrificed their lives for their country. For
freedom.
They will not be forgotten.
For a tribute to South Carolinas war dead, go
to the state.com.
The Iraqi capital of Baghdad is hit by U.S. cruise missiles on March 20, 2003.
Lt. Rebecca Elliott, right, of Clemson, calms
a young Iraqi girl on May 20, 2003. A soldier from 3rd Infantry Division out of Fort Benning, Ga., salutes a fallen soldier on April 16, 2003, in Baghdad.
Soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division wait in line for lunch during a sandstorm on April 16, 2003, at Camp Udairi, Kuwait.
Spc. Veronica
Green-Windham,
left, and Spc.
Sharonda Rogers
compare letters
from family and
friends in Bayji,
Iraq, on April 23,
2003. It took
nearly a month
for the mail to
make its way up
the long supply
lines.
Pfc. Cody Force, left, looks down the sights of his
M-16 at an Iraqi being taken into custody by Sgt.
Hector Santiago, with the 3rd Infantry Division,
near Najaf, Iraq, in March 2003.
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FIVE YEARS LATER SEPT. 11, 2001
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James Olson of Jersey City, N.J., gazes Monday on the New York City skyline,
where the World Trade Center towers stood before the terrorist attacks.
I didnt want to forget.
Too many people want to
forget. I come because I
choose to remember.
KATHY KLINGAMON,
a United flight attendant
visiting Shanksville, Pa.
As I said 31 years ago
tomorrow, I will love you
and honor you all the days
of our life. Happy
anniversary, my love.
LINDA LITTO, who lost
her husband, Vincent Litto, at
the World Trade Center
This is where she left
us, so we come here to
remember her and keep her
alive.
SHERRIE WILLIAMS,
mother of Candace Lee
Williams, killed at age 20 on
American Airlines Flight 11,
speaking at ground zero
The pain just doesnt go
away.
DAWN DONOVAN, 45,
of Rutherford, N.J., gazing
across the Hudson River from
Jersey City toward ground
zero, where friends of hers
died
Its very hard. Our
family has just been ripped
apart. I still hold a lot of
anger, and thats not only at
the terrorists. I stayed mad
at God for quite some time,
even at Al (her husband), I
stayed mad at him. I was
supposed to have the rest
of my life with him. We were
together nine years. That is
not forever.
REBECCA
MARCHAND, of
Alamogordo, N.M., whose
husband was a flight
attendant on United Airlines
Flight 175
Baby, I love you. Save a
spot for me.
RICHARD
PECORELLA, a speaker at
the reading of the names at
ground zero, who lost his
fiancee, Karen S. Juday, in
the trade center attack
There is indeed evil in
the world, and we saw its
awful face on that horrible
day. It is also a day to
recognize that very often
when the worst in human
nature and human behavior
exhibits itself, so does the
best.
CONDOLEEZZA RICE,
secretary of state, speaking in
Halifax, Nova Scotia
We stand here today
with pride because of
heroism.
HAMILTON
PETERSON, whose father
and stepmother died aboard
hijacked United Airlines
Flight 93, where passengers
are believed to have stormed
the cockpit before it crashed
near Shanksville, Pa.
You just have a few
minutes down there, only a
few, but its very powerful.
MARY ADAMS, on
visiting the floor of the pit at
ground zero, where her
brother, Charles Murphy, died
I love you. ... My
thoughts are your thoughts,
until the end of time.
CHARLES WOLF,
reading the name of his wife,
Katherine, who died in the
trade center collapse
I am grateful to have
our child to raise, and to
help her understand that her
mother was and still is the
pride of New York City.
JAMES SMITH, police
officer, whose wife, Moira
Smith, was the only female
law enforcement officer to die
on Sept. 11, 2001
Be an angel to my
children. May our
grandchildren, two
generations after us, be
born into a world where
they dont have to stand
here, ever.
DOROTA ZOIS,
reading the name of her late
husband, Paul
The wind really whipped
up, because they are
constantly around. All these
souls are here. They are
here. Theres no closure.
DIANA OTTOMANO,
whose nephew died in the
south tower
From Wire Services
By AMY WESTFELDT
and ERIN McCLAM
The Associated Press
NEW YORK Clutching photos
to their hearts and blowing kisses
to the sky, the tearful loved ones
of the Sept. 11 victims recited a
3-hour litany of the lost Monday
in a fifth-anniversary remem-
brance as spare and stark as the
World Trade Center site itself.
The centerpiece of the nations
commemorations was the mostly
barren 16-acre expanse at ground
zero, where four moments of si-
lence were observed to mark the
precise times jetliners crashed into
the twin towers and the skyscrap-
ers crumbled to the ground.
The achingly familiar task of
reading the names of the 2,749
trade center victims fell this year
to their husbands, wives and part-
ners, who personalized the roll call
with heartbreaking tributes to the
loves of their lives.
If I could build a staircase to
heaven, I would, just so I could
quickly run up there to have you
back in my arms, said Carmen
Suarez, widow of city police offi-
cer Ramon Suarez.
On a crisp, sunny day not un-
like the morning of the attacks,
family members descended into
the pit 70 feet below ground where
the towers stood, tearfully laying
wreaths and roses in the sky-
scrapers footprints.
The mournful sound of bag-
pipes echoed across ground zero
after a choir performed the na-
tional anthem.
Five years from the date of the
attack that changed our world,
weve come back to remember the
valor of those we lost those who
innocently went to work that day
and the brave souls who went in
after them, said Rudolph Giuliani,
New Yorks mayor during the at-
tacks. We have also come to be
ever mindful of the courage of
those who grieve for them and the
light that still lives in their hearts.
The ritual has changed little
since the first anniversary of the
attacks, and in many ways the site
has remained the same as well.
Squabbles over design and se-
curity have caused long delays in
the project to rebuild at ground
zero. Only this year did construc-
tion start on a Sept. 11 memorial
and the 1,776-foot Freedom Tower,
which isnt expected to be finished
for five more years.
President Bush ate breakfast
with New York firefighters, and a
day earlier walked ground zero
and laid wreaths in reflecting pools
that symbolized the north and
south towers.
Cox Newspapers contributed.
By DAN NEPHIN
The Associated Press
SHANKSVILLE, Pa. One man
rode seven hours on his motor-
cycle to attend the ceremony. A
15-year-old girl hoped to under-
stand the deaths of 40 airline pas-
sengers and crew. Another visi-
tor was a flight attendant.
They were among hundreds of
people who gathered Monday in
a wind-swept field to remember
Flight 93, the hijacked jetliner in
which passengers tried to storm
the cockpit on Sept. 11, 2001, to
wrest control from terrorists
shortly before the plane crashed
in southwestern Pennsylvania.
The passengers were ordinary
citizens one moment and the
next, heroes forever, Gen.
Tommy Franks said. We mourn
their loss, to be sure, but we also
celebrate their victory here in the
first battle on terrorism.
The flight had been headed
from Newark, N.J., to San Fran-
cisco when hijackers took over,
apparently planning to crash the
jet into the White House or the
Capitol.
I believe I may owe my life to
those ordinary people, said Re-
publican Rep. Bill Shuster, whose
district includes the crash site.
Conversations from the flights
final minutes indicated the pas-
sengers knew about the attacks
in New York and took action af-
ter one of them said, Lets roll.
They didnt back down, said
Jim Martin, 51, of Buffalo, N.Y.,
who rode his Harley-Davidson to
the ceremony. I dont want those
people to be forgotten. Theyre re-
ally heroes.
About 1,000 people attended
the memorial service, including
nearly 300 relatives of victims.
President Bush laid a wreath
at the crash site and privately
greeted family members in a cold
drizzle as they marked the fifth
anniversary of attacks.
A 10-foot-tall chain-link fence
stands near the site as a tempo-
rary memorial, festooned with
American flags, firefighters
helmets and drawings by chil-
dren.
Organizers hope to raise $30
million in private funding to build
a permanent memorial on a
1,700-acre site in Shanksville.
At the ceremony, Gov. Ed Ren-
dell announced the state would
sign a commitment letter to give
$10 million to the memorial effort,
and that it had acquired 300 acres
around the crash site that will be
managed as a public wildlife area.
Some thoughts of President Bush about the
Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, from an inter-
view Monday on NBCs Today show
What most struck him about the attacks five
years ago:
I realized that we were involved in an ide-
ological struggle akin to the Cold War ... and
its a sobering thought.
What he feels has been accomplished in the
five years since that fateful day:
... Ive got a pretty good crystal ball, if I
could have anticipated all of that. I knew we
were going to have to have resolve. These were
cold-blooded killers, willing to kill in a variety
of ways. In the long term, weve got to defeat
an ideology of hate with an ideology of hope.
With all the intelligence reports he is regu-
larly briefed on, how does he sleep at night?
My job is to make sure you do sleep.
Theyre out there (terrorists), and theyre dan-
gerous, and we spend a lot of time thinking
about it.
From his address to the nation from the
Oval Office on Monday night:
On the heroism of Americans:
On 9/11, our nation saw the face of evil. Yet
on that awful day, we also witnessed something
distinctly American: ordinary citizens rising to
the occasion, and responding with extraordi-
nary acts of courage.
On democratic reform in the Middle East:
By standing with democratic leaders and
reformers, by giving voice to the hopes of de-
cent men and women, we are offering a path
away from radicalism. And we are enlisting the
most powerful force for peace and moderation
in the Middle East: the desire of millions to be
free.
On working together to win the war on ter-
ror:
Our nation has endured trials, and we face
a difficult road ahead. Winning this war will re-
quire the determined efforts of a unified coun-
try. So we must put aside our differences and
work together to meet the test that history has
given us.
The Associated Press
BUSH
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Names of the lost rise from void at ground zero
Bush, relatives honor heroes on Flight 93
PRESIDENT BUSH,
IN HIS OWN WORDS
NEW YORK CITY
SHANKSVILLE, PA.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
President Bush addresses
the nation from the Oval
Office on Monday night.
THE PENTAGON
Speeches mark deaths at Pentagon, in battle
By KEN HERMAN
and DAVID HO
Cox News Service
WASHINGTON On a day when
politics largely was put on hold,
Defense Secretary Donald Rums-
feld bolstered President Bushs re-
sponse to the Sept. 11 attacks at a
Pentagon memorial service.
Rumsfeld offered a generalized
defense of Bushs strategy.
The highest tribute we can pay
to them, Rumsfeld said of military
personnel who have died in the
war, is to commit ourselves to
doing everything possible to fight
the extremists wherever they are,
to making every effort to stay
united as a country and to give our
truly outstanding men and women
in uniform all they need to suc-
ceed.
Rumsfeld and Vice President
Dick Cheney strode side by side to
a speakers platform.
Rumsfeld appeared to struggle
with his emotions as he recalled
the day of the attacks, and
Cheney vowed resolve: We have
no intention of ignoring or ap-
peasing historys latest gang of fa-
natics trying to murder their way
to power.
Cheney said the battle against
terrorism remains fierce and it
will be lengthy.
But it is not endless, he
told a nation yearning for an end.
Our cause is right. Our will is
strong. This great nation will pre-
vail.
President Bush and the first
lady placed a wreath near a plaque
on the outside of the Pentagon,
where American Airlines Flight 77
claimed 184 lives and tore a gash
in the building.
Bush appeared teary-eyed as he
greeted victims family members
around him, and he could be seen
mouthing, God bless you, as he
embraced them.
The Associated Press con-
tributed.
Whatever mistakes have been
made in Iraq, the worst mistake
would be to think that if we
pulled out, the terrorists would
leave us alone, the president
said. They will not leave us
alone. They will follow us.
The address came at the end
of a day in which Bush honored
the memory of the attacks that
rocked his presidency and thrust
the United States into a costly
and unfinished war against ter-
ror.
It was a day of mourning, re-
membrance and resolve. Before
his address, Bush visited New
York, Shanksville, Pa., and the
Pentagon to place wreaths and
console relatives of the victims.
Five years ago, this date
Sept. 11 was seared into Amer-
icas memory, the president said.
Nineteen men attacked us with
a barbarity unequaled in our his-
tory.
Bush said Osama bin Laden,
the mastermind of the attack, and
other terrorists are still in hiding.
Our message to them is clear:
No matter how long it takes,
America will find you, and we
will bring you to justice.
Bush said the war on terror
was nothing less than a struggle
for civilization and must be
fought to the end. He said defeat
would surrender the Middle East
to radical dictators armed with
nuclear weapons.
We are fighting to maintain
the way of life enjoyed by free na-
tions, Bush said. Two months
before the November elections,
he attempted to spell out in
graphic terms the stakes he sees
in the unpopular war in Iraq and
the broader war on terror.
He said Islamic radicals are
trying to build an empire where
women are prisoners in their
homes, men are beaten for miss-
ing prayer meetings and terror-
ists have a safe haven to plan and
launch attacks on America and
other civilized nations.
The war against this enemy
is more than a military conflict,
Bush said. It is the decisive ide-
ological struggle of the 21st cen-
tury and the calling of our gen-
eration.
Five years ago, the attacks
transformed Bushs presidency
and awakened the world to bin
Laden and his band of al-Qaida
terrorists. While the public has
soured on the war in Iraq, which
Bush calls the central front in the
war on terror, the president still
gets high marks for his handling
of Sept. 11.
Terrorism has been a potent
political issue for Republicans,
and they hope to capitalize on it
in the elections. GOP lawmakers
are anxious about holding on to
control of both houses of Con-
gress.
Congress has approved $432
billion for Iraq and the war on
terrorism.
The safety of America de-
pends on the outcome of the bat-
tle in the streets of Baghdad, the
president said. He quoted bin
Laden as calling Iraq the Third
World War.
If we do not defeat these en-
emies now, we will leave our chil-
dren to face a Middle East over-
run by terrorist states and radical
dictators armed with nuclear
weapons, Bush said. We are in
a war that will set the course for
this new century and determine
the destiny of millions across the
world.
Earlier in the day, dozens of
lawmakers, Republicans and De-
mocrats alike, joined on the steps
of the Capitol to remember the
attacks, singing God Bless
America as they had five years
ago.
House Democratic leader
Nancy Pelosi said Monday, Five
years later, we have to continue
to move forward with unity, ur-
gency and in the spirit of inter-
national cooperation, because we
are not yet fully healed and not
yet as safe as we should be.
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honors victims
TIM DOMINICK/TDOMINICK@THESTATE.COM
This U.S. flag, held by retired New York police officer Marcelo Pevida during Mondays ceremonies at Finlay Park,
has flown over 9/11 ground zero in New York City.
Gathering at Finlay
Park pays tribute to
nearly 3,000 people
who died in attacks
U.S. TOUR BEGINS IN COLUMBIA
t was the first stop
along a charted path of
nationwide
remembrance.
The National
September 11 Memorial &
Museum launched its national
exhibit Monday at Columbias
Finlay Park. As it did, area
families touched by the 2001
tragedy joined city and
national officials and others
from the community who
came to reflect and remember.
The exhibit is a tribute to
the nearly 3,000 people who
lost their lives in the Sept. 11,
2001, attacks. It is beginning
a nationwide tour intended to
raise money and awareness
for the construction of the
National Memorial &
Museum at ground zero. The
facility is scheduled to open
in late summer 2009 and is
expected to draw 5 million
visitors each year.
SEE TRIBUTE PAGE A4
Raising money
for New York City
firetruck changed
Midlands students
By GINA SMITH
gnsmith@thestate.com
It started out as a school
fundraiser but morphed into a
cause that warmed hearts across
the Midlands and the nation.
If you lived in the Midlands
in 2001, you remember it.
Following the attacks on the
World Trade Center towers,
White Knoll Middle School
students sold handmade
buttons, T-shirts and cakes their
mothers baked. On weekends,
they scrubbed windshields and
knocked on neighbors doors,
asking for loose change.
The goal: Buy New York
City a new firetruck.
A few adults raised their
eyebrows at the six-digit price
tag. But the kids never did.
Their youthful enthusiasm
was what the country weary
and searching for answers
needed.
SEE STUDENTS PAGE A4
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tries to sell
drawdown
By DAVID ESPO
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON President Bush doesnt
exactly need permission from his com-
manding general to withdraw U.S. troops
from Iraq but he got it Monday, as Gen.
David Petraeus outlined plans to withdraw
as many as 30,000 troops by next summer.
