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Published Date:
September 11, 2009
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By Alexander Haimann, Collections Specialist© United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.The National Postal Museum remembers and honors the people employed in the World Trade Center Towers and the Pentagon, the emergency responders, airline passengers and others from all walks of life who were killed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.In 2002, Congress directed the Smithsonian Institution in Public Law 107-117 to "collect and preserve...artifacts relating to the September 11th attacks." A number of postal related artifacts connected to the attacks are in the National Postal Museum’s permanent collection in order to preserve the memory of the victims and that devastating attack on the American homeland.
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