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Quarter Century of Compassion
Charity (1997-2005)
Tzu Chi in the USA
1989 – 2014
Love Conquers Hate after 9/11

n September 11, 2001, nineteen New Jersey volunteer Huei-Ju Lin learned that
members of the radical terrorist group some roads to the disaster zone had reopened,
Oal Qaeda hijacked four airliners to carry so she boarded a ferry to Manhattan and
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out attacks on the United States. One airliner walked from 42 Street all the way to Ground
crashed into the Pentagon outside Washington, Zero—a distance of roughly four miles. As only
D.C., two crashed into the Twin Towers of the first responders and medical personnel were
World Trade Center in New York City, and one being allowed in at the time, she was able to
was diverted to crash into the Pennsylvania enter the area with her medical credentials
countryside after passengers resisted the from New Jersey’s Palisades Medical Center.
hijackers. Nearly three thousand people were Experiencing the scorching heat at the ruins of
killed on that tragic day, including more than the towers, she realized that there was a great
four hundred police officers and firefighters. need for bottled water for rescue crews and the

Tzu Chi USA Headquarters established wounded. She quickly called Tzu Chi volunteers
an emergency relief coordination center in New Jersey and New York and asked for their
immediately after the disaster. The next day, help. They then passed the news along to more

Volunteers pay respect to those who
lost their lives on September 11.

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