Bases in Europe honor 9/11 victims, war dead
By Steve Mraz, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Friday, September 12, 2008
U.S. servicemembers in Europe took time Thursday to remember those lost in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in the United States, as well as remember those who died overseas in the wars that followed.
On Sept. 11, terrorists hijacked airplanes and crashed them into the Pentagon and New York’s World Trade Center towers. Another hijacked airliner, United Airlines Flight 93, crashed in a Pennsylvania field.
A total of 2,992 people died in the attacks.
On Kaiserslautern’s Panzer Kaserne, soldiers read aloud the names of the more than 4,700 servicemembers who have died in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars since the attacks.
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