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On this day in 2011, The News & Observer published a story about the Triangle-area memorials commemorating the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
Then-Chapel Hill resident, Joe Dittmar, was in a meeting on the 105th floor of the north tower of World Trade Center when it began to shake.
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“I saw things that people just shouldn’t see,” Dittmar said at Joy Baptist Church in Chatham County to a silent gathering of 300 people. “Human beings are good, and so many did good that day. I saw bravery, such bravery.”
In 1926, Judge Michael Scheneck gave Charlotte-based “faith healer” the right to continue meetings. “Bishop” Grace, a Black and Portuguese religious figure, was given the order after members of his flock gathered at city hall to appeal to commissioners to allow meetings to continue. Scheneck gave the order while ill at the Charlotte sanatorium, a medical facility specializing in long-term care.
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