{"id":209869,"date":"2026-09-08T20:47:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T01:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=209869"},"modified":"2026-09-08T20:47:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T01:47:57","slug":"vw-independent-seeking-9-11-submissions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/09\/08\/vw-independent-seeking-9-11-submissions-2\/","title":{"rendered":"VW independent seeking 9\/11 submissions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This Friday, September 11, will mark 25 years since the horrific attacks on the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the same day a jet crashed into a Pennsylvania field after a passenger revolt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The VW independent<\/em>&nbsp;is asking readers to share memories of that day. While the attacks occurred 25 years ago, the day remains vivid in the minds of many Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Where were you and what were you doing when you first heard about the attacks?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How did you learn about them i.e. radio, TV, word of mouth, etc?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What were your first thoughts?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What do you remember most about that day and the days that followed?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Please feel free to share any other memories you may have.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Please consider sharing your memories with us for a story that will be published this Friday. You may email your memories to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:editor@thevwindependent.com\">editor@thevwindependent.com<\/a>. Please include your name and where you live. Submissions will be accepted until 5 p.m. Thursday, September 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor This Friday, September 11, will mark 25 years since the horrific attacks on the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the same day a jet crashed into a Pennsylvania field after a passenger revolt. The VW independent&nbsp;is asking readers to share memories of that day. While the attacks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-16 02:44:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209870,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209869\/revisions\/209870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}