Petraeus drew praise from the White
House but got a chilly reception from anti-
war Democrats.
Today, the president, who reportedly
liked what he heard last week when
briefed on Petraeus plans, will sit down
with congressional leaders he invited to a
meeting at the White House and is ex-
pected to make a nationwide speech on
the war in the next few days.
Petraeus said a 2,000-member Marine
unit would return home this month with-
out replacement in the first sizable cut
SEE IRAQ PAGE A3
By JOHN OCONNOR
joconnor@thestate.com
Republican presidential candidate Fred
Thompson introduced himself to the Pal-
metto State on Monday, and won over
Sumter residents Marylou Smith and Nalva
Malcom.
Smith, 64, and Malcom, 67, were two of
about 400 people who waited under the hot
September sun for Thompson to appear in
the parking lot of a Columbia barbecue
restaurant.
Smith said she came in supporting fel-
low Republican Rudy Giuliani, while Mal-
com was undecided. Both left ready to vote
for Thompson.
I didnt realize what he stood for,
Smith said. He says what were thinking.
Smith and Malcom said Thompsons po-
sitions means they do not have to compro-
mise any of their values.
SEE THOMPSON PAGE A8
Republican
presidential
contender
Fred
Thompson
made his first
campaign trip
to South
Carolina on
Monday.
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Petraeus recommended withdrawal of
30,000 U.S. troops by next summer,
representing a drawdown to troop levels
before the surge.
Both men said the surge is making
headway against violence in Iraq, though
political progress lags. Crocker said: A
secure, stable, democratic Iraq at peace
with its neighbors is, in my view, attainable.
Majority Democrats called the reports
unacceptable and said the surge has
failed and one poll found only 36
percent of Americans believe it has helped
stabilize Iraq.
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THE U.S. AND IRAQ
By creating a memorial, we
are fulfilling a generational oblig-
ation to tell what happened on
that day, Joe Daniels, president
and CEO of the September 11
Memorial & Museum, said to a
crowd of onlookers.
Daniels was one of several
speakers who offered tributes
during the short morning cere-
monies. Just behind those speak-
ers was a 4-ton, 38-foot steel
beam that will be a part of the
completed museum.
Columbia-based Owen Steel
constructed the beam after being
contracted to produce the roughly
10,000 tons of steel that will be
used in the museums structure. It
was largely because of that rela-
tionship that Columbia was se-
lected as the kickoff site for the
exhibit, which next heads to
Raleigh.
It felt right to launch it where
the steel started, Daniels said,
adding that Columbias patriotism
and numerous ties to the tragedy
also played a role in its selection.
Mondays audience included
many who lost family members
on Sept. 11, as well as military
and others in the area who re-
sponded in the aftermath. Among
those were former White Knoll
Middle School students who
raised more than $500,000 to buy
a truck for the New York City
Fire Department after the attacks.
Its so heartening to know
that down here in Columbia, so
many people care about their fel-
low citizens, Daniels said.
Mondays visitors were the
first to view the exhibit and also
got the chance to sign the large
beam that will travel as part of
the exhibit before being used in
the construction of the memorial
and museum.
Awaiting her turn in line was
Irmos Dawn Yamashiro, who
wore a bracelet bearing the name
of her brother, Brian Warner,
who worked at the World Trade
Center and lost his life on
9/11.Yamashiro was there with
her husband, Nobuo Yamashiro,
and their four young children.
To have this (begin) in my
hometown was incredible, she
said. Im very glad that they (my
children) are able to be part of
the first step in this. Its a way for
them to remember their uncle.
We were very excited to sign the
beam.
Retired Col. Victor Correa
was working at the Pentagon
when it was struck by a plane
that day, and he helped rescue
victims on the ground after the
crash. Correa, who lives in Elgin,
said he could not think of a more
appropriate place to launch the
exhibit.
I think they picked the right
place to start it off, he said, not-
ing the citys strong ties to Fort
Jackson and to the military in
general. Any way you look at it,
there is a connection to that day
and something that is going to be
remembered forever and ever.
The Sept. 11 exhibit remains
on display today at Finlay Park.
The audio-visual presentation fea-
tures photographs, artifacts and
film clips from the point of view
of families, responders, survivors
and others who came together in
the aftermath.
Visitors can make a donation
to the national museum and will
have a chance to sign the beam.
Funds raised through the tour
will go directly to the planning
and construction of the Memorial
& Museum. To date, $300 million
has been raised toward a private
fundraising goal of $350 million.
By GREG GORDON
McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON Two numbers
scrawled in a notebook that be-
longed to terrorism suspect Zacarias
Moussaoui could have given the FBI
a chance to identify several of the
Sept. 11 hijackers before they struck
six years ago, according to officials
familiar with the bureaus massive
investigation of the attacks.
The notebook entries recorded
control numbers for two Western
Union wire transfers in which sus-
pected al-Qaida coordinator Ramzi
Binalshibh, using an alias, sent
Moussaoui $14,000 from Germany
in early August 2001, before he
went to a Minnesota flight school to
learn to fly a Boeing 747 jumbo jet.
A check of Western Union
records probably would have un-
covered other wires in the preced-
ing days for similar sums of money
to Binalshibh who had been
turned away at the U.S. border four
times because he was a suspected
terrorist from an al-Qaida pay-
master in Dubai. On one of those
receipts, the paymaster listed a
phone number in the United Arab
Emirates that several of the hijack-
ers had called from Florida.
FBI headquarters, however, re-
jected Minneapolis FBI field
agents repeated requests for a na-
tional security warrant to search
Moussaouis belongings after he
was arrested Aug. 16, 2001. One
agent, Harry Samit, was so con-
vinced Moussaoui was a terrorist
he sent scores of messages to FBI
headquarters pressing for a search
warrant.
Its not clear whether the FBI
would have been able to trace the
money and telephone calls fast
enough to pre-empt the 9/11 attacks.
But the decision to reject the re-
quests for a warrant meant they
never had the chance.
Instead, Moussaouis tattered,
blue spiral notebook sat in a sealed
bag at an immigration office un-
opened until after four hijacked jets
slammed into New Yorks World
Trade Center, the Pentagon and the
Pennsylvania countryside, killing
2,972 people.
On Monday, FBI spokesman
Rich Kolko said the bureau had
worked diligently on the case but
the trail of evidence was complex,
and additional information was not
available until after the 9/11 events.
HAPPENING TODAY
Memorial services are planned
today at a park near ground zero in
New York City, where the World
Trade Center towers fell, and at the
Pentagon in Washington, D.C.
Services also will be held at
Shanksville, Pa., near the site where
hijacked United Airlines Flight 93
crashed six years ago today.
Soon, buckets passed around
during football games overflowed
with green. Checks from admirers
nationwide landed in the schools
mailbox. White Knoll buttons be-
came an en vogue accessory.
About $500,000 was raised,
and four White Knoll students
hopped on a plane to deliver an
oversized check live on NBCs
Today show.
But the highlight was a float
ride in the Macys Thanksgiving
Day Parade alongside then-New
York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and
Yankees manager Joe Torre, who
gushed over the students gen-
erosity.
In 2002, a new 100-foot ladder
truck was delivered to Ladder
Company 101 in Brooklyn, which
lost seven firefighters.
The truck, which still patrols
the streets of New York and flies
both American and Palmetto
State flags, is proof of South Car-
olinas generosity. The plaque on
its cab tells the childrens
fundraising story.
And, six years later, four stu-
dents say theyve been changed
by the experience forever.
MAURICE HALLMAN
Maurice Hallman, 17, placed
his hand on his heart Monday and
led a crowd in the pledge of alle-
giance as part of a Sept. 11
memorial ceremony at Finlay
Park.
Six years after his trip to New
York, Hallman is at least a foot
taller and a ton more confident
than the shy boy who never had
flown on an airplane.
The experience was unfor-
gettable, said Hallman, a White
Knoll High
School senior,
who said the
trip honed his
sense of com-
passion. If
people are in
need, Ill do
whatever I can
to help. Thats
what the
fundraiser
taught me.
In fact,
Hallman now
is active in an-
other school
fundraiser to
raise $150,000
so the new
field house at
White Knoll
High School
can be named
for Joshua L.
Torrence, an
alumnus killed
in Iraq.
Hallman,
an intern at a
local law firm,
plans to be-
come an attor-
ney specializing in family law.
Once again, his goal is to help
others. Thats what its all about
for me.
STACI SMITH
Staci Smith, then 12, tired
from her first ride on a private
jet, her first day in New York and
myriad other firsts laid her
head on the table in the fancy
New York restaurant.
Despite the smells of expen-
sive Italian food wafting from the
restaurants kitchen and the ex-
cited table chatter of the adults,
the little girl drifted off to sleep.
I was just exhausted from all
of the excitement, said Smith,
now a USC freshman one month
shy of her 18th birthday.
In the six years that have fol-
lowed, shes come to think of the
fundraising effort as part of her
coming-of-age story.
It helped me become more
outgoing and not be scared of
talking to crowds or making
class presentations. It helped me
grow up.
And she still loves to tell the
fundraising story to people she
meets. I still feel proud about
that firetruck. It brought the
whole community together.
LEIGH TYSON
As Leigh Tyson, 18, was walk-
ing and waving in a parade at
Clemson recently, she was struck
by a flashback.
It was of a cold, sunny day six
years ago when she rode on a
float with Giuliani and Torre.
Thats my best memory,
Tyson said, a Clemson freshman.
Being with the firemen and
Mayor Giuliani and how much
they appreciated our work.
At the end of the parade
route, she and the other White
Knoll students helped Giuliani
and firefighters carefully fold a
tattered U.S. flag that flew at the
World Trade Center on Sept. 11.
Long term, the trip to New
York has made the terrorist at-
tacks which most people ex-
perienced secondhand through
TV real and raw for Tyson.
I have more of a personal
feeling about Sept. 11. I helped
them recover.
THOMAS DUNN
Honestly, Thomas Dunn does-
nt believe a bunch of middle-
schoolers can fully comprehend
how big a task it is to raise
$500,000.
We were too young to real-
ize the magnitude of what we
were undertaking, said Dunn,
19, now a sophomore at the Col-
lege of Charleston. As a kid, you
think you can do anything and
dont understand all of the chal-
lenges.
What really blows Dunns
mind is that he and the other
1,300 White Knoll Middle School
students actually met the goal.
Thats what gets me. That we
actually did it. Its just unreal to
me even today.
Of course, it didnt all come
from bake sales and carwashes.
Major fundraisers were work-
ing behind the scenes, helping
the students. Local activist Sam
Tenenbaum, for instance, per-
suaded one philanthropist to do-
nate $100,000.
But that doesnt lessen the
goose bumps that rise on Dunns
arms each time he hears the na-
tional anthem.
It gave me a greater sense of
patriotism, a real feeling when-
ever I see the American flag,
whenever I think about 9/11,
Dunn said, who treasures a com-
position book he filled with fire-
fighters autographs and thank-
you notes on the New York trip.
After what happened to our
country and seeing how we re-
sponded, it shows were one of
the greatest countries in the
world, and Im glad to be a part
of it.
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Sept. 11, 2001 anniversary
By CHUCK CRUMBO
ccrumbo@thestate.com
KABUL, Afghanistan
O
n the sixth
anniversary of the
Sept. 11 attacks,
almost 2,000 South
Carolinians are in
Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is where
al-Qaida mastermind
Osama bin Laden put
together his network of
killers. And its where
U.S. troops launched the
war on terror.
The State recently
asked the S.C. troops
why they are serving in
Afghanistan. Heres a
sampling of what they
said:
Im here to ... make
sure a tragedy like 9/11
never happens again.
Sgt. James Linton,
Beaufort
I want to make sure
nothing like that ever
happens again.
Spc. Travis Duncan,
St. Helena Island
Once you see the kids
over here and relate to
them, you want to do
anything you can to
help.
Spc. Thomas Epps,
Greenville
Im just here fighting
the good fight. We dont
want the terrorists to
fight us on our ground,
so we might as well take
the fight to them.
Spc. Bobby Denton,
Blacksburg
Im here because I feel
its my duty. When I get
older, I want the
younger generation to
do the same for me.
Spc. Sean Falcon,
Jackson
I volunteered to be here
so you can enjoy the life
youve got in the States.
Sgt. Jimmy Sexton,
Beaufort
Were fighting to help
the Afghan people get
ahead. We need to be
here long enough to give
their country back to
them.
Airman 1st Class
Richard Padgett,
Greenville
To end the war on
terror is what were here
for. Were here to take
out the other guy.
Airman 1st Class
Matthew Turner,
Greenville
Id rather us be here
now, trying to make
friends with the
Afghans, rather than a
couple of years from
now the Taliban being in
our country, fighting us
on our home front.
Spc. Emylie Gillian,
Whitmire
Im here because my
first obligation is to
support and defend my
country. And, also, as a
soldier its my duty to
protect those who cant
protect themselves.
Spc. Michael Glover,
St. Matthews
EXCLUSIVE
FROM
AFGHANISTAN
The States Chuck
Crumbo is in
Afghanistan, covering
the S.C. National
Guards 218th Combat
Brigade Team. At
thestate.com, you can:
Read previous
stories by Crumbo,
including his online
Afghanistan
Notebook
See photos and
video
Read journals
written by family
members of
guardsmen in
Afghanistan
S.C. troops
overseas
talk about
mission
IF YOU GO
What: National September
11 Memorial & Monument
tribute exhibition
Where: Finlay Park
When: Noon to 6 p.m. today
Highlights: Photographs,
artifacts, video clips and
timelines from the Sept. 11
attacks. Visitors can sign a
steel beam that will be a part
of the museum.
Admission: Free
TRIBUTE
FROMPAGE A1
Bertram
Rantin
News
Columnist
brantin@thestate.com
(803) 771-8306
Could notebook clue have prevented 9/11?
STUDENTS
FROMPAGE A1
Tyson
Dunn
Smith
White Knoll Middle School principal Nancy Turner was
active in the fundraising drive after the 9/11 attacks.
EXCLUSIVE
Brian and Chrystel Sheridan of Lexington and their son,
Christian, view 9/11 photographs Monday.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY TIM DOMINICK/TDOMINICK@THESTATE.COM
Maurice Hallman leads the Pledge of Allegiance during Mondays ceremonies in Finlay
Park. Hallman attended White Knoll Middle School when its students raised more than
$500,000 to buy a truck for the New York City Fire Department after the 9/11 attacks.
R
OLL OUT THE RED
carpet in the den
and plant yourself
on the couch. Its time
for the 59th annual
Primetime Emmy
Awards, which air
Sunday at 8 p.m. on the
Fox network.
Therell be no need
for the remote control as televisions top
prizes are handed out.
Now its almost certain that youll be
outraged at least once during the telecast.
Emmy rarely gets it right. Do you really
believe that any other show
could be deemed funnier
than The Office when it
comes to picking the best
comedy series? Well see.
Still, even with the show
lasting three hours and
with Ryan Seacrest of
American Idol hosting, it
may feel like six hours
there will be things youll feel like they
didnt cover.
At the end of every annual Emmy
BETSEY GUZIOR/BGUZIOR@THESTATE.COM
New York City firefighters parade after the Tunnel to Towers Run in 2006. Each carries a banner with a picture of a rescue worker who died Sept. 11, 2001. The run follows the
route taken by firefighter Stephen Siller from the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel to the site of the Twin Towers in Manhattan.
TUESDAY, D 1 FULL
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By CATHERINE CHRISTMAN
Special to the State
I
COULDNT HAVE UNDERSTOOD IT CORRECTLY.
Surely New York City wasnt going to close down
the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel for runners to mimic the
final steps of my firefighter cousin.
But as it turns out, thats exactly what happens on the
last Sunday of each September since 2002. Stephen Siller,
orphaned at 10 and raised by his six brothers and sisters,
had just gotten off duty when the first plane struck the
Twin Towers. After his car scanner went off, the 34-year-
old father of five called his wife, told her hed be late, and
headed back to Manhattan. Finding the entrance to the
tunnel blocked, Stephen donned 75 pounds of firefighting
gear and ran to his fate.
And now, each September as I follow in Stephens foot-
steps, I find theres one thing my gaze comes back to
the thousands of white, square tiles that make up the in-
terior of the tunnel. Did Stephen look at this exact tile that
day, I wonder again and again. What was he thinking about
as he raced to the towers?
