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Published December 07, 2009, 12:00 AM

DECADE'S END: Teddy for an 'angel' (2002)


SEPT. 9, 2002: Cathy Stefani of San Jose, Calif., places a teddy bear next to an "angel" marker for her daughter, Nicole Miller, at a makeshift memorial at the Shanksville, Pa., site of the Sept. 11, 2001 crash site of United Flight 93. Before Flight 93 fell from the sky, this patch of southwestern Pennsylvania was a farmer's field, then a strip mine. Then something happened, something unimaginable and unwelcome, national and global. And this place became a place of memory. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File
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