December 23, 2024
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Mainers terrorist victims

A 38-year-old Mainer is among those on a partial list of names of 190 people who remain unaccounted for after Tuesday’s attack on the Pentagon.

The list names Commander Robert Allan Schlegel, who is identified as being from Gray, Maine.

Elsewhere, Paul Jalbert of Lewiston said his brother from Massachusetts died in one of the planes to hit the World Trade Centers.

Robert Jalbert was a former Marine who settled in Swampscott, Mass., and raised a son and two daughters. He was on his way to Los Angeles on a business trip when the plane was hijacked, his brother said.

A Mass in Robert’s name was planned Thursday at St. Dominic Regional High School, where Robert Jalbert graduated in 1959.

In Lisbon, a foreign-language teacher at Philip W. Sugg Middle School lost both of her parents in one of the plane crashes.

Grace Price, of Portland, was one of the newest teachers at the school, and her parents lived out of state, school officials confirmed.

In Gorham, a family feared the worst for Stephen Ward, who started a job three weeks before the attacks on the 101st floor of the World Trade Center.

He sent an e-mail to his sister at 8:18 a.m. Tuesday, about half an hour before the first plane crashed into one of the towers.

“He told me he’d just found an apartment in the city,” said his sister, Katie Graham, of Portland. “He said, ‘Check up on Mom for me, and I’ll talk to you later.'”


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