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In Vancouver, BC — thousands of miles from Ground Zero, the Pentagon and a field in Stoneycreek Township — you couldn’t see any outward sign that something unusual had happened on the morning of September 11, 2001. Except for one thing. The sky was empty. Nothing flying in or out of YVR, no contrails far… Continue reading