He knew it was going to be awful. He had to know.
But what he couldnt have known was that someday
there would be a benefit run in his memory, and that there
would be 343 firefighters posted throughout that very same
tunnel, each holding a banner with a picture of their fallen
brethren and cheering us on as we speed through.
He couldnt have foreseen the London firefighter who
runs in full gear each year to pay tribute to him.
He couldnt have imagined that Mayor Rudy Giuliani
would one day stand at the finish line with a tear in his
eye. And that Giuliani would look out at the sea of hu-
manity standing on the same terrain that had laid in ruins
just a few years earlier and marvel, This is why they will
never win, referring to the terrorists.
Russ Siller told me that after his brothers death he met
a man who was on the fire truck that picked Stephen up
at the end of the tunnel and dropped him off at the World
Trade Center.
Desperate to know what Stephens last minutes were
like, Russ asked, What was he saying? Was he talking at
all?
The firefighter said that as they came out of the tunnel,
one of the first things they saw were the remains of peo-
ple who had jumped to escape the inferno.
We knew it was going to be bad, he told a broken-
MEDIA DAY
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Flynnville Train, Flynnville Train (Show Dog);
Joe Henry, Civilians
(Anti); Hot Hot Heat,
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(Reprise);
Soundtrack, Across
the Universe
(Interscope);
Soundtrack, Greys
Anatomy: Vol. 3 (Hollywood); Soundtrack,
The War: A Ken Burns Film (Sony); Kanye
West, Graduation (Roc-a-Fella); Ann
Wilson, Hope & Glory (Zoe); Trisha
Yearwood, Greatest Hits (MCA Nashville).
New on DVD
Films: Away From Her, Snow Cake
Television: Two and a Half Men: The Complete
First Season, Supernatural: The Complete
Second Season, Greys Anatomy: The
Complete Third Season Seriously Extended
Edition, Charmed: The Final Season, Bones:
Season Two, The Addams Family Volume
Three, Fraggle Rock: The Complete Third
Season, McHales Navy: Season Two.
Documentaries: I Have Never Forgotten
You: The Life & Legacy of Simon
Wiesenthal, Obsession: Radical Islams
War Against the West.
Collections: The Fly Collection, MGM Movie
Scream Legends: Vincent Price Collection.
Remembering Sept. 11
FIREFIGHTERS FAMILY
ON OPRAH
Stephen Sillers family will be on todays Oprah, airing at 4
p.m. on WIS-10, cable channel 3.
TUNNEL TO THE TOWERS RUN
A 5K race to benefit The Stephen Siller, FDNY, Let Us Do
Good Childrens Foundation, which serves the needs of
children who have lost one or more parents. More than
15,000 runners participated last year. This years run is Sept.
30 in New York City, beginning at the Battery Tunnel in
Brooklyn. To register, visit www.tunneltotowersrun.org.
ETV
New York City firefighter Stephen Siller
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About
Town
Neil White
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Ladies and gentlemen,
here are the Talkies
Following in the footsteps of a hero helps one family
and one community keep a memory alive
Inside
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Friendly advice on
making friends, and
taking risks. Page D2
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Wednesday
As we head into fall,
look into the richness
of brown foods.
Life&Style.
By LARRY HEMBREE
Special to The State
W
ORKSHOP THEATRES
Thoroughly Modern Mil-
lie attempts to put a very
big musical on a very small stage.
In most respects, it succeeds,
thanks to splendid choreography,
marvelously produced costumes
and talented vocalists.
The musical, based on the 1967
film starring Julie Andrews and
turned into a play for Broadway in
2002, is the story of Millie Dill-
mount, a young innocent freshly ar-
rived in 1922 New York, deter-
mined to marry her boss. She falls
in love, takes up stenography, vis-
its a speakeasy and breaks up a
white slavery ring. It is a perfectly
constructed adventure of madcap
merriment.
Director and tap choreographer
Cindy Flach, with assistant direc-
tor and choreographer Terrance
Henderson, have gathered a
young, talented cast of dancer-
singers and succeed in giving the
musical a great sense of style. The
choreography is first rate, espe-
cially the tap sequences.
Vocally, the cast is solid, though
additional attention is needed to
boosting volume from the leads.
Some uninspired non-musical mo-
ments contrast greatly with the
sparkle of big musical numbers.
Laurel Posey as Millie makes
smart acting choices, moves won-
derfully and controls the pace. She
has a splendid musical theater
voice, but could project more.
Scott Vaughan as the seemingly
poor Jimmy Smith is an effective
match for Poseys Millie and pro-
vides a perfect blend of charm, re-
straint and rich vocals.
Other standouts are Bianca
Raso, Kyle Collins Jon and Toby
Taylor. Kathy Hartzogs dragon
lady performance is an over-the-
top testament to her innate under-
standing of comedic timing, and
Lou Warth, as Miss Flannery,
couldnt be funnier.
Costumes and wigs become a
character of their own during the
show, with costumers Janet Kile
and Ruth Mock and wig designer
David Swicegood deserving kudos.
Music director David B. Fisher gets
great work out of his singers and
ensemble.
Scenic designer Randy Strange
does a good job of using every inch
of the tiny Workshop stage.
Thoroughly Modern Millie
runs through Sept. 22. Call (803)
799-6551.
Larry Hembree has a master
of fine arts degree and is
executive director of the
Nickelodeon Theatre. broadcast, I always have the
sense that something is missing
and some wonderful characters
didnt get the recognition they
deserved.
Here is my attempt to rectify
any and all injustices before
they occur. But Im not going to
be limited by the lame
categories the Television
Academy uses. Ive come up
with my own.
And the winners are:
Dumbest Brother In A
Redneck Town: Randy Hickey,
My Name Is Earl. Randy is a
completely hopeless doofus, but
hes also totally endearing,
whether hes going old-school
when It Takes Two comes on
the Crab Shack juke box or
romancing the lovely illegal
immigrant hotel maid Catalina
or getting relentlessly insulted
by his former sister-in-law Joy
or trying to talk his brother Earl
into dumping that do-gooder
karma list.
Wackiest Executive In A
Network Office Setting: Jack
Donaghy, 30 Rock. Hes
biting, hes cocky, hes
insensitive, hes impulsive and
hes this close to screwing up his
networks sketch comedy show.
But, best of all, hes both smart
and funny, even if he does drive
Liz Lemon crazy with his
manipulative antics, such as
bribing a test audience into
agreeing with him on a name
change for The Girlie Show.
Toughest Assistant To The
Regional Manager In A Paper
Distribution Company: Dwight
Schrute, The Office. Some
might view him as an arrogant
authoritarian. Some might call
him a shameless suckup. But
when it comes to helping run an
office, Dwight is in control. Hes
a security expert, a Purple belt
senpai and a true management
mastermind, as seen by his
motivational tool, Schrute
bucks.
Crudest Animated Third-
Grader In A Colorado
Elementary School: Eric
Cartman, South Park. One of
four central characters, Cartman
pushes every boundary with his
foul-mouthed, sociopathic,
selfish, bigoted antics. Yet
despite his offensive ideas, hes
still the charismatic leader of his
peers. This is one 9-year-old
nobody in South Park wants to
mess with. He deserves this
Emmy for sheer outrageousness.
Most Hedonistic Jingle
Writer Putting Up With His
Brother In A Malibu Beach
Home: Charlie Harper, Two
and a Half Men. Its not exactly
Family Affair, but Charlie does
care enough about his brother
Alan and nephew Jake to let
them move in with him, even
though he refuses to let them
hinder his hard-living lifestyle.
Charlies constant barrage of
one-liners at his brothers
expense is almost as funny as his
steady attempts to meet as many
beautiful women as he can. The
only women he cant manipulate
are his equally wild mother,
Evelyn, and his acid-tongued
housekeeper, Berta.
Funniest Fake Television
Commentator Who Takes
Himself Very Seriously:
Stephen Colbert, The Colbert
Report. You might not get the
truth on Colberts show, but you
will get truthiness, which is
close enough in most cases. This
blowhard political pundit not
only gives us The Word, but he
also gives us a reason to stay
interested in the news of the
day. Lets just hope he doesnt
lose the Emmy again this year to
Barry Manilow, or things will
really get ugly.
Smartest Coach On A
Coaches Show: Steve Spurrier,
The Steve Spurrier Show.
Hey, the man beat Georgia.
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hearted Russ. He didnt say any-
thing. Nobody said anything.
I was thinking about that the
other day as I read that some res-
idents of the Big Apple were
whining that 9/11 remembrances
had become tiring.
You have to wonder if the
firefighters who made it up 75
flights of stairs that day found it
a little tiring, I raged to my hus-
band. Or if Stephen, after run-
ning miles through the tunnel,
knowing full well he would have
to climb stairs when he reached
his destination, found that a little
tiring.
But Stephens brothers and
sisters dont see it that way.
I dont expect anybody else to
have an awareness that I have.
Life has shaped my awareness,
said Stephens sister, Mary
Scullin. Stephens brother Frank
echoed that. I choose to hang
around people who understand
what happened and want to do
good things through the run, he
said.
But the Sillers are not like
Mother Teresa or Pope John Paul
II, on the fast-track to sainthood.
Mary sprinkles her remarks with
the tiniest bit of saltiness, and lots
of hearty laughter, as she makes
the all-too-human admission that
shes searching for just the right
outfit to wear on todays episode
of Oprah, where the Sillers will
talk about the good thats come
from 9/11.
In the documentary, For the
Love of Their Brother, which de-
tails the tribute the family has
paid to the brother who was more
like a son, actor John Turturro
marvels that they have turned
what could have been bitterness
into life-affirming love.
Turturro might have been re-
ferring to the ground that will be
broken soon on Staten Island for
Stephens House. The childrens
home, meant to shelter the need-
iest of the neediest, as Mary puts
it, will fittingly be in the shape of
a firehouse.
The Sillers want the children
who come to Stephens House
to know that their little brother
who loved the movie Its a Won-
derful Life and who at age 10
was so bewildered by the death
of his parents he once asked,
Why was I born? to know
that they, too, have a purpose, a
calling, a reason to be here.
How do you remember 9/11?
Mary asked in answer to my
question.
You remember by living your
best, she said simply.
Catherine Christman, a former
editor at The State, is vice
president of communications
for ETV.
REMEMBER
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LIFE&STYLE
By JEFFREY DAY
jday@thestate.com
T
OWN THEATRES produc-
tion of the 1950s musical
Mame shows all the
strengths and weaknesses of com-
munity theater. The cast lacks co-
hesion and the singing and acting
are inconsistent, but the show
pours on the enthusiasm. The stage
is small, but the director and de-
signers try to give it the feel of a
big show.
In the end, the story of a col-
orful woman and her influence on
her young nephew is perfectly ad-
equate community theater. Yes,
its reach often exceeds its grasp,
and the run time may exceed your
patience, but it showcases the
towns talent.
Director Scott Blanks plays traf-
fic cop to a cast of about 30 who
go through about 200 costumes.
The band is led with enthusiasm
by musical director Linda Kershaw.
As the title character, Mary Beth
Sims Branham lights up the stage
from her entrance at the top of an
elaborate, beautiful and well-func-
tioning set by Danny Harrington.
Branham has the perfect look and
voice for the woman who loves to
have a good time, even in times of
trouble.
When her orphaned nephew
Patrick arrives with his funny and
funky nanny Agnes Gooch, Mame
makes them part of the big, happy
extended family.
The story of the musical is how
Patrick grows up and distances
himself from his eccentric aunt.
The story isnt particularly well-told
by this production; the emphasis is
more on getting all the big num-
bers on stage.
Other standouts in the cast are
Lisa Akly, who is excellent as Agnes,
and Scott Stepp as the Southern
gentleman who sweeps Mame off
her feet (and saves her from the De-
pression and her inability to hold a
job). Its too bad he doesnt have
more than one song to sing because
his voice is wonderful.
Rachel Smith does a wonderful
job with the small role of Patricks
bubble-brained girlfriend.
Mame is a fun, rather anti-es-
tablishment show with some great
songs (If He Walked Into My Life,
My Best Girl, and We Need a
Little Christmas), but it could use
a bit of a face lift.
Mame runs through Sept. 29.
Call (803) 799-2510.
Reach Day at (803) 771-8518.
REVIEWS
Mame perfectly adequate theater
Rousing musical moments spark Millie
Mary Beth
Sims
Branham
as Mame.
By ADAM BEAM
and RICK BRUNDRETT
abeam@thestate.com
rbrundrett@thestate.com
Columbia officials, moving to
calm safety concerns in the citys
downtown business corridor, are
reopening a police substation and
working with Richland County to
keep newly released inmates away
from Main Street.
The moves come after a
woman said she was robbed at
gunpoint in the parking lot of the
Main Street United Methodist
Church earlier this year and after
a University of South Carolina stu-
dent was raped in a dark alley
Sunday night near the Tapps
building on Main Street.
And after a summer during
which mothers at a Main Street
day care center were harassed by
homeless men, city and business
leaders are taking notice.
The Columbia Police Depart-
ment could not provide crime sta-
tistics Wednesday for Main Street,
so it is unclear whether crime is
rising or falling.
But it is clear that when it
By JOHN OCONNOR
and GINA SMITH
joconnor@thestate.com
S.C. Democratic Party chair-
woman Carol Fowler sparked a
firestorm Wednesday by saying
Republican vice
presidential can-
didate Sarah
Palins primary
qualification was
that she had not
had an abortion.
Choosing
someone whose
primary qualifi-
cation seems to
be that she hasnt
had an abortion
... if youre a one-issue voter, I
guess thatll do it for you, Fowler
told Politico.com, a Washington,
D.C., political news Web site.
Republicans denounced
Fowlers comment, while Democ-
ratic presidential candidate Barack
Obama disavowed it.
Politico reporter Alexander
Burns said he read the quote back
to Fowler, who confirmed its ac-
curacy. Politico provided a tran-
script to The State newspaper.
Fowler, who was a superdele-
gate for Obama to the Democratic
national convention, subsequently
apologized saying, it was a clum-
sily made point about single-issue
voters.
Obamas campaign said it does
not share Fowlers opinions on
Palins qualifications.
She was not speaking for our
campaign just as John McCain
has said state parties dont speak
for him, said spokeswoman
Melanie Roussell. Obviously, this
does not reflect our view.
Republicans said Fowlers com-
ment crossed the line of appropri-
ate discourse.
Its an inappropriate, outra-
geous, demeaning attack, said
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-
By JOY L. WOODSON
jwoodson@thestate.com
South Carolina elementary and
middle school students posted
nearly across-the-board gains on
the 2008 PACT unprecedented
in the life of the 10-year-old test,
given for the final time this spring.
More third- through eighth-
graders reached the highest scor-
ing levels on the annual standard-
ized test, and more met basic
standards in a majority of cate-
gories than in 2007, according to
results released Wednesday by the
state Department of Education.
Science and social studies saw
the largest gains in proficient or
advanced ratings, with third-
graders posting a 9.1 percentage
point increase in science, and
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Georgia fans travel, especially to
nearby Columbia. Most downtown ho-
tels are sold out.
Tony Tam, manager of the Hilton
Columbia Cent er and Hampt on Inn
on Gervais, said Saturday is sold out
in bot h hot els, and Friday will be
soon.
And some people will even roll in
(today). Georgia fans. Gotta love em.
They are just incredible.
This weekend,
restaurant reservations
are a good idea.
With the big game starting at 3:30 p.m. and
expected to end at 7 p.m., local eateries will be
slammed post-game.
Bill Dukes, owner of Columbia s iconic Blue
Marlin in the Vista, said Saturday night is filling
up. I got reservations from Verne Lundquist and
the CBS crew, he said. We re excited about that.
A 3:30 game is awesome. That means peo-
ple eat out on Friday night and Saturday night.
But we need to start winning football games so
we can keep getting that TV slot.
Good luck finding one.
Regular $55 tickets have
been sold out forever. Staffers
at the USC ticket office even chuckled when
we inquired.
Online ticket brokers might be your best
bet, but be prepared to shell out some ma-
jor cash.
