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May 15, 2012
Who can forget the visceral shock we felt on September 11, 2001 as the world witnessed suicidal terrorists aiming planes at the Twin Towers? Yet next year, for the first time, the 11-year-olds going to secondary school will not have been alive on 9/11.
Just as we must always remember the Holocaust, so this ultimate act of terror must form part of our common memory, even for a generation who did not witness the horror live on television. More.
May 15, 2012
First responders who risked their lives on 9/11 will return to the World Trade Center site May 30 to mark the 10th anniversary of the end of recovery operations at the site, the city announced Tuesday.
Thousands of firefighters, police officers, construction workers and volunteers participated in the eight-and-a-half-month recovery effort, which ended May 30, 2002 with the removal of the “Last Column,” a steel beam covered in tributes to the dead. More.
May 15, 2012
It’s been more than 10 years since Todd Ouida’s death on Sept. 11, 2001, and for the past decade his family has hosted a fundraiser near his birthday in memory of his life. This year, however, Todd’s parents have opted to replace the fundraiser with a seminar on childrens’ mental health issues.
The Todd Ouida Children’s Foundation will host the symposium on Wednesday in conjunction with Montclair State University’s Center for Autism and Early Childhood Mental Health (CAECMH), Children’s Aid and Family Services and West Bergen Mental Healthcare. More.
May 14, 2012
More than a decade after the Twin Towers fell, the toxic dust raised in the collapse continues to sicken New Yorkers – some of whom may not even know the cause of their ailments.
“What we are seeing now is that World Trade Center related diseases continue to manifest themselves, even 11 years later,” said Dr. Benjamin Luft, medical director of the World Trade Center Health Program. “The people who had illnesses immediately after 9/11, many are hard-working people who did not want their ailments to interfere with their jobs. But the diseases continued to progress, and now its gotten to the point where they need help. More.
May 13, 2012
As the case against terror mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed makes its way through a military tribunal, everyone who died at the hands of 19 fanatics will posthumously have their day in court – except one man. There will be no justice for Brooklyn-born Jerry Joseph Borg.
Borg, 63, died on Dec. 15, 2010, of complications from lung disease brought on by the toxic cloud that rose from the destruction of the World Trade Center. The city Medical Examiner’s Office ruled on June 17, 2011, that his slow death was indeed caused by the attacks – making him the 2,977th official victim of 9/11. More.
May 13, 2012
The bronze sphere that used to stand in the World Trade Center plaza before getting moved to Battery Park post-9/11 will be getting a new temporary home while the park undergoes a renovation, the location of which will be revealed next week.
The sphere, which was designed by German sculptor Fritz Koenig, survived September 11 with only minor surface damage, and has since served as something of a memorial to the attacks. Last year, when plans for Battery Park’s construction were originally announced, some families of 9/11 victims petitioned to have the sculpture moved back to the original WTC site, but officials reportedly wanted to keep the area clear of 9/11 artifacts. More.
May 8, 2012
Shortly after Todd Oudia was killed in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, his father, River Edge resident Herbert Ouida, founded the Todd Ouida Children’s Foundation to celebrate his son’s memory and help children suffering from mental illness.
Next week, in collaboration with Montclair State University, the Center for Autism and Early Childhood Mental Health (CAECMH), Children’s Aid and Family Services and West Bergen Mental Healthcare, the foundation will hold the inaugural Todd Ouida Children’s Foundation Annual Conference. More.
May 8, 2012
THE WHEELS of justice began to turn Saturday for the self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and his four co-defendants. Chances are those wheels will not turn quickly enough for families and friends of the nearly 3,000 people who perished in those attacks, but they have begun to turn nonetheless.
Saturday, during the opening hearing of a military tribunal being conducted at Guantanamo Bay, reputed 9/11 ringleader and planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other men refused to make a plea in the case in regard to murder and terrorism charges facing them. Instead, they attempted to make a mockery of the proceedings, at times ignoring the judge and refusing to listen to Arabic translations. More.
May 3, 2012
About 250 kids and kin of men and women killed on 9/11 vied for six courtroom seats. Around the same number of journalists sought to work at Guantanamo this weekend. Senior human rights lawyers swept aside staff attorneys and interns for a three-night stay in a six-bunk tent.
