Air Force Academy Cadet 1st Class Austin Nash, left, and Cadet 3rd Class Alexandra Lingle salute during a ceremony marking the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., Sept 11, 2012. Terrorists hijacked four passenger aircraft Sept. 11, 2001. Two of the aircraft were deliberately crashed into the World Trade Center in New York; one was crashed into the Pentagon; the fourth crashed near Shanksville, Pa. Nearly 3,000 people died in the attacks. Raymond McCoy, Air Force

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