Stubhub.com and ticketheroes.com are
selling tickets from $90 for an upper-deck
nosebleed bench seat to $625 for a side-
line chair seat close enough to hear Steve
Spurrier s visor hit the ground.
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The lessons of 9/11
Fowlers
abortion
remark
draws fire
Leader of S.C.
Democrats sorry
for clumsily made
point about Palin
Officials address worries with reopened police
substation, safety escorts, action on inmates
Memory of terrorist attacks affects classroom curriculum
Is downtown
safe? City
aims to ease
new fears
R E M E M B E R I N G
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CRIME ON MAIN STREET
TRACY GLANTZ/ TGLANTZ@THESTATE.COM
Sculptor Randall Hammonds welds aluminum pieces on the 9/11 monument that
will be unveiled at Lexingtons Marc J. Westbrook Judicial Center today.
9/11 TIMELINE
8:45 a.m.: Hijacked passenger
jet, American Airlines Flight 11
from Boston, crashes into the
north tower of the World Trade
Center.
9:03 a.m.: A second hijacked
airliner, United Airlines Flight
175 from Boston, crashes into
the south tower.
9:43 a.m.: American Airlines
Flight 77 crashes into the
Pentagon.
10:10 a.m.: United Airlines
Flight 93, also hijacked,
crashes in Somerset County,
Pa.
SOURCE: CNN.com
By CAROLYN CLICK
cclick@thestate.com
W
here were you on 9/11?
Hands shot up in
Perry McLeods fourth-
period technology class
Wednesday when he asked the
question of a group of high
school juniors.
Like the generations before
them remembering where they
were when President Kennedy
was shot and Pearl Harbor was
bombed, these teenagers at
Richland Northeast High
School share a childhood mem-
ory, a national and cultural
touchstone that is unlikely to
fade with time.
Megan Berry and Andrew
Owens were in a fourth-grade
classroom at the Center for
Knowledge at E.L. Wright Mid-
dle School when a teacher in
the portable classroom next
door rushed in and told their
teacher to turn on the televi-
sion.
Then, for the next few
hours, they watched the stun-
ning video of the World Trade
Center falling the same clip
over and over again, Andrew
SEE 9/11 PAGE A4
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Zach Siokos of Premier Martial Arts shows Liz Jackson,
center, how to break free from Tracey Barnwells chokehold
during a free self-defense class Wednesday at Main Street
United Methodist Church. SEE FOWLER PAGE A7
SEE COLUMBIA PAGE A4
More S.C. students meet
expectations on state tests
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IN THE NEWS
Government officials
traded sex, favors
with oil company
staffers, report says
U.S. Interior Department em-
ployees while handling billions
of dollars in oil and gas royalty
payments engaged in sex with
oil indust ry employees and ac-
cepted meals, drinks, ski junkets
and golf outings from major oil
companies, internal investigators
reported Wednesday.
Page A3
The border war at Williams-
Brice St adium bet ween t he
Gamecocks and the Bulldogs is
hist orically one of Columbia s
biggest party weekends.
Bars, restaurants, nightclubs,
hotels, ticket brokers and liquor
stores all do a land-rush business
when the Dawgs come to town.
With Georgia ranked No. 2 in the
country, this year will be no ex-
ception.
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How did your child s school
district do on the last PACT
test the state will give?
said, trying to decipher history
as it was unfolding in front of
them.
Then, they said, they left the
classroom for a hastily assembled
school gathering to remember the
dead in the nations worst terror-
ist attack.
I tell my kids (that) the minute
this happened, all our lives
changed, said McLeod, a history
teacher who has pioneered stu-
dent-led oral history projects on
local World War II veterans, and
more recently, veterans of the Iraq
and Afghanistan wars.
In those initial hours, the na-
tion struggled to grasp that Mus-
lim extremists had actually hi-
jacked planes and flown them into
the twin towers and the Pentagon.
The first thing I thought was
that something fake was going on,
like a Bruce Willis movie, he told
his students.
Thats what Megan thought,
too. Like Mr. McLeod, I thought
it was fake, she said.
As the years passed, she said,
she has discovered a yearning to
learn more about the worlds con-
flicts, whether in Darfur, Sudan or
Belfast, Northern Ireland, and see
what she can do to work toward
peaceful resolution.
In this class, McLeod also pro-
jected on his large classroom com-
puter screen the political cartoons
that remind students of the bias
and racism that can erupt after
great national upheaval. He
showed the students derogatory
cartoons and hunting licenses for
Japanese in the wake of Pearl Har-
bor, and a Terrorist Body Bag
that featured pictures of Osama
Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.
Across the Midlands today, so-
cial studies and history teachers
will find ways to introduce the
lessons of 9/11.
At Ridge View High School,
Matthew Tinneny, chairman of the
social studies department and a
volunteer fireman, plans to bring
in his firefighting equipment to
demonstrate the courage and
physical stamina of the firefight-
ers who entered the World Trade
Center and perished as the towers
collapsed.
Ive done this every year since
Sept. 11, Tinneny said, noting that
some firefighters made it to the
77th floor toting backpacks that
weighed up to 60 pounds.
Tinneny weaves the drama of
Sept. 11 into the more compre-
hensive lessons of history, from
the American Revolution to the
reasons the U.S. is now waging
war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Americans have such a short
memory, he said.
He knows many of his stu-
dents, including those from Fort
Jackson, have family deployed
overseas and he wants to make
sure his classes understand why
American troops are fighting.
So long as moms and dads
and brothers and sisters are de-
ployed, specifically in Afghanistan,
they need to know why their fam-
ilies are there. This is a sacrifice
people cant forget.
At Hopkins Middle School, stu-
dents are using the Sept. 11 an-
niversary to write letters to fire-
fighters, police and emergency
personnel to recognize their com-
munity service.
Students also are building a
Wall of Remembrance as a
memorial to the 9/11 victims and
their families.
Remembering is so important
because people say history re-
peats itself, said Sean Windham,
one of McLeods students.
Sean interviewed a veteran of
Iwo Jima for the Greatest Gener-
ation project and is looking for-
ward to talking to veterans of mod-
ern conflicts.
It makes it more lively than
reading it out of a textbook.
Reach Click at (803) 771-8386.
comes to Main Street, perception
is just as important as reality.
Having a safe and per-
ceived as safe Main Street is
very important, Columbia
Mayor Bob Coble said. I think
we are addressing that issue, and
it is one we will have to always
and continuously address.
The changes include:
Reopening a police substation
at Taylor and Assembly streets
to add more police presence
Meeting with Richland County
to move the drop-off point for re-
leased inmates from the Sumter
Street bus station to other parts
of the city
Establishing a fund to buy re-
leased inmates bus tickets to
their hometowns
Yellow-shirt city safety
guides adding shifts on Sunday
nights to bolster safety
Thats good news for busi-
nesses owners, who have been
counting on Main Streets revival.
If folks dont feel safe walk-
ing a couple of blocks, youre not
going to have pedestrian traffic,
said Ryan Hyler, director of re-
search and marketing for the real
estate firm Colliers Keenan.
THE HOMELESS
City officials have met with
Main Street United Methodist
Church after parents at the
churchs day care center reported
being harassed by homeless men
in the parking lot.
Tara McGregor said she was
putting her 2-year-old son in the
car this summer when a home-
less man approached her.
He was almost coming onto
me. He was obviously drunk or
high.
McGregor said a day care
worker quickly came to the res-
cue, chasing the man away.
The church has started offer-
ing free one-hour self-defense
classes, and 12 women attended
Wednesday nights session.
Zach Siokos of Premier Mar-
tial Arts showed the group sev-
eral ways to escape a chokehold.
Sundays incident was a re-
minder that people need to stay
alert, said 64-year-old Willie Mae
Tyson of Columbia, who at-
tended the class.
Im old. I live alone. I need
all the help I can get, she said.
Efforts to reach four advo-
cates for the homeless were un-
successful Wednesday.
THE POLICE
Columbia Police Chief Tandy
Carter said the downtown area
already gets a lot of coverage,
noting that at least one officer is
assigned to cover the area 90 per-
cent of the time.
Carter said that because the
homeless commit a very small
percentage of the reported vio-
lent crime, he is considering shift-
ing some resources to other ar-
eas of the city where violent
crime is more of a problem.
However, he stressed that of-
ficers will always respond to
complaints involving the home-
less.
My thought is that our qual-
ity of life improves when we have
less crimes of fear, Carter said,
and crimes of fear are violent
crimes.
A written notice to Tapps res-
idents Monday from Tom Pri-
oreschi, owner of Capitol Places,
which manages the Tapps build-
ing, said the alleged assailant in
Sundays incident reeked of al-
cohol and body odor.
Carter said investigators dont
know if the alleged rapist is
homeless.
The reports appear to have
gotten the attention of City Coun-
cil, which met for about 90 min-
utes Wednesday behind closed
doors to discuss a contractual
matter relating to the homeless
shelter.
Council members did not vote
on the issue and did not discuss
it publicly.
THE FORMER INMATES
Besides the homeless popula-
tion, Carter said his department
also has to contend with Richland
County jail inmates who are
dropped off at the Sumter Street
bus station downtown.
The Alvin S. Glenn Detention
Center releases about 100 in-
mates a week at the bus station,
one block from Main Street.
Carter said about 2,400 in-
mates have been brought to Co-
lumbia since February, including
seven on the night of the re-
ported rape, though he added
there is no evidence that one of
them was involved in that inci-
dent.
Richland County administra-
tor Milton Pope met with assis-
tant city manager Allison Baker
this week to discuss adding other
drop-off points so the inmates
wont be concentrated in one
area.
Just let us know where you
want us to drop off and that is
where we will drop off, Pope said.
City manager Charles Austin
said he believes some of the citys
crime problems come from re-
leased inmates who dont have a
permanent Columbia address. He
wants to establish a fund that
would buy those inmates bus
tickets to their hometowns. Its
unclear how the city would pay
for that.
THE SAFETY GUIDES
After Sundays attack, city
safety guides wearing yellow
shirts will start working Sunday
nights to escort residents, hotel
guests and others to their cars or
other places downtown, said
Matt Kennell, president and CEO
of the City Center Partnership,
which operates the citys Busi-
ness Improvement District.
We are taking this seriously,
he said, noting that more than
200 people live on Main Street.
Kennell said Sundays attack
was the most serious crime he
could recall in the downtown
area in the last six years.
He said he was planning to in-
crease the size of his group be-
fore the incident, with the addi-
tion of a third hotel downtown.
The guides are not police of-
ficers and are not armed, though
they carry cell phones and radios,
he said. They patrol on foot, bike
or vehicle in a 36-block area
bounded by Elmwood Avenue,
Gervais Street, Assembly Street
and Marion Street.
The guides often are asked to
escort women getting off work
downtown to their cars, Kennell
said. They also provide rides to
downtown locations, he said,
adding hotel guests often request
that service.
Until you can get a little less
homelessness and a little more
pedestrian traffic, that perception
is going to stay as it is, Hyler
said.
Reporter Lee Higgins
contributed.
Reach Beam at (803) 771-8405
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Among local events today:Unveiling and dedication of 9/11 memorial: 10 a.m.
at the Marc Westbrook Judicial Center, 205 E. Main St., Lexington, recep-
tion to follow at Lexington County Administration Building. For a closer look
at the memorial, see todays Lexington County Neighbors editions or log on
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City Of Columbia Freedom Walk: 11:30 a.m. at the State House, 700 Hamp-
ton St. Walkers must arrive by 11:20 a.m. A ceremony will follow at noon at
City Hall in council chambers, 1737 Main St.
Atria Forest Lake Patriot Day luncheon: 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at 4551 For-
est Drive. Firefighters, police officers, emergency medical technicians and
their families are invited to attend.
Richland Northeast High: Tiana Kindred, company commander for the school s
JROTC, will lead cadets in a service at the flagpole at 7:45 a.m. The public
is welcome.
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mericas two wars since
the 9/11 terrorist attacks
eight years ago today
have stressed the lives of thou-
sands of S.C. military families,
straining marriages and hurting
children.
These issues pile on top of the personal
struggles of many once-deployed service
members, still mending from physical and
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By GINA SMITH
gnsmith@thestate.com
Overnight, U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson has
morphed from a relatively obscure politi-
cian into a love him or hate him light-
ning rod.
The sea change was most apparent in
Wilsons conservative home turf of Lex-
ington County, where constituents in-
cluding some who barely knew Wilsons
name on Wednesday spent Thursday
waxing on whether the Springdale Re-
publican broke with decorum by berating
President Barack Obama during his con-
gressional address on health care.
You lie! Wilson called out after
Obama said his plan would not provide
health care to illegal immigrants.
The phone rang so much at Wilsons
empty re-election campaign headquarters
in West Columbia Thursday that an em-
ployee of the business next door walked
over and muffled the phone with blankets
and other materials.
By JAMES ROSEN
jrosen@mcclatchydc.com
WASHINGTON President Barack
Obama on Thursday accepted U.S. Rep.
Joe Wilsons apology for interrupting his
health care speech, but the South Carolina
Republican insisted again that Obama had
misled the nation with inaccurate state-
ments.
Wilson, a retired Army National Guard
colonel in his fifth House term, has become
a lightning rod for the bitter national de-
bate over health care reform.
Democrats and Obama backers pillo-
ried Wilson for having called the president
a liar on live, prime-time TV. A number of
Republicans criticized him publicly, but he
said many of his House colleagues praised
him privately.
Ive been very pleased at the number
of people who have told me that what I
said is what they felt, Wilson told Mc-
Clatchy Newspapers.
The episode also vaulted Wilsons 2008
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Lt. Tony Hedrick, who was stationed
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9/11: The war on terror
By CHUCK CRUMBO ccrumbo@thestate.com
By SUZANNE MA
The Associated Press
NEW YORK Americans planned
beach cleanups, packages for sol-
diers and save-the-tree fundrais-
ers along with familiar remem-
brances in three cities to mark
eight years since the attacks of
Sept. 11, the first time the an-
niversary was named a national
day of service.
Instead of us simply remem-
bering the horrible events and
more importantly the heroes who
lost their lives on 9/11, we are all
going to turn into local heroes,
said Ted Tenenbaum, a Los An-
geles repair shop owner who of-
fered free handyman services
Thursday and planned to do so
again today.
Similar donations of time and
labor were planned across the
country after President Barack
Obama and Congress declared the
day would be dedicated to service
this year for the first time.
Some Americans are suspicious
about the new commemoration,
fearing it could overshadow a
somber day of remembrance for
nearly 3,000 people killed aboard
four jetliners and at the World
Trade Center in New York, the
Pentagon, and a field in western
Pennsylvania.
When I first heard about it, I
was concerned, said Debra
Burlingame, whose brother was
the American Airlines pilot of the
hijacked jet that crashed into the
Pentagon. She fears that at some
point well transition to turning it
into Earth Day, with scant re-
membrance of the days disasters.
But such doubts did not
dampen spirits of those who
planned to participate. A Boston
group planned to pack CARE
packages for soldiers, and in San
Diego, Dave Matthews Band
bassist Stefan Lessard is sponsor-
ing a beach cleanup.
Sue Katz, a tour bus guide in
New York City, planned a walking
tour in Central Park to raise
money for the hundreds of cen-
tury-old trees toppled by a recent
storm.
Katz called the park New York
Citys lungs and said of the im-
promptu fundraiser, This is my
way to give back.
psychological wounds.
Families are hurting; the sol-
diers are hurting, said Lt. Col.
Clarence Bowser, director of the
S.C. National Guards Family Ser-
vices Program. Were asking more
of the same people to go again
and make a sacrifice and that af-
fects the family even more.
To address the problem, the
Pentagon has put together a bevy
of services designed to help troops,
spouses and children.
The programs, provided by the
Defense Department through the
S.C. National Guard, were created
in the wake of a number of studies
that found deployments to
Afghanistan and Iraq were tearing
at the fabric of family life.
Since 9/11, there have been
9,000 deployments from South Car-
olina, said Col. Pete Brooks,
spokesman for the S.C. National
Guard. Some troops were called up
for homeland security missions just
hours after terrorist planes crashed
into the World Trade Center and
Pentagon and a field in Pennsylva-
nia, killing nearly 3,000 people.
Its unclear how many of S.C.
Army Guards 9,700 soldiers have
deployed multiple times. But when
the Guards 218th Brigade Combat
Team left for Afghanistan in May
2007 with 1,600 troops, about a third
of its soldiers had deployed at least
once before.
