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9/11, Ten Years Later: Stories From Home and Abroad

Nation pauses to remember tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001.

On Thursday, Sussex Patch brought you the story of , a 79-year-old German immigrant who endured 100-degree heat for a week to get his hands dirty laying decorative stone at the new 9/11 memorial at Lisbon Town Hall.

“I spent most of my time here,” Weinhandl said.  “I worked here for 130 hours.  I had 119 hours doing all of the wall’s stone work, and the rest was spent laying the stone on top.”

His story and so many others reveal how the events of 9/11 have affected people across the United States and the world.

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At the 10th anniversary, Patch journalists throughout Milwaukee and the entire country are telling those stories. A dazzling photo gallery collecting 911 anecdotes resides on Huffington Post, and a Patch in Western Pennsylvania that are memorialized around the nation. Sussex Patch also invites you to read these in-depth articles from the southeast Wisconsin Patch communities:

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