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Surprise recalls 9/11 tragedy 25 years later

Residents remember personal moments from tragic day

Dilby James Ballesteros was 8,500 miles from New York City on 9/11 when terrorists flew two planes into the World Trade Center in New York, another into the Pentagon outside Washington, D.C., and a fourth into a Pennsylvania field.

But the tragedy almost hit closer than the Whitman resident could have imagined.

Ballesteros was 20 and at his home that evening in the Philippines when the news first broke that New York was under attack.

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