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‘Each day I say a little prayer because of the kids that didn’t make it,’ he said, ‘343 firemen, 227 cops. All gone’
Bob Beckwith, who has died aged 91, had retired from the New York fire service when, on September 11 2001 hijackers crashed aeroplanes into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, killing 2,753 people; the next morning, after hearing that the son of a friend was missing, he donned his old uniform and inveigled his way past the security cordons to Ground Zero to help with the rescue operation.
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A group of talented Otago Polytechnic | Te Pūkenga Design ākonga are preparing to turn Dunedin’s First Church into an Enchanted Wonderland this weekend. Trelise Wadsworth, Thomas Beckwith and Courtney Keith-Bourke are among a wider group of final-year ...
Primary Content Caption Unlike companies like AT&T, Coca-Cola, Marriott, and GE, some of Greene’s largest donors are cheering on her continued false claims that former President Donald Trump won the November election. Credit: Mike Stewart/AP For some Republicans propagating claims the presidential election was stolen, a corporate donation freeze might be a real threat to their future political fortunes. Not so for the most vocal election denier in Georgia’s congressional delegation. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who during her first weeks in Congress has placed herself at the ...