Competition has been fierce to secure a weekend spot at Camp Justice, Guantanamo’s crude war court compound in southeast Cuba where Pentagon prosecutors will once again charge confessed mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four co-defendants with orchestrating the terror attacks by hijacked passenger aircraft on Sept. 11, 2001. More.
April 29, 2012
When President George W. Bush proposed razing Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison in 2004, this American Army judge declared it a crime scene and forbade its demolition. When five years later President Barack Obama asked the Guantanamo war court to freeze all proceedings, the same judge refused the brand-new commander-in-chief’s request.
He’s Col. James L. Pohl, who has appointed himself to preside at the war crimes trial of the five men accused of orchestrating the Sept. 11 attacks. More.
April 28, 2012
Firefighters and cops who raced to the burning World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, 2001, will watch in one room at a Brooklyn Army post, while 9/11 victims will watch from another. Media, family members and members of the public can watch on three separate screens at Fort Meade in Maryland.
For next week’s unusual Saturday military commissions arraignment at Guantanamo of five men accused of orchestrating the Sept. 11 attacks, the Pentagon has put four U.S. military bases into service. More.
April 14, 2012
A cold rain splashed into the block-long reflecting pool and washed over the grassy Field of Chairs. But the weather did not seem to discourage several hundred people from making their pilgrimage to a memorial that recognizes both the worst and best in people.
It was Sept. 12, the day after the 10th anniversary of the terrorists’ attacks on New York and the Pentagon, when I made my pilgrimage to the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum. Until the 9/11 attacks, the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City was the most destructive act of terrorism to occur on American soil. More.
March 30, 2012
In response to this week’s vote by the Science/Technical Advisory Committee, U.S. Reps. Carolyn Maloney, Jerrold Nadler, and Peter King, along with U.S. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles Schumer, the prime sponsors of the Act, sent a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius requesting a meeting to discuss the process of how the Department will proceed with a decision on whether to add certain cancers to the list of covered conditions in the World Trade Center Health Program. More.
March 29, 2012
An advisory medical panel Wednesday recommended more than 30 different kinds of cancers be covered by the Zadroga 9/11 health care act for those injured and sickened by their exposure to Ground Zero toxins.
The panel found there was scientific evidence to justify the covering a range of cancers – from lung and blood to breast, eye and digestive track – among the diseases covered for both medical treatment and disability compensation, officials said. More.
March 28, 2012
A New Jersey hero of 9/11 immortalized in print and song will now be remembered as well by the federal government, with the creation of the Rick Rescorla National Award for Resilience that will be given to civilians who respond extraordinarily to disasters.
Rescorla, a native of England who later served in the U.S. Army and last lived in Morristown, worked in the South Tower of the World Trade Center as head of security for Morgan Stanley. More.
March 28, 2012
Today, the Science/Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) of the World Trade Center Health Program voted to add certain types of cancers for coverage under the program. U.S. Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), and Peter King (R-NY), authors of H.R. 847, the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, lauded today’s real progress toward inclusion of cancers under their legislation and issued the following joint statement:
“As House sponsors of the Zadroga Act, we wholeheartedly applaud the STAC’s recommendation that cancers be covered under our legislation. Scientific evidence finally has caught up with what we’ve long known – that the toxins from the collapse of the World Trade Center towers are linked directly to increased cancer rates among 9/11 responders and survivors. We are hopeful that Dr. Howard will adopt the Committee’s conclusions and officially add cancer to the list of covered conditions.” More.
March 27, 2012
Post-Sept. 11, 2001, measures, including those aimed at making cockpits more secure, could have played a role in ensuring a frightening turn of events aboard a JetBlue airliner didn’t transform into a disaster Tuesday, an aviation security expert said.
But more work is needed, said former Federal Aviation Administration security agent Steve Elson, 66. Passengers said a troubled captain aboard JetBlue Flight 191, bound from New York to Las Vegas, sprinted up the aisle, pounded on a cockpit door and tried unsuccessfully to re-enter by punching a code. Passengers helped subdue the pilot, whose actions forced the plane to make an emergency landing in Amarillo. More.
