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Opinion: The first World Trade Center victims: Honor them

Fifteen years ago today, at 12:18pm, Islamic terrorists detonated 1,500 pounds of explosives in a rental van in the parking garage of the World Trade Center, blasting a crater five stories deep and half-a-football-field wide. The terrorists fled after lighting the bomb's fuse, killing six people, including a pregnant woman, and injuring one thousand others.

The families of the victims will...

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