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For most of us, it was to be the last normal day for a long time.

For some - those whose loved ones perished when the jets crashed and the towers came down - it was to be the last normal day forever.

But on Sept. 10, 2001, it was business as usual.

The Yankees were doing well, and even Mets fans had reason for hope. Michael Jordan was going to the Washington Wizards, and Venus and Serena Williams advanced to the U.S. Open final. Venus would win.

Michael Jackson had celebrated the 30th anniversary of his solo career over the weekend with a star-studded concert. He showed up late, of course.

In Washington on Sept. 10, 2001, President George Bush declared war on illiteracy; Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declared war on waste at the Pentagon; …show more content…

On Sept. 10, 2001, wild fires burned in Glacier National Park, Montana; Hurricane Erin was forming in the Atlantic; and the deer population in the Adirondacks was at an all-time high.

The cost of a pay telephone call was going up to 50 cents. A hair from Jimmy Hoffa was found in the car that a long-time friend had been driving 26 years earlier, the day Hoffa disappeared. Cops in Pittsburgh were after a footwear sniffer.

On Sept. 10, 2001, blood banks were running short. American were asked to please, please give blood. As usual, most didn't.

Elsewhere in the world, eight Iraqi civilians had been killed over the weekend by a U.S. and British air strike in southern Iraq. An Arab suicide bomber blew himself up on a crowded train platform in Israel. Israeli helicopters fired missiles into the offices of Yasser Arafat's Fatah party on the West Bank.

On Sept. 10, 2001, eight foreign aid workers pleaded innocent before a Taliban court in Afghanistan to charges of preaching Christianity in that devoutly Muslim country. Muslim-Christian fighting in Nigeria left piles of bodies in the streets of the city of Lagos. Germany opened its new Jewish Museum.

Locally, people were busy shopping despite vague concerns about

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