March 18, 2012
In 2006, when architect Michael Arad redesigned the National 9/11 Memorial, he envisioned friends and family members touching the 2,981 names of the victims and heroes of the Sept. 11 attacks, which would be carved into bronze parapets surrounding waterfalls. When attorneys at the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. reviewed the same plans, they saw a lawsuit in the making.
Their fear, multiple sources said, was that the bronze would retain heat during the summer and burn someone’s hand. In the winter, it might give frostbite to an un-gloved finger. More.
March 12, 2012
Free legal help is on the way for first responders and Downtown residents who became ill after 9/11. Local lawyers and law students will start holding clinics this week to help 9/11 survivors and recovery workers apply for the federal government’s $2.8 billion Victim Compensation Fund.
Under the Zadroga Act, the fund covers medical costs, lost wages and pain and suffering for those who contracted illnesses connected to Ground Zero toxins, including respiratory and digestive problems. The fund does not yet cover cancer, though an expert medical panel voted last month that at least some cancers should be included. More.
March 5, 2012
The number of cancer-stricken New York Police Department (NYPD) employees who worked at Ground Zero after the 9/11 terror attacks is eight percent higher than originally thought.
The revelation comes from city data that Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration refused to reveal for several years. Of nearly 40,000 NYPD officers and civilians who worked at Ground Zero and related sites after the 9/11 attacks, 321 reported having cancer to the police force’s medical division or applied for disability benefits, an increase from the 297 cases documented by the officers’ union. More.
March 5, 2012
Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton, who co-chaired the 9/11 Commission, weighed in Monday on a simmering disagreement in the Senate over the best way to address the nation’s vulnerability to cyberattacks.
The two men, who now run the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Homeland Security project, are calling on senators to take more urgent action on the issue of cybersecurity. They cite recent public statements by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and FBI DIrector Robert Mueller warning that the cyber threat is expected to overshadow other terrorist threats facing the United States in the not-too-distant future. More.
February 16, 2012
The man who smuggled a bomb in his underwear aboard a commercial airliner on Christmas Day in 2009 has been sentenced to life in prison, months after he pleaded guilty for his role in what officials later determined was an al Qaeda plot.
U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds imposed a life sentence Thursday on Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, who entered the courtroom in Detroit wearing an oversized white T-shirt and a white skull cap. His hands were unshackled once he entered. More.
February 7, 2012
Jon Stewart dropped his joking demeanor this week to issue a serious call for health coverage for 9/11 first responders with cancer.
Just weeks before a medical panel will decide if the federal government’s $2.8 billion 9/11 health fund should cover cancer, the “Daily Show” host released a four-and-one-half minute video urging the panel to help all those who are sick. More.
February 6, 2012
The American Journal of Industrial Medicine recently published a study showing responders to the 9/11 World Trade Center disaster suffer from asthma at more than twice the rate of the general U.S. population as a result of their exposure to the toxic dust from the towers’ collapse. Preliminary study results were presented in the journal CHEST in 2009.
Past studies have documented high rates of asthma symptoms among WTC responders. However, a comparison of these increased rates of asthma among responders to the general population had not been done before. More.
February 5, 2012
Ailing Ground Zero responders are finally getting their last checks from a settlement with the city, but many are crestfallen that the payments are less than touted when they took the deal. “We didn’t get what they told us we were going to get,” one put it.
One main reason for the lower-than-expected payouts — the dollar value of each point awarded workers for the type and severity of their illnesses was just recently set at $7.36, a figure based on the money to be divvied up. That is below the $7.50 to $9.19 range first estimated. More.
February 3, 2012
A senior Pentagon official on Friday refused to delay a pre-arraignment phase in the prosecution of five Guantanamo captives accused of conspiring in the Sept. 11 attacks.
Defense lawyers had asked to delay at least until this summer the process of filing memorandum on why the 9/11 trial should not go forward as a capital case. More.
February 3, 2012
Lawyers for two Guantanamo prisoners accused of planning the 9/11 attacks [JURIST backgrounders] asked the Pentagon Thursday to extend the filing deadline for pre-trial motions. There are currently two prisoners requesting extension, and they both cite the recent mail review controversy as to why they have been unable to meet the current deadline.
