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Casey Lockhard Reflects Twenty Years Later

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Six-year-old Casey Lockard at a candlelight vigil at the First Presbyterian Church in Southampton on September 14, 2001. DANA SHAW

Six-year-old Casey Lockard at a candlelight vigil at the First Presbyterian Church in Southampton on September 14, 2001. DANA SHAW

Casey Lockard, now 26, at the First Presbyterian Church in Southampton on August 30. DANA SHAW

Casey Lockard, now 26, at the First Presbyterian Church in Southampton on August 30. DANA SHAW

authorDana Shaw on Sep 9, 2021
Casey Lockard was just 6 years old on September 11, 2001. Even though she remembers little of what happened on that day 20 years ago, she grew up realizing the... more

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