Multiple deployments impact the
home front because the spouse left
behind has to take on both parents
roles in raising the children and
managing the household.
Researchers have found children
suffer, too.
A June report from the Penta-
gon said 67 percent of Guard and
Reserve spouses reported an in-
crease in their childrens level of fear
and anxiety.
The same report found the aca-
demic performance of Guard and
Reserve children dropped 38 per-
cent and there was a 34 percent in-
crease in behavioral issues at school.
Guard and Reserve members
continue to make up a significant
portion of U.S. forces. About 11 per-
cent of the total U.S. forces in Iraq
are Guardsmen and reservists, ac-
cording to a Pentagon study. In
Afghanistan, Guardsmen and re-
servists made up 21 percent of U.S.
troops.
But returning home tends to be
harder for Guardsmen and re-
servists than for their active-duty
counterparts, according to Penta-
gon studies.
Challenges the Guard and Re-
serve members face include:
Returning to their hometowns in-
stead of military bases and not be-
ing surrounded by members of the
unit with which they served.
Facing the immediate expecta-
tion of slipping back into the old
life.
The perception that they are seen
as having taken time off to serve.
YOURE GOING AWAY
AGAIN
For the families, the best ap-
proach to coping with deployments
is staying in touch, being flexible
and sheer grit.
If you dont deal with it well,
then youre not going to be a spouse
for very long, said Ann Meyer,
whose husband, Lt. Col. Dave
Meyer, is an F-16 pilot for the S.C.
Air National Guard and veteran of
three deployments since 9/11. Its
just a part of the job that you sign
up for.
Fiona Varners husband, Sgt. 1st
Class Rodney Varner, has spent a
year each in Iraq and Afghanistan
since 2004.
Having five children, going to
college and running a family min-
istry, Fiona Varner said she has to
stay focused on the task at hand.
Ive taught myself to keep mov-
ing forward, regardless, said
Varner of Moncks Corner. Theres
no stagnation.
For Lt. Tony Hedrick of Colum-
bia and his wife, Jennifer, its im-
portant to support each other in
their professional pursuits as well
as raising their two children, ages 8
and 14.
Jennifer is a treasure to me,
said Hedrick, who was an infantry
platoon leader in Afghanistan with
the Guards 218th. Most important,
shes a friend first.
To keep problems on the home
front to a minimum, parents must
be on the same page about how to
raise their children, said Jennifer
Hedrick.
The children know that
Mommy and Daddy always work
together, Jennifer Hedrick said.
They also know Daddy is counting
on us to take care of ourselves.
The days and weeks after ser-
vice members return home can be
the most turbulent as they try to fit
back into family life, researchers
said.
Thats because the spouse who
stayed behind usually has become
more independent, handling all the
jobs of running a household, from
paying bills to getting the car re-
paired.
One of our struggles is always
when I get back Im a wrench in
that routine, and we usually end up
in an argument or two as I try to get
back into being a part of running a
household, said Lt. Col. Meyer of
Columbia.
Rodney Varner said he took oth-
ers advice and tried not to rush
things when he returned from a de-
ployment.
But most of us dont like that
waiting period, he chuckled.
The toughest part for service
members could be before they
leave.
Lt. Col. Meyers unit, the 169th
Fighter Wing at McEntire Joint Na-
tional Guard Base, is scheduled to
deploy early next year to Iraq.
As were already talking about
when were going to leave next, my
13-year-old is showing signs that
shes upset, Meyer said.
Youre going away again,
Meyer quoted his daughter, em-
phasizing again.
That part stinks, he said.
TAKING CARE OF
OUR SOLDIERS
To counter problems faced by
Guardsmen and their families, the
Defense Department launched its
family service program in 2007,
Bowser said.
The program offers counseling
for couples and children, Bowser
said. It also provides financial help
or connects service members with
federal and state agencies that
might be able to resolve issues.
Some 9,000 Guard families have
taken advantage of various services,
said Bowser, a veteran of the
Afghanistan war.
Guardsmen and reservists are at
a disadvantage because they live in
communities across the state and
might not have ready access to ser-
vices offered at military bases,
Bowser said.
His staff includes family life con-
sultants, a child and youth consul-
tant, and a behavioral health spe-
cialist.
The office also has a Red Cross
representative and a Military One
Source consultant, whom troops
and their families can contact with
everything from health insurance to
finding child care.
Were trying to do a better job
of taking care of our soldiers,
Bowser said. A lot of it is educa-
tion because a lot of people dont
know how far we have come in a
short period of time.
Reach Crumbo
at (803) 771-8503.
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FAMILIES
FROMPAGE A1
STRUGGLING
WITH DEPLOYMENT
While deployment affects
each family differently,
researchers say military fami-
lies go through five distinct
emotional stages. The phases
according to excerpts from
a recent report, Impact of
Deployment on Family, pub-
lished by the Department of
Veterans Affairs and National
Center for PTSD are:
PREDEPLOYMENT The
period between notification
of impending deployment of
a military member and actual
departure. It is marked by
psychological denial of the
event, intense preparation,
and anticipation of the de-
parture.
DEPLOYMENT The first
month the military member
is away, the family tries to re-
gain its equilibrium. Feelings
can include numbness, sad-
ness, isolation or abandon-
ment. Other family members
assume some of the absent
members responsibilities.
SUSTAINMENT Stretches
from a month after deploy-
ment to a month before the
service members return.
Most families settle into the
new routine and go about
regular business, using
whatever resources are avail-
able within or outside the
family. Some children might
have a hard time during this
period, rebelling against the
parent at home, resenting the
absent parent or slacking off
on school work.
REDEPLOYMENT Occurs
a month before the service
members return. It is
marked by intense anticipa-
tion, with conflicting emo-
tions and possibly some anx-
iety along with excitement.
POST-DEPLOYMENT Be-
gins after the service mem-
ber returns and the family
tries to swing back into its
old routine. This period
might last several months.
Emotions can range from
great excitement and jubi-
lation at the service mem-
bers return to frustration
and feeling let down due to
unmet unrealistic fantasies
about the reunion.
NEED HELP?
For more information about the
S.C. National Guards Family Ser-
vices Program, call (803) 806-
4200.
9/11: S. C. AND THE WAR ON TERROR
Day of mourning also becomes day of service
Angelo J.
Guglielmo Jr.,
a filmmaker
who became a
9/11 volunteer
in New York
City, plans to
join in the
service
projects
planned for
today.
Some worry that remembrance may give
way to series of volunteer projects
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L
t. Col. Henry Haynes, chap-
lain of the Pentagon, had
just come out of a meeting
about 9 a.m. Sept. 11, 2001,
when someone told him a plane
had crashed into the north tower
of the World Trade Center. He
didnt think too much about it.
But when a second airliner
crashed into the south tower, a
co-worker said, I bet were
next.
About 30 minutes later, the
Pentagon was struck by a plane.
All of the sirens in the huge
building began going off, and
Haynes, now living in Northeast
Richland, ran out of the building
with everyone else and saw the
billowing smoke and the damage
9/11 OUTPOURINGS
OF GENUINE LOVE
Fort Jackson Soldier of the Year Sgt. Chentile Jackson supports the Sept. 11 memorial
wreath while guests lay their hands on it in memory of those who died on 9/11.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY KIM KIM FOSTER-TOBIN/KKFOSTER@THESTATE.COM
Lt. Col. Henry Haynes was chaplain at the Pentagon when it
was attacked on 9/11. SEE 9/11 PAGE A6
Pentagon chaplain who ministered to fallen is at Fort Jackson for memorial
By JEFF WILKINSON
jwilkinson@thestate.com
INSIDE: Analysts describe what form terrorism against America could take in the future, A6
auction this month in New York.
The copy will be part of Swann Auc-
tion Galleries Printed & Manuscript
Americana sale on Sept. 30. The docu-
ments estimated value is
$10,000-$15,000, but the passion for
Civil War items could push its selling
A rare copy of the 1860 Ordinance
of Secession, the document many his-
torians point to as the official start of
the Civil War, will be up for sale at an
price higher, said Rick Stattler,
Swanns director of printed and
manuscript Americana.
These do come up (for auction) oc-
casionally, Stattler said. I can re-
SEE SECESSION PAGE A8
Rare copy of S.C. secession ordinance to be sold
By JOEY HOLLEMAN
jholleman@thestate.com
For 51 weeks of the year,
Trey and Ali Walker have a
perfectly fine marriage.
Theyre a loving, caring
couple with plenty of
shared interests.
But that all changes ev-
ery year for one week in
September, when the col-
lege football border bash
between South Carolina
and Georgia moves into the
middle of their Columbia
home.
Trey, you see, is a 1989
graduate of USC, while Ali
finished at Georgia in 1990.
The Charlotte natives, who
met while working at
Carowinds, dated all
through college, where
they often made trips into
rival territory. But that geo-
graphic divide, and the
rooting interests that went
along with it, didnt stop
them from tying the knot in
1992.
Eighteen year later, the
wedding vows remain
strong, despite being test-
ed for a seven-day stretch
every fall.
Its always been a very
interesting week, Trey
said, mustering the best
diplomatic response that
he can.
Of course, those words
belie the trash-talking that
has already taken place on
their Facebook pages. Ali,
who has a UGa logo as her
profile picture, posted
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
DAWGS!!!!! on Treys wall
in response to Trey, whose
BORDER WAR
CREATES TENSION
By NEIL WHITE
nwhite@thestate.com
SEE BORDER
WAR PAGE A8
On A1: In many South Carolina school districts, it is now
impossible to fail. Thats right: Theres no such thing as an F.
Welcome to the new world of lenient grading.
In Life&Style: Our Fall TV Preview
Coming Sunday
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to the fortress-like structure.
The authorities starting
pouring in from every-
where, said Haynes, who
was the chaplain at Fort Jack-
son from 2007 until he retired
in April. We got a station set
up and started ministering to
people. And the overriding
question was, How could
God let this happen?
Haynes would spend the
next 48 hours on the scene of
the attack. He would spend
the following weeks visiting
the wounded, counseling the
families of victims and at-
tending or conducting more
than 20 funerals, sometimes
more than one a day.
And he would spend each
9/11 since struggling with
that question How could
God let this happen?
God is still with you, even
though evil people do evil
things, he says, and offers
Joshua 1:9: Be strong and of
good courage; be not afraid
even though thou be dis-
mayed, for the Lord thy God
is with thee withersoever
thou goeth.
About 3,000 people were
killed in the attacks on the
World Trade Center and the
Pentagon, and the crash of a
fourth hijacked airliner into a
field in Pennsylvania. Since
9/11, more than 5,600 Ameri-
can service members and
more than 1,100 coalition sol-
diers have died in the subse-
quent wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
The fallen were remem-
bered at a brief wreath-laying
at Fort Jackson on Friday.
Todays soldiers have
earned their place among the
greatest of generations,
Maj. Gen. James Milano, Fort
Jacksons commander, said
during the ceremony. Keep
our soldiers and their fami-
lies in your thoughts and
prayers.
Fort Jacksons present
chaplain, Col. Bart Physioc,
has a personal stake in the
ongoing war on terror that
resulted from 9/11.
A friend, Lt. Col. Karen
Wagner, was killed in the at-
tack on the Pentagon. And
his son, Sgt. Luke Physioc,
who married two days ago, is
deploying next month for Af-
ghanistan with the 10th
Mountain Division. It is his
second deployment.
There are a lot of emo-
tions, said Physioc, who of-
fered the prayer and gave the
benediction at the Fort Jack-
son ceremony:
We remember those who
lost their lives and we want
them vindicated with peace.
Haynes, a Macon, Ga., na-
tive who retired as a colonel,
said there were some posi-
tives that arose from the
tragedy.
By the time I finally got
home after 48 hours, every-
one in my neighborhood
managed to get a flag and put
it on their house, he said.
There were outpourings of
genuine love. Everyones
hearts and minds had a dif-
ferent perspective.
Haynes said that despite
the horrors of the attacks and
the stress of the aftermath,
God gave him the strength
and determination to be of
service to others.
Its was a tough time, he
said. But its amazing the
strength you have when you
need to help others be
strong.
Fire Chief Bill Forrester, MP Director Col. Ronald
Taylor, EMS Chief Theodore Byrd with the wreath
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9/11
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9/11
COMMEMORATIONS
Several events are being
held around the Mid-
lands today to commem-
orate the 9/11 attacks:
FLAGS LOWERED: Gov.
Mark Sanford has asked
that all flags be flown at
half-staff, sunup to sun-
down on Saturday in
honor of those who lost
their lives as a result of
the terrorist attacks.
WREATH LAYING/BEAM
DISPLAY: 10:30 a.m. at
Hyatt Park, 950 Jackson
St. across from the North
Main Plaza, wreath-laying
ceremony and display of
a steel beam from the
World Trade Center
PRAYER GATHERINGS:
Noon at the 9/11 Monu-
ment, adjacent to the
Marc H. Westbrook Judi-
cial Center, 205 E. Main
St. in Lexington, and
noon at the Richland
County Judicial Center,
1701 Main St. in Colum-
bia
REMEMBRANCE: Halftime
of the USC-Georgia foot-
ball game, Williams-Brice
Stadium. Police, fire-
fighters and EMTs will be
recognized and the vic-
tims remembered with a
reading.
COMMUNITY CONCERT: 7
p.m., Patriots Hall, 135
Haynesworth St., Sumter.
Tickets: $5, under 12
free. Info: (803) 773-
1944
ROCK CONCERT: 7 p.m.,
Kid Rock, Hilton Field,
Fort Jackson, 10000 Lee
Road. Tickets: $30 for
civilians. Info: ticketmas-
ter.com
GAINESVILLE, Fla. An asso-
ciate of the pastor who
once planned to burn cop-
ies of the Quran to mark the
9/11 anniversary says the
Rev. Terry Jones headed to
New York aboard a Friday
night flight.
K.A. Paul, a Christian
evangelist who runs a min-
istry out of Houston, says
he bought the ticket for
Jones to fly out of Orlando
and land around 10:15 p.m.
in New York. Paul provided
The Associated Press with
a copy of the itinerary and
flight confirmation
number.
Paul says Jones was able
to sneak out of his Gaines-
ville church without the
media noticing.
Earlier Friday, Jones
son, Luke, said that the
Quran-burning event will
not take place Saturday but
couldnt say whether there
would be a future event.
Luke Jones declined to
comment on his fathers
travel plans.
Pastor
flying to
New York
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON The United
States faces a more home-
grown, hard-to-predict ter-
rorist threat today than it did
nine years ago, and the U.S.
government isnt well-
equipped to understand it, an
expert panel said Friday.
Terrorism today is more
likely to come as small-scale
attacks, such as last Novem-
bers shootings at Fort Hood
military base in Texas, where
agunman killed 13 people, or
the failed attempt May 1to set
off explosives in Times
Square.
Today, America faces a
dynamic threat that has di-
versified to a broad array of
attacks, from shootings to car
bombs to simultaneous sui-
cide attacks to attempted in-
flight bombings of passenger
aircraft, says a 42-page re-
port from the Bipartisan Pol-
icy Centers National Securi-
ty Preparedness Group, a
Washington research group.
Lee Hamilton, a vice chair-
man of the Sept. 11 Commis-
sion, which urged the gov-
ernment six years ago to be
vigilant and nimble, warned
Friday that the new report
shows that the American
people just have to get a more
realistic sense of what theyre
confronted with.
So does the government.
There are a lot of things that
still need to be done to make
our country safer, said Ham-
ilton, a former Indiana Dem-
ocratic congressman who co-
chairs the group that pro-
duced Fridays report.
Last year proved to be a
watershed in domestic ter-
rorist attacks and plots, the
report says.
In the past year alone, it
says, the United States has
seen affluent suburban
Americans and the progeny
of hardworking immigrants
gravitate to terrorism. Per-
sons of color and Caucasians
have done so. Women along
with men. Good students and
well-educated individuals
and high school dropouts and
jailbirds.
The only common denom-
inator, it said, appears to be a
newfound hatred for their na-
tive or adopted country, a de-
gree of dangerous malleabili-
ty and a religious fervor that
they think justifies their
violence.
