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# Anniversary

12 years on: America remembers a day of terror

See: the newspapers from 12 September 2001.

THIS DAY 12 years ago, American citizens were gripped by terror as a number of the nation’s buildings came under attack.

Nearly 3,000 people died at the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Virginia and on a plane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania that day.

The front pages of the next day’s newspapers provide a snapshot of the horrific morning.

12 years on: America remembers a day of terror

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Boston Globe
Chicago Tribune
Detroit Free Press
International Herald Tribune
Kansas City Star
LA Times
Liberation
Miami Herald
New York Daily News
New York Post
New York Times
Seattle Times
SF Examiner
The Times
USA Today
Washington Post

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