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Sunday, September 11, 2011

Sister of Flight 93 Victim Promotes National Memorial

Sarah Wainio lost her sister in the Sept. 11 attacks. Ten years later, she keeps her memory alive through a memorial board and Towson University scholarship.

Sarah Wainio's sister is more than a number. Out of the 2,977 who were killed in the Sept. 11 attacks, Wainio remembers a woman who loved life, drank Rolling Rock and took her to the mall. Her sister, Honor Elizabeth Wainio, known as Lizz, was aboard United Flight 93, which crashed in Shanksville, PA. She was 27. Sarah Wainio, a Catonsville resident, was just 14 in 2001. Now 24, she directs fundraising campaigns for Towson University—her sister's alma mater—and sits on the board of Families of Flight 93. The memorial in Shanksville, which was dedicated Saturday, is still not fully funded. (Donations may be directed here.) Wainio worries that some forget Flight 93, which hijackers crashed in a rural Pennsylvania field as passengers fought …

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Piece of World Trade Center Comes to Baltimore

Local firefighters and police officers help escort beam from New York.

Get instant updates on Dundalk news. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. Ken Nacke always looked up to his older brother, Louis. The siblings were very close and it wasn’t unusual for Louis to call Ken at sunrise just because he knew he would be home and he wanted to say hello. Those phone calls stopped on Sept. 11, 2001. Louis Joseph Nacke II was one of 44 people who died on Flight 93, which crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pa. after the passengers and crew tried to take back the plane from four hijackers. “You miss the things that you take for granted like speaking to him everyday,” said Nacke, a Baltimore County police officer who lives in Dundalk. “Now that almost 10 years have passed, it’s a little easier, but you never …

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fiddle mike

1:49 pm on Sunday, July 24, 2011

Your are correct, Robert. They are playing dress-up, they're not bikers, they are lackeys for the military-industrial complex, glorifying a criminal act in order to justify the never-ending war in the Middle East and the continued erosion of the Constitution by the Federal Government.   more ›

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