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By Kimberly Hefling
ASSOCIATED PRESS
1:00 a.m. October 24, 2005
WASHINGTON – With the nation's attention and charitable giving focused on Hurricane Katrina and other disasters, it could be more difficult for fundraisers to collect the half-billion dollars needed to build memorials at each Sept. 11 crash site.
Fundraisers for the memorials planned at the World Trade Center site in New York City, the Pentagon and near Shanksville, Pa., say they are optimistic they will succeed, but it might take a little longer than planned."
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