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9/11 in pictures: A day of eerie quiet, sadness, solidarity

United Airlines crew member Burni Burns looks toward the sky during a memorial service at City Hall Plaza in Boston on Sept. 26. Airline employees – mainly from American and United Airlines – paid tribute to the 22 members of their flight crews who died during the terrorist attack. An estimated 25,000 people attended the memorial.

Sept. 11, 2001, started as a routine day at the office, but turned into the hardest assignment I’ve ever covered – from Boston, where the two planes that hit the World Trade

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