Twenty-five years is long enough for a defining moment to become history — and for an entire generation of Americans…
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Gabriel Dillard 25 years after 9/11, these three stories connect the Central Valley to that day
Clockwise from top left: Todd Beamer, a Fresno State alumnus and passenger aboard United Flight 93; Lt. Cmdr. Otis Vincent Tolbert, a Lemoore native and Fresno State alumnus who was killed in the attack on the Pentagon; former FDNY firefighter Andy Isolano, who responded to the World Trade Center and later made the Central Valley his home; and the California 9/11 Memorial in Clovis.
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