In commemoration of the September 11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans six years ago today, the staff of U.S. News looked at an assortment of 9/11 issues:
* Since the fatal attacks, the country has chosen to commemorate the date in certain ways. The library staff has charted how September 11 has been marked with varying intensity over the past six years.
* As it was among the first catastrophic events to occur in the Internet age, U.S. News's Chris Wilson reported on an effort by George Mason University to preserve E-mails and videos that chronicle the tragedy.
* One of the stranger things to change post-9/11 involved books on religion in prison libraries. Jay Tolson reports on the Bureau of Prisons' going overboard removing these books in an effort to avoid letting prisons become recruitment centers for jihadists or other militant religious zealots.
* Far away from the metropolises of Washington and New York City, the residents of the tiny town of Shanksville in western Pennsylvania continue to come together to keep the public informed about what happened where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed to the ground.
~Nikki Schwab
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