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Jersey girls
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a small group of women living in New Jersey whose husbands were killed in the World Trade Center on 11th September 2001, and who pressured a reluctant Bush administration into appointing a commission to investigate the attack US
Evocative of an unrelated song by Bruce Springsteen.- The commission grew largely out of pressure from families of victims, including four New Jersey widows who call themselves “the Jersey girls”. — New York Times, p. 43, 22 December 2002
- Kristen Breitweiser, one of the three widows known as “the Jersey girls,” who helped pressure Congress into creating the commission, said the White House’s actions are often at odds with its assurances it is providing the commission with “unprecedent cooperation”. — Chicago Tribune, p. C1, 8 April 2004
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