The group said that al-
Qaida is believed to lack the
capability to launch a mass
casualty attack sufficiently
deadly in scope to reorient
American foreign policy, as
the 9/11 attacks did, but that
its influence remained
substantial.
An Obama administration
spokesman said the govern-
ment well understood the
evolving threat.
This administration has
taken unprecedented and ro-
bust action to counter the
threat of homegrown ex-
tremism, including a new in-
teragency effort that brings
together all key stakeholders,
sustained outreach to com-
munities across the country,
and for the first time ever
inclusion of this challenge
in our National Security
Strategy, said Ben Rhodes,
the deputy national security
adviser for strategic
communications.
Since the 2001 attacks,
lawmakers have created a
new Cabinet-level Depart-
ment of Homeland Security
and revamped the nations in-
telligence apparatus so that a
director of national intelli-
gence coordinates the effort.
Still, the government
needs to do more, the new re-
ports authors said.
Experts say terrorism threat now more homegrown
By DAVID LIGHTMAN
McClatchy Newspapers
From Wire Reports
BAGHDAD Anti-American guer-
rillas attacked the Baghdad hotel
where U.S. Deputy Defense Sec-
retary Paul Wolfowitz was staying
on Sunday with a barrage of rock-
ets, but the Cabinet member sur-
vived the blasts, U.S. officials said.
At least three people were
wounded two of whom were car-
ried away on stretchers said a
journalist at the Rashid Hotel,
where the attack occurred at about
6 a.m. local time (11 p.m. EDT Sat-
urday).
Wolfowitz was unharmed and
led away by security forces, ac-
cording to a U.S. defense official
at the scene. Witnesses said he
looked composed.
A U.S. military spokesman in
Baghdad, Sgt. Danny Martin, said
six to eight rockets hit the Rashid
Hotel on the west side of the build-
ing. He had no word on casualties.
Wolfowitz, a major force be-
hind the Iraq war, was paying his
second visit to Iraq in three
months and stressed the need to
speed up the formation of a new
Iraqi army, police force, border
guard and civil defense corps.
The Rashid hotel is part of a
compound on the west bank of the
Tigris river used by the U.S.-led
administration.
It is in a fortified complex that
includes palaces built by former
leader Saddam Hussein and his
elite troops.
Three rockets fired at the ho-
tel by guerrillas on Sept. 27 hit the
building but no one was wounded.
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USC fans congratulate quarterback Dondrial Pinkins after USCs 35-24 win over Vanderbilt. Pinkins scored three TDs.
Columbias
new city
manager,
Charles
Austin,
delivers his
sermon
Sunday, Oct.
19, at the
Village of
Hope
Fellowship
Church in
Columbia.
USC quarterback Dondrial Pinkins
scored three touchdowns on runs of 6,
5 and 29 yards and Cory Boyd plowed
over from 3 yards out and scored on a
16-yard pass play as the Gamecocks
whipped Vanderbilt 35-24 Saturday at
Williams-Brice Stadium.
USC, 5-3, travels to Mississippi to
take on Eli Manning and the Rebels on
Saturday afternoon. Gamecocks
Clemson beats UNC: Derrick
Hamilton grabbed a 69-yard TD pass
and later put Clemson ahead for good
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U S C C E L E B R AT E S H O ME C O MI N G WI T H A WI N
At least three people are injured in attack
on site where many Americans are based
Austin says faith helped him overcome challenges
Secret database could help
S.C. patients, critics say
F A L L B A C K
Daylight-saving time has ended. Did you forget
to set your clocks back one hour last night?
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
By JOE GUY COLLIER
Staff Writer
South Carolina keeps secret a
storehouse of health data that, con-
sumer advocates say, could tell res-
idents which Palmetto state hos-
pitals are doing a good job and
which ones arent.
Consumer groups say the data
could provide patients invaluable
information about their health care
providers and improve the health
care system. New York, Pennsyl-
vania and Texas already make
data available to their residents
that rate hospital care.
But an S.C. board that oversees
the data says it doesnt paint an ac-
curate picture of hospital quality.
The public wouldnt understand
the data and could be misguided
if given access to it, the board says.
Resolving the issue is important
because consumers make life-and-
death decisions about health care
but have few places to go for de-
tailed information about the qual-
ity of health care providers.
In South Carolina, hospitals
send a record of every case they
handle to a state repository.
These electronic records could
be used to compare hospitals on
procedures ranging from heart
surgery to Caesarean sections. It
could tell people which hospitals
have a higher death rate for pa-
tients undergoing gallbladder re-
moval, for example.
Publicly releasing the data would
help consumers make better deci-
sions and force bad hospitals to im-
prove, said Lisa McGiffert, a senior
policy analyst with the Austin,
Texas, office of Consumers Union,
the nonprofit group that publishes
Consumer Reports magazine.
We believe that unless the
public sees it, hospitals will not
have the incentive to improve,
McGiffert said.
However, the board that con-
trols medical data in South Car-
olina has kept most of the infor-
mation private.
MORE HEALTH NEWS
For updates on Medicare legislation and other related
stories, see Pages A17-22.
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By CHUCK CRUMBO
Staff Writer
FLORENCE On a recent Octo-
ber night, about 40 spouses, sib-
lings and parents of soldiers in the
133rd Military Police Company
gathered at the local armory.
Retired 1st Sgt. Roger Shelley
took orders for fried turkeys that
hell cook for the families Thanks-
giving. Then, the group presented
Shelley with a cake and sang him
Happy Birthday.
When the singing stopped, one
woman asked Shelley, Can I have
my husband home for my birth-
day?
When their loved ones will
come home is the question for the
Florence support group. The 150
men and women of the 133rd, an
S.C. National Guard unit, have
been on active duty for all but four
months during the past two years.
Babies have been born. Birth-
days, holidays and anniversaries
have been missed.
Its been horrible, said
Heather, whose older brother is in
the 133rd.
Hes my best friend, and I re-
ally wanted him here when my son
was born, said Heather, holding
her 2-week-old son, Jayden.
Heather said the hardship is
worse her brothers family. Hes
married and has two children, ages
3 and 15 months. The 3-year-old
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Hawk near Tikrit. See Page A6
S
treams of sweat poured from Charles
Austins temple as Columbias new city
manager thundered encouragement to-
ward the congregation, the sleeves of
his black robe swaying from outstretched arms.
The message today is this, he shouted
down to some 75 people seated on brown fold-
ing chairs in the classroom-sized sanctuary of
the Village of Hope Fellowship Church.
Whether we roar like lions or squeak like
mice, EVERYBODY ... COUNTS.
Typically as soft-spoken as a kindergarten
teacher when he isnt in the pulpit, Austin, 53,
delivered last Sundays sermon in guttural roars
and dramatic whispers as he exhorted the faith-
ful to use their gifts to glorify God.
Austins preaching might surprise those who
have seen him shepherd Columbia City Coun-
cil through meetings during his first eight
months on the job the first seven as interim
city manager. In even tones, he nudges the
elected officials who hired him whenever they
S T ORY BY J OS E P H S . S T R OUD P HOT OGR AP H BY S E AN R AYF OR D
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SPECIALREPORT
The tall, lean, rich mans son
could have spent his life
lounging about Saudi Arabia
in luxury. Instead, Osama bin
Laden chose to kill.
As a young man, he shot at
Soviet invaders in Afghani-
stan. In middle age, he turned
his wrath and far-reaching re-
sources against the United
States the superpower he
saw as spoiler of his home-
lands sacred cities.
By the time of his death, his
was the face of terrorism.
President Barack Obama
announced from the White
House late Sunday that bin
Laden had been killed by a
special operation in Pakistan.
His body is in the custody of
U.S. officials.
This April
1998 file
photo shows
exiled al
Qaida leader
Osama bin
Laden in
Afghanistan.
Bin Laden is
dead and the
U.S. has his
body.
SEE BIN LADEN PAGE S2
President tells nation the worlds most wanted terrorist, al-Qaida leader
Osama bin Laden, has been killed in a U.S. operation in Pakistan
By RICK MONTGOMERY and SCOTT CANON
McClatchy Newspapers
President Barack Obama made a televised statement on the death of Osama bin Laden from the East Room of
the White House in Washington late Sunday.
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Osama bin Laden
Events in the life of Osa-
ma bin Laden and terror-
ist attacks connected to
him:
1957 Born in Saudi
Arabia, 17th of 52
children of Saudi
construction millionaire
1979 Receives civil
engineering degree from
Abdul Aziz University;
goes to Pakistan to meet
CIA-funded anti-Soviet
Afghan guerrillas known
as mujahadeen
1984 Opens base in
Peshawar, Pakistan, for
Arabs arriving to fight
Soviets
1986 Develops Afghan
camps; reportedly takes
part in some battles;
helps build CIA-funded
tunnel complex near
Khost, Afghanistan
1988 Organizes Egyptian
Islamic Jihad, other
militant Muslims to form
al-Qaida (Arabic for the
base) to overthrow
corrupt Muslim
governments
1989 Soviets leave
Afghanistan; bin Laden
returns to Saudi Arabia
1990 Works in family
construction business;
criticizes Saudi
government for inviting
U.S. troops to expel Iraq
from Kuwait
1991 Expelled from Saudi
Arabia for
anti-government
activities; goes to
Afghanistan briefly, then
Sudan
1993 Car bomb at N.Y.
World Trade Center kills
six; Muslim radicals with
bin Laden links later
convicted; 18 U.S. troops
in Somalia killed; Somalis
trained by bin Laden
supporters suspected
1994 U.S. intelligence
says bin Laden financing
terror training camps in
Sudan; Saudi Arabia
revokes bin Ladens
citizenship, seizes assets
1996 At U.S. request,
Sudan expels bin Laden;
he moves to Afghanistan;
car bomb kills 19 at U.S.
military housing in Saudi
Arabia; bin
Laden-financed Taliban
take over Afghan
government
1998 Al-Qaida calls on all
Muslims to confront,
fight and kill Americans
and Britons; bombings
of U.S. embassies in
Kenya and Tanzania kill
220 people; U.S. cruise
missile attack on
al-Qaida headquarters in
Afghanistan
1999 U.S. presses
Taliban to turn over bin
Laden; he is moved to
secret location
2000 Bombing of U.S.
destroyer Cole in Aden,
Yemen, kills 17 sailors
2001 Four bin Laden
followers convicted in
U.S. embassy bombings;
hijackers fly jetliners into
World Trade Center and
Pentagon; U.S., U.K. and
anti-Taliban Afghans
mount air and land
attacks on al-Qaida and
Taliban
2002-03 Broadcast of
video, audio tapes of
person who purportedly
is bin Laden
2003 Suspected
mastermind of Sept. 11
attacks, Khalid Sheikh
Mohammed, arrested in
Pakistan
2004 Madrid train
bombings kill at least
170; Islamic militants
with al-Qaida links
suspected
2005 London
underground bombings
kill 52; authorities link
al-Qaida to attacks
May 1, 2011 President
Barack Obama
announces bin Laden is
dead
TIMELINE
Justice has been done,
the president said.
In the mind of the Ameri-
can public, bin Laden was of-
ten seen as the person whose
sinister creativity resulted in
atrocities committed in the
name of Islamic fanaticism.
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham,
on his Facebook page, said,
This day has been long-
awaited by our nation and all
those who reject terrorism.
This event by no means ends
our fight against al-Qaida,
but it is a decisive moment
helping create momentum
for our cause throughout the
world.
Experts said bin Laden
served more as idol and moti-
vator to militant Muslims
who were convinced that
Americas support of Israel
and its presence in Saudi
Arabia home to the holy
places of Medina and Mecca
demanded bloodshed.
Bin Ladens charismatic
ways, his fortune and his
ability to extract money from
other wealthy Islamic ex-
tremists gave sophistication
and firepower to a terrorism
campaign that had been
lurching from one haphazard
car bombing to the next.
Without bin Laden, the ter-
rorist hijackers may well
have stayed home to wage
their protests, never to imag-
ine unleashing attacks in the
United States.
I was the most optimistic
that destruction and death at
the World Trade Center
would be massive, bin Laden
declared with characteristic
hubris in a videotape.
Once seen by Washington
as a freedom fighter, bin Lad-
en launched the militant or-
ganization al-Qaida during
the Soviet Unions invasion
of Afghanistan. Over the
years, al-Qaida provided
training to as many as 11,000
men who passed through its
terrorist camps in
Afghanistan.
Al-Qaida is now thought to
have secret soldiers in four
dozen countries.
Federal authorities have
implicated bin Laden in some
of the bloodiest crimes of the
past decade: The 1993 bomb-
ing of the World Trade Cen-
ter. The 1998 bombings of
U.S. embassies in Tanzania
and Kenya. The 2000 bomb-
ing of the USS Cole in
Yemen.
As for the Sept. 11 atroci-
ties, the terrorist leader made
clear his satisfaction, if not
his responsibility.
The so-called smoking-
gun videotape of bin Laden
meeting with supporters nev-
er caught him saying outright
that he ordered the attacks.
But, clearly, here was a man
who relished whatever role
he played in the murder of
American civilians.
He boasted with a grin:
We calculated in advance
the number ofenemy who
would be killed.
LEGEND AND REALITY
He was born Osama bin
Muhammad bin Awad bin
Laden in Jiddah, Saudi Ara-
bia. Most accounts placed his
birth in 1957, although he
suggested different years to
different interviewers.
He reportedly was the 17th
of Muhammad bin Ladens
50-plus children. He was also
said to be his Syrian mothers
only child, an indication she
was among the patriarchs
least-favored wives.
Legend had it that Mu-
hammed bin Laden was illit-
erate when he emigrated on
foot from his homeland of Ye-
men to Saudi Arabia. Once
there he slowly cobbled to-
gether a construction busi-
ness that, with the eventual
help of his sons, grew to a $5
billion enterprise.
Osama bin Ladens early
years were comfortable a
far cry from the angry lives of
many young radicals whom
his terrorist camps later
trained. A devout Sunni Mus-
lim, he attended Saudi Arabi-
an schools and studied eco-
nomics and management in
college.
His familys business won
important contracts to re-
build mosques. But being a
younger son, bin Laden did
not figure prominently in the
family hierarchy or its
decision-making.
The 1979 Soviet invasion
of Afghanistan upended
what could have been a life of
ease for the man in his early
20s.
Galvanized by what he saw
as an epic battle between
Muslims and godless com-
munists, he joined the Af-
ghan resistance. He is
thought to have used some of
his familys wealth to import
weapons and to recruit Mus-
lims from Egypt, Turkey,
Lebanon in time, even the
United States.
His fighters were backed
by American and Saudi tax
dollars and advised by the
Central Intelligence Agency.
By the mid-1980s, the guer-
rilla commander had bonded
with the Egyptian Islamic Ji-
had, a terrorist group that
helped to assassinate Presi-
dent Anwar Sadat. One of its
key leaders, Ayman al Za-
wahri, would have a strong
influence and eventually be a
brother-in-arms.
In the late 1980s, bin Laden
began to tell followers of a vi-
sion that had come to him of a
global jihad to be waged by
Muslims around the world.
So evolved al-Qaida, Ara-
bic for the base.
After the Soviet withdraw-
al from Afghanistan in 1989,
bin Laden returned to Saudi
Arabia a hero, working brief-
ly in the family business. A
sought-after speaker, he also
released a quarter-million
cassette tapes that outlined a
new enemy in his sights.
When we buy American
goods, he said in one tape,
we are accomplices in the
murder of Palestinians.
The United States uses that
money to send a billion (dol-
lars) a year to Israel.
His anti-Western rhetoric
intensified in 1990, when
Saudi rulers allowed Ameri-
can military personnel to use
the birthplace of Islam as a
staging ground for the Gulf
War. Bin Laden cast it as a
desecration of a holy site. He
accused the Saudi royal fami-
ly of being as vile as the
Americans.
His radical reading of Qur-
an scripture called for vio-
lence to eradicate from Islam
all traces of secular culture
from pop music to modern
fashions to U.S. soldiers.
Saudi Arabia expelled bin
Laden in 1991 because of his
anti-government activities.
He wound up in Sudan,
which expelled him in 1996
under pressure from Ameri-
can and Saudi diplomats.
HOLY WAR
By this time, American in-
terests were being targeted
by al-Qaida, composed large-
ly of Afghan war veterans.