Navy Cmdr. Walter Ruiz, the lawyer appointed to represent Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsaw,i claims that the new restrictions on legal mail between attorneys and their clients prevented Ruiz from meeting the deadline. More.
January 2, 2012
A dispute over construction costs is delaying the planned opening of the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York on the 11th anniversary of the attacks next year, officials said on Friday.
Arguing over money are the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which is overseeing construction at the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan, and the National September 11 Memorial Foundation, which designed the museum and raised the money to build it. More.
January 2, 2012
Shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, relatives of some of the victims began suspecting that someone was eavesdropping on their telephones.
Some heard mysterious clicking sounds on their home and mobile phones. The fiancee of one man who died at the World Trade Center remembers listening to snippets of someone else’s conversation on her line. A husband of another victim recalls hearing somebody remotely accessing his home answering machine, which still held the final, reassuring message left by his wife shortly before the crash of Flight 93. Others say they are baffled as to how details about their loved ones appeared in British tabloids within days of the attacks. More.
December 30, 2011
Among 9/11 responders at the World Trade Center, the onset of respiratory problems and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) seems to be strongly correlated, with indications that PTSD may lay the groundwork for the development of breathing issues, a new study finds.
“This study illustrates the integral relationship between mental health and physical diseases that WTC responders suffer,” study co-author Dr. Benjamin Luft said in a Stony Brook University Medical Center news release. More.
December 29, 2011
Twins Vincent and Sean Leone of Floral Park stood together, smiling while their uncle, Patrick Cuoco of New Hyde Park, snapped their photograph.
As the 9/11 Memorial in lower Manhattan announced Thursday it had received more than 1 million visitors, the brothers and their uncle were among the thousands at the 8-acre memorial on a recent cold and gray day. The brothers had paused at a corner of the South Pool, one of two acre-size pools with waterfalls set into the footprints of the iconic Twin Towers, which once loomed over the New York landscape. More.
December 29, 2011
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says work on a planned museum at the World Trade Center has ground to a halt because of a money dispute, and there is now “no chance” it will open on time this year.
The museum commemorating the 9/11 attacks is scheduled to open this September on the 11th anniversary of the disaster. But in recent months the foundation that oversees the memorial has been fighting with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey over who is responsible for paying for millions of dollars in infrastructure costs. More.
November 30, 2011
On Monday, the National September 11 Memorial and Museum and the Tribute WTC Visitor Center announced a new partnership to support programming for visitors to the World Trade Center’s memorial site.
The WTC Tribute Visitor Center will provide the 9/11 Memorial and Museum with portraits of all 3,000 victims for a special memorial exhibition to commemorate all of the lives lost in the attacks, and will continue training people directly impacted by 9/11 to lead on-site tours. More.
November 22, 2011
A retired New York City cop who helped people escape from the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 seems to have won his battle over flying a flag commemorating that tragic day’s victims. Richard Wentz had until yesterday to remove the flag from outside the home he rents at the Fairways at Heron Bay in Coral Springs, Fla., or face fines – but he had refused.
According to the regulations of his homeowner’s association, only one flag could be flown at each home, but Wentz has two: One standard American flag and one with the names of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the 9/11 attacks. More.
November 21, 2011
The planned 2012 opening of the Sept. 11 museum at the World Trade Center is in jeopardy amid a dispute over hundreds of millions of dollars in unexpected costs related to redeveloping the site, people familiar with the matter said.
Construction on the sprawling museum has slowed considerably since September, when the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey stopped approving new contracts and extensions of existing contracts, people familiar with the matter said. Its planned September 2012 opening will likely be pushed back, the people said. More.
November 17, 2011
On Tuesday several Senators from the Armed Services Committee reached an agreement on the controversial handling and prosecution of suspected terrorists.
The agreement, struck by Senator Carl Levin (D – Michigan), the chair of the Armed Services Committee, and Senator John McCain (R – Arizona), the ranking member, would allow the military custody of all suspected terrorists except when the administration makes “a national security determination” to keep the detainee in civilian custody. More.
November 16, 2011
The National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum reached a milestone this week, boasting half a million visitors from more than 100 countries worldwide since its grand opening just over two months ago.
While many Downtown residents feel proud to have an international landmark in their backyard, many of them fear of ever-increasing vehicle and pedestrian traffic on the already jam-packed streets of Lower Manhattan. More.
