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  • Marines in NYC for Fleet Week visit WTC

    05/27/2005 8:42:30 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 21 replies · 892+ views
    Bakersfield Californian ^ | 5/27/05 | Jenny Holland - AP
    NEW YORK (AP) - Hundreds of troops here for Fleet Week took time off Friday to attend two events to commemorate the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks - one a very public show of strength, the other quiet and private. Almost 300 members of the Marine Corps and the Coast Guard took part in the first event, a three-mile run around lower Manhattan followed by a wreath-laying ceremony beside the former World Trade Center site. As they stood under a cloudless sky at the site of the terrorist strikes, the group let out a shout that reverberated across the 16-acre...