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9/11, Ten Years Later: Stories From Home and Abroad

Nation pauses to remember tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001

On Thursday, Wauwatosa Patch brought you the story of the , using a piece of steel from the Twin Towers. Assistant Chief Bill Rice applied to have one of the remnants delivered here.

"I had begun to feel a little dismayed when we waited two years and heard nothing," Rice said. "And during that time, I saw some of the pieces that other departments were getting and, while they're all impressive just because you know what they represent, most were just short, straight pieces of beams.

"I was out when it arrived, and I got a call from a firefighter at the station. 'It's here,' he said, and his voice was so choked up. The moment I saw it, I knew why.

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"It has so much β€” I guess I'd say, character. It seems to speak what happened."

That story and so many others reveal how the events of 9/11 have affected people across the United States and the world.

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At the 10th anniversary, Patch journalists throughout Milwaukee and the entire country are telling those stories. A dazzling photo gallery collecting 911 anecdotes resides on Huffington Post, and a Patch in Western Pennsylvania that are memorialized around the nation. We also invite you to read these in-depth articles from the southeast Wisconsin Patch communities:

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