November 15, 2011
First responders who were exposed to the dust cloud during and immediately following the New York City terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, may be at increased risk for heart disease, experts warn.
Those Ground Zero workers who got there first may have breathed in even more of this toxic dust than those who came on the scene after Sept. 13, and may be at greater risk for heart disease as a result, according to new findings slated for presentation Tuesday at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association in Orlando, FL. More.
November 13, 2011
Hundreds of members of the Christ Church of Charlotte heard a special guest recount his life changing experience during their 10am Sunday school. Brian Clark spoke about the day of September 11, 2001 and what his life has been like since 9/11. “I know I was being given help, miracles where happening all around me.” Clark said.
Clark worked at Euro-Brokers three floors above where the second hi-jacked plane struck. He would become only one of four people above the floor where the plane crashed that survived. More.
November 12, 2011
On Nov. 19, 2001, Susan Ainbinder Hutchins received a call saying that her son, Kevin Colbert, who worked at an investment bank on the 89th floor of 2 World Trade Center, had been identified among the ground zero remains.
“I’m thinking, they found my son,” she said, “but the funeral director had a real hard time making eye contact with me. He said, ‘Susan, I don’t know what they told you on the telephone, but we only have his thighbone from his right leg.’” More.
November 11, 2011
Vice President Joe Biden unveiled a statue Friday that honors the U.S. Special Forces’ response to the attacks on 9/11. Its title is “de Oppresso Liber,” which translates to “Free the Oppressed.” It features a soldier on a mountain horse riding into combat in Afghanistan.
“You will not find in all of history a group of men with more courage, with more conviction, with a greater sense of patriotism and more absolute outright damn skill than the men who are being honored by that statue,” said Biden. More.
November 2, 2011
Families of those who died aboard United Airlines Flight 93 are asking lawmakers and Obama administration officials to set aside federal money to complete a 9/11 memorial at the crash site in Pennsylvania.
The dedication of the first phase of the $62 million Flight 93 National Memorial was held in September. The memorial will honor the 40 passengers and crew members who died when the airliner crashed in a field near Shanksville on Sept. 11, 2001. Passengers fought terrorists for control of the hijacked plane that was targeting Washington, D.C. More.
November 1, 2011
The military lawyers for the 9/11 suspects, in what is believed to be an unprecedented legal move, are accusing the Defense Department of sanctioning “practices that are unlawful” that will “effectively stall this case.”
In a letter to the head of detainee affairs obtained by Fox News, military attorneys for the 9/11 suspects, including the self-described architect of the attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, as well as lawyers for other high-value detainees, claim that correspondence between the detainees and their attorneys is routinely opened, read and even confiscated by Defense Department officials. More.
November 1, 2011
They run to forget, and they run to remember. It’s always complicated like that for the family members of the United Airlines Flight 93 victims, never a simple matter of assigning the events of 9/11, or the decade that followed, into some tidy compartment of the mind.
“It’s a puzzle you sometimes want to piece together and sometimes don’t,” said Kiki Homer, the sister of LeRoy Homer, who was co-pilot on the doomed flight that crashed in Shanksville, Pa., after a famous in-air tussle with terrorists. “I like to think my brother fought to the end with everybody else.” More.
October 24, 2011
Last year, you graciously presented me with the Lifetime Achievement Award – I brought it here with me today just in case you want to take it back.
Last year, before this session, Ron Ruecker told me that the IACP had planned to give this award. I remarked that I did not feel old enough to have earned it. To which Ron replied, “Do not underestimate yourself. You are old enough to have earned this award 10 years ago.” More.
October 18, 2011
A decade after the Sept. 11 attacks, Yale students are still discussing their effect on the way minorities are perceived in the United States.
The South Asian Society at Yale, in collaboration with the Yale Chaplain’s Office and two other student groups, held a forum Monday night for reflection on racial profiling in the post-9/11 world as part of a series of University-wide events commemorating the 10-year anniversary of the attacks. The evening’s discussion addressed societal issues that have developed since 9/11, such as racial profiling in airports, and how those policies reveal that discrimination still exists against minority groups. More.