Bin Laden personally
claimed responsibility for the
deaths of 18 American sol-
diers associated with the
1993 downing of a U.S. Army
helicopter in Somalia.
That same year, a truck
bomb exploded in an under-
ground garage of the World
Trade Center. Investigators
linked bin Laden to a loose
organization of Islamic ex-
tremists recruiting terrorists
in the United States.
What ostensibly had begun
as a battle to liberate Afghan-
istan and Islams three holi-
est places Mecca, Medina
and Jerusalem would soon
become a holy war, a jihad,
against the United States.
Kill the Americans and
plunder their money wherev-
er they find it, bin Laden
wrote in his 1998 fatwa, or
holy decree. He accused
Americans of waging war on
God.
The terrorist leader once
compared jihad against the
Western world to the Af-
ghans successful stand
against the Soviets.
The flag of the Soviet
Union was folded once and
for all because of the Mus-
lim resistance, bin Laden
said. It was thrown in the
wastebasket.
We are certain that we
shall, with the grace of Allah,
prevail over the Americans
and over the Jews.
His own siblings back in
the Saudi construction trade
disowned him.
Some reports suggested he
had financed terrorism using
an inheritance from his fa-
ther. By other accounts, al-
Qaida tapped a variety of
funds from Islamic charities,
African gem miners and Mid-
dle Eastern honey
merchants.
Analysts concluded bin Lad-
en was less the chief executive
of a single organization than an
idea man, the coordinator of a
diffuse movement.
However scattered, the op-
eration was high-tech and
elusive. Al-Qaida embedded
coded messages in innocu-
ous-looking Web sites, stored
bomb recipes on CD-ROMs.
Bin Laden used couriers to
communicate with his agents
face to face. His plotters rare-
ly gave themselves away.
U.S. intelligence officers
for years tried to track the ter-
rorists activities from an of-
fice known as the bin Laden
Room, deep within CIA
headquarters.
He became the interna-
tional poster boy of terror
when American authorities
accused the gaunt,
150-pound man in the 1998
bombings of two U.S. embas-
sies in Africa, in which more
than 250 persons died.
Some experts accused the
Clinton administration of try-
ing to personify faceless terror
by pointing to a known figure
when obscure others were set-
ting off bombs. U.S. lawmakers
resented what they considered
a bogeyman ploy to get them
to appropriate more money for
intelligence.
In 2000 many doubters
were silenced. A bomb-laden
suicide boat bobbing in a Ye-
meni harbor blew a hole in
the USS Cole, killing 17
American sailors. The plot
had bin Ladens fingerprints
all over it, authorities said.
THE BLACK DAY
The Sept. 11 onslaught on
America came three years after
bin Laden warned of a black
day for Americans when we
do not differentiate between
the military and civilians.
With a $25 million bounty
on his head and worldwide
pressure on Islamic nations
to root him out, once friendly
Pakistan, Yemen and Iran
turned their backs. Only Af-
ghanistans ruling Taliban of-
fered safe haven, as it had
since 1996.
Most of the Arab world re-
mained calm amid U.S. mili-
tary strikes on Afghanistan.
Even the most radical Mus-
lim groups backed off their
cheerleading for bin Laden,
figuring his once-heroic stat-
ure was crumbling.
The vast, vast majority of
Muslims in the Middle East find
him to be a despicable charac-
ter, said Wake Forest Universi-
ty religion department chair-
man Charles Kimball, shortly
after the terrorist strikes.
The Associated Press
contributed.
A crowd outside the White House in Washington, D.C., cheers upon hearing the news that terrorist leader Osama bin Laden is dead.
MANUEL BALCE CENETA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
In this file
image,
Osama Bin
Laden, the
al Qaida
leader,
appears on
this layout
for an FBI
poster after
he was
placed on
the FBIs
Ten Most
Wanted list
in June
1999, in
connection
with the
bombings
of the U.S.
Embassies
in Tanzania
and Kenya.
BIN LADEN
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The Fallen But Not Forgotten 9/11 monument in Lexington was adorned with flowers Monday morning after news spread that Osama bin Laden had been killed.
GERRY MELENDEZ/GMELENDEZ@THESTATE.COM
FAR FROM OVER
WASHINGTON After land-
ing by helicopter at the Pa-
kistani compound housing
Osama bin Laden on Sun-
day, the U.S. special opera-
tions team tasked with cap-
turing or killing the al-Qai-
da leader found itself in an
almost continuous gun
battle.
For the next 40 minutes,
the team cleared the two
buildings within the forti-
fied compound in Abbotta-
bad, north of Islamabad,
trying to reach bin Laden
and his family, senior De-
fense Department and intel-
ligence officials said
Monday.
Throughout most of the
40 minutes, they were en-
gaged in a firefight, said a
senior Pentagon official.
Bin Laden resisted and
was killed by U.S. gunfire
shot in the left eye toward
the end of the operation. He
fired on the assault team, a
U.S. official said, and may
have tried to use his wife as
a shield. The woman was
killed.
After the firefight, the
special operations force
quickly gathered papers
valuable intelligence on al-
Qaida, officials said and
INSIDE THE RAID
A 10-year hunt,
a 40-minute mission
By JAMES OLIPHANT
Tribune Washington Bureau
SEE RAID PAGE A4
DEVELOPMENTS: A GOOD DAY FOR AMERICA
The day after: There was praise for the U.S. military
and President Obama, both at home and from
many leaders abroad, following Osama bin Ladens
killing. From Texas, former President George W.
Bush called the mission a momentous achieve-
ment.
Burying bin Laden: Once bin Ladens death was
confirmed, first by facial recognition and then with
a DNA sample, the body was flown to the USS Carl
Vinson and buried in the waters of the North Arabi-
an Sea.
New threats: U.S. citizens are urged to be cautious
at home and abroad, as al-Qaida vows to retaliate.
In the Midlands, Fort Jackson raised its force
protection level Monday and urged motorists and
commuters to allow extra time to enter. Columbia
Metropolitan Airport officials said travelers there
should see little in the way of increased security
procedures, at least for now.
INSIDE AND ONLINE
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S.C. residents who lost loved ones find some
closure. Page A4
New 9/11 memorial planned in Columbia. Page
A4
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We got him!
The news traveled fast
through the Midlands late
Sunday night and early
Monday morning as people
learned about the secretive
U.S. military operation that
killed Osama bin Laden in
Pakistan.
From office banter to
lunch counter conversa-
tions to Facebook status up-
dates, local people ex-
pressed their national pride
that the man behind the
Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist at-
tacks in New York and
Washington, D.C., finally
had met his demise.
Bin Laden is dead. Free
drinks all day, read the
marquee outside Albies, a
locally owned lunch spot on
Hampton Street in Colum-
bia.
Owner Albie Ferullo, who
moved four years ago to Co-
lumbia from Boston, want-
ed to celebrate the occasion
in some small way.
This cuts a little deep for
me, being from the place
where it all originated
from, Ferullo said. I just
like to toast a victory.
The nation learned of bin
Ladens death late Sunday
night, but many people had
IN THE MIDLANDS
Residents celebratory,
but also contemplative
By NOELLE PHILLIPS
nophillips@thestate.com
SEE MIDLANDS PAGE A5
Veterans of the war in Af-
ghanistan expressed satis-
faction on Monday that a
U.S. Navy Seal team had
killed Osama bin Laden,
and former special forces
members praised the team
for a job well done.
But all warned that killing
bin Laden would not end the
threat of terrorism.
Its far from over, said
retired Sgt. Maj. Mike Mika
of Cayce, president of the
S.C. Chapter of the Special
Forces Association. Well
be involved in this type of
conflict for a long, long
time. Now is not the time to
let our guard down. We
were able to get this one
guy. But this is a small step
in the mission to counter
international terrorism.
Retired Maj. Gen. George
Patrick, S.C. deputy secre-
tary of commerce and for-
WHATS AHEAD
Military veterans give
praise, warning
SEE VETERANS PAGE A4
S.C. WAR DEAD
26 members of the
U.S. military with S.C.
ties have died in
Afghanistan; 64 have
died in Iraq.
By JEFF WILKINSON
jwilkinson@thestate.com
South Carolina cheers bin Ladens death but realizes terror war goes on
bin Laden
A4 TUESDAY, MAY 3, 2011 WWW.THESTATE.COM THE STATE, COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA FAR FROM OVER
Staci Smith, a quiet
11-year-old in 2001
when the Twin Towers
fell, was chosen as one
of four student
representatives from
White Knoll Middle
School to go to New York
and present to city
officials a check for a
new firetruck. Students
at the Lexington school
raised nearly $500,000
through car washes,
bake sales and passing
buckets around the
crowd at local high
school football games.
Now a student at
Midlands Tech, studying
to be an X-ray technician,
Smith is still recognized
by people around the
Midlands for her part in
the fundraising effort,
which tied South Carolina
to New York and eased a
bit of the burn from the
national tragedy.
It doesnt happen that
often, since it was 10 years
ago, but every once and a
while someone will ask if
Im that girl who went to
New York, said Smith, 21,
who took the first plane ride
of her life then and
remembers riding on a float
in the Macys Thanksgiving
Parade with then-New York
Mayor Rudy Giuliani and
New York Yankees manager
Joe Torre, the tattered
American flag that flew at
the World Trade Center on
9/11 waving.
Smith said she was
pleased to learn that bin
Laden had been killed
and remains proud to
have been an
ambassador for South
Carolina, making those in
the Palmetto State and
New York feel proud of
the youthful efforts to
help the nation heal and
rebuild.
We were young when
we went on that trip and
really didnt understand
what it was all about but
knew we wanted to
help, Smith said. Now
that were older, we
understand what an
important thing it was
and that we were really
part of an important
thing.
Richland County
Sheriffs Deputy Mohanad
Gabr, the departments
only Arabic-speaking
officer, kept in touch
Monday by telephone
and email with imams
and other Muslim
leaders in the Columbia
area to make sure they
felt secure.
Everybody is pretty
calm, Gabr said. We feel
that bin Laden had been
practically dead for a couple
of years and, hopefully, now
with this announcement
that he is physically dead, it
will give everybody peace of
mind.
Farah Hussain, who
attends the Islamic
Academy of Columbia, a
mosque just off Decker
Boulevard, said there
had been little talk about
bin Laden among her
friends but calls to her
husband were of one
strong opinion: Whoever
called, they were all
saying Thank God, this
is over.
Gov. Nikki Haley
opened Mondays Budget
and Control Board
meeting noting Sundays
news of the death of
Osama bin Laden.
It is a great day to be
an American. It is an
exciting, exciting day,
she said.
After the meeting,
Haley praised the work of
the U.S. military.
REPORTING: Otis R.
Taylor Jr., Carolyn Click,
Gina Smith, Adam
Beam, Joey Holleman
and John OConnor, with
wire and staff reports
HOW MIDLANDS
REACTED
TO THE NEWS
mer Pentagon adviser to the chief of
staff, said that, despite the bin Laden
kill, there should be no slowdown in
the execution of the war.
When you cut off the head of the
snake, its important from a public
perception standpoint, said Pat-
rick, whose oldest son is serving his
eighth deployment in Afghanistan
as an Air Force intelligence officer.
Its good news, but I guarantee you
my oldest is working just as hard to-
day as he did yesterday.
Retired Master Sgt. Johnnie Gra-
ham of Blythewood, a special forces
soldier who worked in command
protective services details in Iraq,
Afghanistan and Pakistan, also
warned against complacency.
In two weeks, the American peo-
ple will forget about bin Laden and
al-Qaida. They have a short atten-
tion span, he said. But for us mil-
itary guys, the events of 9/11are nev-
er-ending. Al-Qaida has one goal,
and that is to destroy our way of
life.
Members of Navy Seal Team Six
and CIA agents dropped into bin
Ladens heavily fortified compound
about 35 miles outside the Pakistani
capital of Islamabad on Sunday, kill-
ing Bin Laden and four others, the
military said. They carried bin Lad-
ens body back with them, identified
it through DNA testing, and buried it
at sea because no country would ac-
cept it, the military said.
Special forces veterans said it was
a well-executed operation, with the
exception of a helicopter that broke
down and was destroyed by the
Seals.
The goal of each mission is that
you get back to fight another day,
said Mika, a Green Beret who fought
in Vietnam. They are the best-
trained guys in the world. The plan-
ning and execution was very
methodical.
The fact that the team went ahead
with the mission even though one
helicopter malfunctioned was an in-
dication of their high training and
motivation, Mika said.
You always plan for something to
go wrong. Anything can happen, he
said. They are taught to think out of
the box on a minutes notice. Its all
in the training.
Retired First Sgt. Tom Vose, who
spent a year in Afghanistan with the
S.C. National Guards 218th Brigade
Combat Team, said he was proud of
the Seals.
It was a hairy operation, he said.
But they did what they were sup-
posed to do.
Bin Ladens death sparked cele-
brations across the nation partic-
ularly in Washington, D.C., and New
York City. But in military circles,
there was little jubilation, just a
sense of satisfaction that a decade-
long objective was finally achieved.
Vose, of Manning, said he was
pleased, but not joyful.
Weve proved to the world you
can run, you can hide, but were go-
ing to get you anyway, he said.
Thats the part that makes me
proud and very satisfied.
VETERANS
FROM PAGE A1
other materials and clambered back
on helicopters, taking bin Ladens
corpse with them.
Before departing, the U.S. team
blew up one of the helicopters, a
Blackhawk, which had experienced
mechanical problems, officials said.
This wasnt an execution, one
U.S. official said. The assessment
going into it was that its highly un-
likely thats hes going to be taken
alive, but if he decided to lay down
his arms, he would have been taken
captive.
Bin Ladens body was taken to the
USS Carl Vinson, an aircraft carrier,
in the northern part of the Arabian
Sea and buried at sea Monday at
around 1 a.m. Eastern time. Penta-
gon officials said the decision to bury
bin Laden at sea was made because
no country was willing to take the
body for burial. But it also seems
clear that the United States wanted
to avoid his being buried on land for
fear that the location could become a
shrine for bin Ladens supporters.
The assault in Pakistan was quick,
brutal, risk-filled and ultimately a
massive success, the product of
months of careful planning and
years of intelligence gathering.
Before learning of the compound
in Abbottabad last August, the U.S.
had had little hard information
about bin Ladens whereabouts for
many years, senior intelligence offi-
cials said Monday.
But after learning the identity of
one of bin Ladens couriers, they
tracked him to the facility, which im-
mediately raised suspicions because
of its elaborate security and relative
luxury compared with the surround-
ing neighborhood, the officials said.
It wasnt until early 2011 that the
intelligence agencies became more
certain that bin Laden might be hid-
ing there, one senior intelligence of-
ficial said. As that confidence grew,
President Barack Obama in March
ordered his national security team to
develop several possible courses of
action for invading the Abbottabad
site, according to senior administra-
tion officials.
On Friday, before traveling to Ala-
bama to survey storm damage, the
president gave the go-ahead for the
team to go in. The original plan was
for the team to go in Saturday, but
because of weather, they changed it
to Sunday.
At 2 p.m. Sunday, Obama met with
his national security team to review
final preparations on the assault. At
3:50 p.m., he learned that bin Laden
had been tentatively identified.
DNA testing would later confirm bin
Ladens identity. But already, some
are questioning whether bin Laden
is dead. Was it really him? How do
we know? Where are the pictures?
U.S. officials are balancing that
skepticism with the sensitivities that
might be inflamed by showing imag-
es they say they have of the dead al-
Qaida leader and video of his burial
at sea.
The Associated Press contributed to
this report.
RAID
FROM PAGE A1
IM STILL IN SHOCK
Dawn Yamashiro of Irmo was
watching TV Sunday night when
her 15-year-old son barged into the
room.
Did you hear
that Osama bin
Laden has been
killed? I saw it on
Facebook! he said.
Yamashiro, who
lost her brother in
the 2001 World
Trade Center at-
tack, went numb.
I think Im still
in shock, Yamashiro said of hear-
ing the news late Sunday night.
She spent Monday thinking about
her older brother and only sibling,
an ambitious computer technician
who worked in Tower One at the
World Trade Center. Brian Warner
left behind a wife, a 3-year-old son
and a daughter, only 8 weeks old.
There was nothing left of him.
