Thursday Sept. 11: Our World In Pictures
9/11 MEMORIAL OBSERVANCES: Sam Pulia, mayor of Westchester, Ill., and a former police officer of the same town, mourns over the name of his cousin, New York firefighter Thomas Anthony Casoria, who was killed in the South Tower in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, prior to the memorial observances held at the site of the World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 11. This year marks the 13th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people at the World Trade Center, Pentagon and on Flight 93 over Pennsylvania.
FIFTH GRADERS PROMOTE HEALTHY LIVING: Turtle Bay School fifth-graders Mailai Netherton, from left, and Eva Hecht participate in Shasta County Public Health Department’s human billboard event Wednesday at the Sundial Bridge in Redding, Calif. The program encourages people to create and display signs telling how they’ll be healthier.