October 17, 2011
Logan also became the first airport to deploy full-body scanners, called advanced imaging technology, on March 8, 2010. The machines detect non-metallic weapons such as explosives that can be hidden beneath a person’s clothing.
The airport’s latest “first” on the security front is to serve as the host to a Transportation Security Administration experiment nicknamed “chat-downs.” The experiment, in which TSA officers try to tease out clues to suspicious or deceptive behavior from travelers before they go through metal detectors. The program is still being tweaked, but could be expanded nationwide. More.
October 17, 2011
The 9/11 Memorial in lower Manhattan was built mostly with private donations. But the non-profit that runs the memorial says tax dollars are needed to maintain it.
The debate over proposed federal legislation that would provide the memorial’s private foundation with $20 million in federal money each year, or about one-third of its operating budget, begins this week with hearings in Washington. More.
October 15, 2011
St. Nicholas Church, destroyed 10 years ago in the Sept. 11 attacks, will be rebuilt near the original site in Manhattan, according to an agreement signed Friday.
The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey agreed to have the church rebuilt at 130 Liberty Street. The construction will also include a nondenominational bereavement center. More.
October 14, 2011
Did not have the force of law according to a copy of the legislation. A Department of Homeland Security authorization bill that passed out of the House Homeland Security Committee Thursday included an amendment calling for allocating D block spectrum for public safety, but it did not have the force of law according to a copy of the legislation.
That should not be a huge surprise given that one of the amendment’s backers was Committee Chair, Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), who is a big backer of allocation over auction of the spectrum, having introduced a bill to that effect. More.
September 30, 2011
On Oct. 4, both the wind orchestra and the symphonic band will have a concert revolving around a specially composed piece commemorating the events of 9/11. Though the 10th anniversary of 9/11 has already passed, the emotion and confusion of that day will surely never be forgotten.
The piece was composed by professor of music theory and composition Dr. Benjamin Boone, who incorporated the thoughts and comments from music students of that tragic day. The wind orchestra will perform this two-part piece called 9/11: Voices Echo, Attack and Aftermath. More.
September 29,2011
Trinity Catholic High School sophomore Carmine DeRubeis was a 5-year-old kindergartner on Sept. 11, 2001.
Ten years later, DeRubeis, now 15, said he remembers hearing about the terrorist attacks after school at his grandmother’s house, where the news was being reported on the television. On Thursday, DeRubeis and his classmates learned about how Sept. 11 has shaped their community and the country from three speakers who directly experienced the events. More.
September 28, 2011
New Canaan High School students heard from some familiar local voices at a symposium about the tenth anniversary of September 11 on Tuesday, Sept. 27. But they also heard some very different perspectives about the events of a day that organizers hoped would bring context to the students.
Mary Fetchet, the Founding Director of Voices of September 11, Wendy Hilboldt, a New Canaan parent, teacher and EMS volunteer and author Bonnie McEneaney were there, and so were Palestinian-American Amer Nimr, the Reverend Nicholas T. Porter, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, and Dr. Marin Strmecki, the Senior Vice President and Director of Programs at the Smith Richardson Foundation in Westport. More.
September 28, 2011
Lit candles marked the way toward remembrance last night during the “Never Forget Candlelight Memorial” on the back lawn of Woodbury Commons-Bunting Cobb on Douglass campus.
The ceremony, organized by the resident assistants and Peer Academic Leaders (PALs) in Woodbury Commons-Bunting Cobb, featured key speaker Ron Miskoff and student speaker Sarah Morrison, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. Morrison brought with her The Scarlet Tribute, a flag comprised of students’ handprints, making its second appearance on campus. More.
September 27, 2011
As a Fayette County Sherriff’s department helicopter hovered overhead and classmates formed a human peace sign, the 189-member Rising Starr Middle School Chorus honored the victims and heroes of 9-11 by singing the Star-Spangled Banner. This tribute was the first in a series of choral performances that will honor our country or memorialize the attacks of September 11th, 2001.
The eighth-grade mixed chorus joined the SMHS combined chorus in singing the National Anthem during the Starr’s Mill home football game last Friday. On Thursday at 7 p.m. the RSMS chorus will join voices with the six SMHS choirs to observe the tenth anniversary of 9-11. More.
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