Thousands of Bath Iron Works rushed out of the shipyard while the Navy base in Brunswick went into high alert and fortified itself. Here is what those working at the base and shipyard experienced.
9/11
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Looking back on fateful first day, teacher says, ‘How it affected people is still palpable’
Caroline Patrie was launching a new career as a teacher on the day of the terrorist attacks. The excitement of her first day was replaced with a feeling of chaos and dread.
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‘It was complete annihilation’: Bath firefighter remembers working at Ground Zero
“What really threw us off was (the towers) were gone,” Michael Clarke, a first responder in the 9/11 attacks, said. “It’s hard to … see New York City on its knees.”
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‘They didn’t know me or what I would do for this country’
Yasin Ahmady, who had come to the United States from Afghanistan 20 years before 9/11, is one of many Muslim Americans who suffered verbal and physical attacks in the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks.
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For sisters of Mainer on doomed flight, ‘It’s the day our family changed forever’
James Roux, a Portland attorney, was on the hijacked plane that crashed into the south tower of the World Trade Center just after 9 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001.
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Soldier from Portland knew that 9/11 attacks would change his life
On Sept. 11, Todd Libby was a cable guy. The events of that day led him to a 20-year career in the military including a tours of duty in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Paintings from the dust of 9/11 found in Sidney will be displayed in Falmouth
Works by late New York artist Michael Mulhern, who witnessed the attacks and later moved the Maine, have emerged from storage.
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Watching 9/11 attacks from classroom sparked social activism
David Morgan, then a senior at Kennebunk High School, looks back on how the day profoundly impacted him.
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20 years later, they’re haunted by their encounters with 9/11 hijackers
Those who crossed paths with two of the World Trade Center terrorists reflect on what happened in Maine in the hours leading up to the worst attacks on American soil.
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Ticket agent struggles with guilt, trauma over two decades
The American Airlines agent who gave two of the 9/11 terrorists their boarding passes from Portland to Boston is haunted by that unthinkable day.