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.

‘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.

‘Everything around was chaotic’: Topsham first responder recalls time in the New York Fire Department during 9/11

Twenty years after the tragedies of Sept. 11, Topsham paramedic and firefighter Elizabeth Reeves remembers the colleagues she lost.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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