Nothing was ever recovered. Noth-
ing for us to bury, Yamashiro said.
To grieve for my brother, I have to
go to New York or grieve within.
Yamashiro is taking comfort that
bin Ladens followers have nothing
left of him either.
Just like with us, they have noth-
ing to remember him by, she said.
Yamashiro is also looking for-
ward to speaking with her mother,
now retired in Florida.
When (9/11) happened, my
mother said she wanted a miracle.
She wanted her son to come home,
Yamashiro said. When that didnt
happen, she said she wanted them
to get the bleep, bleep who did this.
Im so happy she lived to see it
happen.
I THOUGHT THEY WERE
NEVER GOING TO GET HIM
In 2001, Carolyn Halmon, 49, was
looking forward to retiring at Hilton
Head Island, where she and her hus-
band had purchased a vacation
condominium.
Their plan was destroyed Sept.
11, when a hijacked plane hit the
Pentagon near the newly renovated
office where Halmon, an Army bud-
get analyst, worked.
We just waited and waited for
word. But they never found her,
Halmons sister, Rosa Montgomery
of Columbia, said Monday.
Montgomery said she found a lit-
tle solace as she opened up Mon-
days paper to the news that bin
Laden had been killed by U.S.
forces.
The way it was looking, I thought
they were never going to get him,
said Montgomery, a retired state
worker who keeps a photo of her
smiling sister in her den. It brings
comfort they got him. But shes still
gone.
CLOSING A CHAPTER
Nearly 10 years ago, Irmo Fire
Chief Mike Sonefeld stood near
Ground Zero in New York, smoking
a cigar.
For years, a cigar has been his guil-
ty pleasure for stressed moments.
And so he puffed as he watched
the still smoldering rubble, the thick
dust that still covered the streets, the
bulldozers working to clear the man-
gled wreckage of the World Trade
Center towers, the handmade signs
of missing people.
I thought I knew what it would
feel like when I got there, but I
didnt, Sonefeld said Monday.
Walking around with the thick dust
on the pavement. The lights, because
they were working 24 hours a day.
Sundays news of bin Ladens
death has turned Sonefeld reflective.
It at first felt like no big deal. Just
another person. It doesnt change
anything, he said. But then, I start-
ed remembering how it felt back
then in 2001. You were angry with
the person. You wanted him to pay.
Sonefeld may light up a cigar tonight
and think it over some more.
Its nice to close that chapter, So-
nefeld said.
A LONG TIME COMING
Anton Gunn, a former Democratic
state lawmaker who represented
Northeast Richland and President
Obamas regional director for the
U.S. Department of Health and Hu-
man Services, was in tears over the
news of Bin Ladens death.
Gunn said he held bin Laden re-
sponsible for his brothers death
aboard the USS Cole in October
2000 in Yemen. That terrorist attack
killed 17 sailors. Seaman Cherone
Louis Gunn was 22.
I . Tonight has been a long time
coming, Gunn said. I am very, very
glad that we got him. But I want us
to get them all.
SOME CONSOLATION
Rep. Carl Anderson, D-George-
town, lost his only
son and namesake,
Airman First Class
Carl Anderson Jr.,
to a roadside bomb
in Iraq in 2004.
The young man
with big dreams
had just turned 21.
It brings a level
of consolation
knowing that, finally, the person
who was responsible for all of this is
gone, Anderson said Monday of
Osama bin Laden. My hope and
prayer is that our young men and
women can come home. I feel like
were closer to that after today.
The (Charleston) Post and Courier
contributed.
REACTION: REMEMBERING THE VICTIMS
It brings comfort they got him
Warner
Anderson
Two rusted, mangled piec-
es of steel from the ruins of
the World Trade Center will
be featured in a memorial at
the Columbia Metropolitan
Convention Center.
Organizers hope to have
the memorial open by Sept.
11, the 10th anniversary of the
terrorist attacks in New York
that killed nearly 3,000 peo-
ple. But first, they must raise
$175,000 by August to buy 60
tons of granite a task that
could be aided by news that
U.S. forces had killed Osama
Bin Laden, the mastermind
behind the attacks and the
worlds most wanted man.
I think a lot of people had
forgotten about Sept. 11 until
last night (Sunday), said Dan
Dennis, president of the Den-
nis Corporation, which is pro-
viding free engineering work
for the memorial. I think a lot
of people remembered what
happened after the events of
last night.
Dan Hennigan, a retired
U.S. Army officer, secured the
two beams from the Port Au-
thority of New York and New
Jersey. The beams, one 13
1
2
feet and the other 14
1
2 feet,
came from the north tower
and were originally planned
for a memorial in Lexington
County.
But the memorial has been
shifted to the convention cen-
ter because the facility was
paid for in part by Columbia
and Richland and Lexington
counties.
It would be everybodys
memorial in the Midlands,
Hennigan said.
Most of the work for the
memorial is being done for
free, including donations by
L-J Inc., Gregory Electric,
Sun Printing, Pine Press
Printing and the Tyler Ryan
Group. The major cost is for
the granite and landscaping
around the memorial.
Hennigan was born and
raised in Brooklyn. He came
to Lexington County in 2005
after his wifes work trans-
ferred her there. He got the
idea for a Midlands memorial
after organizing a high school
essay contest on the attacks
and taking the winners to
New York. He applied for the
steel beams and was accept-
ed, driving them back from
New York with two local fire-
fighters, an American flag
flapping in the breeze for the
800-mile trip.
The memorial will feature
two 25-foot granite represen-
tations of the two towers, en-
graved with the name of every
Midlands soldier, police offi-
cer, firefighter and emergen-
cy medical service worker
who died while on duty since
Sept. 11, 2001. The steel
beams will connect the two
pillars and cross in the
middle.
I think that memorials
around the world, around the
United States are there so we
can never forget and never
drop our guard, Hennigan
said.
Columbia Mayor Steve
Benjamin said the memorial
is important to help children
understand the importance of
the day and why it should be
remembered.
Benjamin said he spent
Monday explaining to his 6-
year-old daughter who bin
Laden was and what (Sun-
day night) meant to the
world.
This will be an opportuni-
ty to teach children about
what it means to be an Amer-
ican, Benjamin said.
Reach Beam at (803)
386-7038.
9/11 memorial planned at Columbia convention center
By ADAM BEAM
abeam@thestate.com
MEMORIAL PLANS
A memorial featur-
ing two steel beams
taken from the ruins of
the World Trade Center
is planned for the
Columbia Metropolitan
Convention Center.
Organizers need to
raise $175,000 to
purchase the granite
for the memorial. They
hope to have it open
by Sept. 11, the 10th
anniversary of the
attacks. To donate,
visit www.sc
remembers911.com or
mail checks to 6017
St. Andrews Road,
Columbia, SC 29212.
Make the check pay-
able to the Irmo Fire
Foundation Inc.
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World Trade Center that he helped bring back from New York. The beams will be
used in construction of a 9/11 memorial in Columbia.
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gone to bed before the news
broke. They awoke to televi-
sion, radio and Internet cov-
erage of the military
operation.
Elizabeth Renew and
Adam Natili felt compelled
to bring flowers to the Fall-
en But Not Forgotten 9/11
monument on Main Street in
Lexington around midnight
Sunday. They slid mums and
daisies from a Mothers Day
bouquet purchased at Wal-
mart into cracks in the alu-
minum tubing that creates
the bulk of the structure.
Then they sat for hours in
the dark.
Its just amazing that its
taken this long to find bin
Laden, Renew said We just
assumed we were going to
get this guy quickly, and
here it is 10 years later.
Madison Barnett, 19, and
Hampton Cooper, 18, both
USC freshmen, were up late
Sunday finishing end-of-
the-semester papers and
studying for exams when
they started seeing text mes-
sages and Facebook
postings.
For them, Osama bin Lad-
en has been a constant spec-
ter of terror but not always
in the forefront of their
minds.
He was a figure out there
with his beard, the turban on
his head, saying crazy
things, Cooper said. Weve
seen him on TV and known
he was responsible for these
killings from terrorist at-
tacks and this entire war
weve been fighting since I
was in the fourth grade.
Barnett called her father
as soon as she saw the news
on Facebook. Her older
brother is fighting with the
Army in Khost, Afghanistan.
She wanted to know wheth-
er anyone in her family had
heard from him.
We were thinking of the
bad repercussions that
could happen over there,
she said. Were waiting to
hear from him.
Like so many other Mid-
lands residents starting their
workweek, the first words
out of Glenda Queens
mouth as she entered her of-
fice Monday morning was,
Did you hear we got him?
Queen and her co-work-
ers at Charles Piercy State
Farm Insurance off Two
Notch Road spent the morn-
ing dissecting bin Ladens
death. In between calls from
customers reporting week-
end accidents, the office
staff debated possible retali-
ations from bin Ladens sup-
porters, the ongoing war on
terrorism and the impact on
the 2012 election.
Queen, who does not sup-
port President Barack Oba-
ma, predicted the successful
military operation would not
help his re-election chances.
Its a notch on his belt,
she said. But he needs to be
more concerned about other
things oil prices, gas
prices.
Feelings about Obamas
leadership on the military
mission reflected the coun-
trys divided political
discourse.
Catherine Fleming Bruce,
an Obama supporter, saw it
as something to rub in the
faces of Tea Party members
and other critics.
Obama is looking
strong, she said. Last
week, he slapped at Trump,
and now this.
As the day wore on, some
people stepped back from
the jubilation to question
their personal reaction to
the news.
Benjamin Heywood, a 27-
year-old USC graduate stu-
dent, used a quote attributed
to Mark Twain to describe
his feelings.
I have never wished a
man dead, but I have read
some obituaries with great
pleasure, the late American
humorist and author is cred-
ited with saying.
Symbolically, there was a
piece that needed this to
happen to say we are mak-
ing progress as far as U.S.
policy and terrorism, Hey-
wood said. If its a matter of
lets celebrate the death,
we miss an opportunity to
understand whats at the
center of this war on terror.
Reporter Joey Holleman
contributed. Reach Phillips
at (803) 771-8307.
MIDLANDS
FROM PAGE A1
ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan Osama bin Laden
made his final stand in a small Pakistani
city where three army regiments with
thousands of soldiers are based not far
from the capital a location that is in-
creasing suspicions in Washington that
Islamabad may have been sheltering
him.
The U.S. acted alone in Sundays heli-
copter raid, did not inform Pakistan until
it was over and pointedly did not thank
Pakistan at the end of a wildly successful
operation. All this suggests more strain
ahead in a relationship that was already
suffering because of U.S. accusations
that the Pakistanis are supporting Af-
ghan militants and Pakistani anger over
American drone attacks and spy activity.
Pakistani intelligence agencies are
normally very sharp in sniffing out the
presence of foreigners in small cities.
Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Sen-
ate Armed Services Committee, said bin
Ladens location meant Pakistan had a
lot of explaining to do.
I think this tells us once again that un-
fortunately Pakistan at times is playing a
double game, said Sen. Susan Collins,
R-Maine, a member of the Armed Serv-
ices Committee.
A senior Pakistan intelligence official
dismissed speculation that bin Laden
was being protected. We dont explain it.
We just did not know period, he said,
on condition his name not be released to
the media.
Suspicions that Pakistan harbors mil-
itants have been a major source of mis-
trust between the CIA and Pakistans In-
ter-Services Intelligence agency, or ISI
though the two agencies have coopera-
ted in the arrests of al-Qaida leaders
since the Sept. 11, 2001attacks, including
several in towns and cities outside the
border area.
For years, Western intelligence had
said bin Laden was most likely holed up
in a cave along the Pakistan-Afghan bor-
der, a remote region of soaring moun-
tains and thick forests where the Paki-
stan army has little presence. But the
10-year hunt for the worlds most-wanted
man ended in a whitewashed, three-story
house in a middle-class area of Abbotta-
bad, a leafy resort city of 400,000 people
nestled in pine-forested hills less than 35
miles from the national capital,
Islamabad.
The compound, which an Obama ad-
ministration official said was custom-
built to hide someone of significance,
was about a half-mile away from the Ka-
kul Military Academy, one of several mil-
itary installations in the bustling, hill-
ringed town.
Why had Pakistan not spotted he is
living in a nice tourist resort just outside
Islamabad? asked Gareth Price, a re-
searcher at Chatham House think-tank
in London. It seems he was being pro-
tected by Pakistan. If that is the case, this
will be hard for the two sides to carry on
working together. Unless Pakistan can
explain why they didnt know, it makes
relations difficult.
What did
Pakistan know,
and when?
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON An hour after President Ba-
rack Obama announced that Osama bin
Laden was dead, a bulletin flashed across
the country to state and local law enforce-
ment officials, warning them that a sudden-
ly leaderless al-Qaida likely will retaliate
and continue to pursue attacks against the
United States.
The caution from the Department of
Homeland Security in Washington escalat-
ed Monday as national security officials,
terrorism experts and the White House
agreed that future strikes likely could be
triggered from a new power struggle inside
al-Qaida or by some lone wolf or micro-
terrorist plotting in the U.S. to personally
even the score for bin Ladens death.
Around the U.S., airports beefed up in-
spections, mass-transit police heightened
patrols and cities like Los Angeles, New
York and Chicago increased security mea-
sures. Abroad, U.S. embassies and other
foreign facilities were placed on high alert,
and strong admonitions were issued against
U.S. citizens to be careful if traveling or liv-
ing overseas.
In the midnight bulletin to state and local
officials, Washington warned that anything
could happen. Everyone is extremely sen-
sitive to the fact that there will at least be an
attempt for a retaliatory attack, said one
U.S. intelligence official.
Yet officials strongly underscored that al-
Qaida has a tradition of being patient, and is
willing to take its time to make a bigger
splash. With that in mind, the consensus
was that terrorists likely will strike again;
when and where remained unknown.
The enemy is out there, said Sen. Joe
Lieberman, I-Conn., chairman of the Senate
Homeland Security Committee. My own
great concern in the days ahead is a so-
called lone wolf.
Though bin Laden is dead, al-Qaida is
not, CIA Director Leon Panetta told his
agency employees in an early-morning mes-
sage, encouraging them to keep up their
guard. Terrorists almost certainly will at-
tempt to avenge him.
They are a wounded tiger, said White
House counterterrorism adviser John Bren-
nan, acknowledging that al-Qaida will try to
regroup. But they still have life left in
them.
Christine Parthemore, a fellow at the
Center for a New American Security, a non-
partisan research group in Washington,
said terrorists could try to hurt the U.S.
economy and U.S. motorists with some kind
of attack on Middle Eastern gas and crude
oil. Top concerns in the coming months
should include reprisal attacks within Saudi
Arabia, where petroleum infrastructure has
always been targeted, she said.
Frank Cilluffo, who was the White House
homeland security adviser to President
George W. Bush, said U.S. officials are con-
cerned that the next attack could be against
a soft target like a crowded mall or restau-
rant, and the shooter could be an American
who never had to leave the U.S. to link up
with a terrorist organization.
Long before bin Ladens death, al-Qaida
had evolved into a mostly leaderless group
loosely organized via the Internet with self-
declared members acting independently
around the globe. The bin Laden-inspired
freelance militant is a model that could per-
sist long after the leaders death.
A spokesman for al-Qaida in the Arabian
Peninsula, the Yemeni offshoot of the ter-
rorist group, was quoted as calling bin Lad-
ens death a catastrophe. An online mes-
sage board mainly for Iraqi insurgents car-
ried an unsigned statement that exhorted
Muslims to be proud of this man who said
and did, who fought and was killed. Nei-
ther statement could be independently
verified.
Analysts predicted that the al-Qaida
branch in Iraq, which is only informally
linked to the bin Laden network, would con-
tinue to mount bombings and assassination
attempts that have killed not only Ameri-
cans, but also Shiite Muslim clerics as well
as ordinary Iraqis caught in the violence.
Aggressive U.S. and Iraqi military oper-
ations have pushed the insurgents into
pockets outside cities they once terrorized,
but sporadic bombings have continued in
Baghdad and elsewhere, signaling a tena-
cious group of fighters poised to regroup
once U.S. forces withdraw.
McClatchy Newspapers contributed to this
report.
This undated aerial image provided by the CIA shows the Abbottabad compound in Pakistan where American forces killed
Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
CIA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Despite a victory, The enemy is out there
Tribune Washington Bureau