The event of 9/11 was indeed a sad one and the departed ones will continue to be remembered. We can only pray and hope tragedy of this nature and others never happen again.

Welcome back, @infovore. Find below my design submissions. First variation is a portrait mag style. The white space in the footer is meant to accommodate the text titles of each articles as shown below. The text can be placed and designed any way. Pictures can also come in.
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And this is the landscape variation. Just in a bid to balance things up. The bottom right was chosen as the text area. Transparent shape was created to enable it.

I hope you liked it.
https://steemit.com/creativity/@lemmybe/steemmag-cover-design-my-submission