Guam in crosshairs of North Korean nuclear threats

In the first years after the September 11 terror attacks, administrators at Guam's A.B. Won Pat International Airport put up memorial banners to honor members of the military from the island and neighboring US territories who died in Washington's war on terror.

The names have added up -- by the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, the airport installed a digital memorial so they could list them all.

"It became so overwhelming that it took over the entire east ticket lobby and we had no remaining wall space," says Rolenda Faasuamalie, marketing director at the airport. "These are our brothers and our nephews and our sons and sisters."

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