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Hundreds gather in Texas for sculpture dedication honoring airline employees killed Sept. 11

On a pedestal in a Texas intersection hundreds of miles (kilometers) from where terrorists crashed planes seven years ago, two flight attendants and two pilots, rendered in bronze, now care for a traveling child.

The sculpture was dedicated Friday, America's Independence Day, to honor the 33 airline crew members killed when terrorists hijacked and crashed two American Airlines flights and two United Airlines flights in the East on Sept. 11, 2001.

Hundreds of guests, many of them relatives of the fallen crew members, gathered in the north Texas heat in Grapevine to listen to bagpipes and patriotic songs, speeches about heroism, and prayers during the ceremony.

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