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-17 posts tagged "9/11"
Ciara Hopkinson | Thursday, September 12, 2019
Though most Notre Dame students are too young to have concrete memories of Sept. 11, 2001, that day remains etched in America’s collective memory as the day that tested and changed, but did not break, the country. On Wednesday evening, the Notre Dame community gathered at the Grotto at 8:46 p.m. — the time marking
Natalie Weber | Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Having lived in New York during their childhoods, sophomores Conor Milligan and Patrick Creaven were both directly impacted by the events of 9/11. Creaven’s dad, who lived in New York at the time, watched the plane fly into the south tower and had friends who were killed in the tragedy. Milligan’s family knew a police
Meagan Bens | Friday, November 16, 2018
Go to YouTube. Search for conspiracy theories. One can spend years sifting through all the videos explaining how the public lives in the dark, oblivious to the truth and inner workings of the world. Search “conspiracy theories moon.” Man landing on the moon in 1969? Fake. It’s been almost five decades since Neil Armstrong made
Lucy Lynch | Wednesday, October 10, 2018
George Mason University professor Ahsan Butt presented “Why did the U.S. invade Iraq in 2003?” to students and faculty Tuesday afternoon in Jenkins and Nanovic Halls. The presentation, named after Butt’s research paper of the same title, was presented by the Notre Dame International Security Center. Butt focused on one of the most commonly acknowledged
Grace McDermott | Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Many Notre Dame students were between the ages of 1 and 5 when the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, occurred. For some, it was one of their first concrete memories. Others were too young to remember the event. To commemorate this day, students and community members gathered at the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes
Michael Ivey | Wednesday, October 25, 2017
On Saturday night, the Houston Astros defeated the New York Yankees in Game 7 of the ALCS and clinched the franchise’s first trip to the World Series since 2005. Beginning Tuesday night, the Astros will play the Los Angeles Dodgers in the best-of-seven Fall Classic for a chance to win their first World Series championship
Tom Naatz | Tuesday, September 12, 2017
On Monday night, community members gathered on South Quad for a memorial service honoring all of those who died in the 9/11 attacks. The service, held on the 16th anniversary of the terrorist attack, took place under the flagpole and began at the symbolic time of 8:46 p.m., 12 hours after the first plane hit the Twin Towers
Tom Naatz | Thursday, January 26, 2017
In a lecture at the Eck Hall of Law, Ambassador David Robinson, assistant secretary and coordinator for reconstruction and stabilization at the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations the United States Department of State, discussed American foreign policy and the country’s role in the world under newly inaugurated President Donald Trump. “About two months ago,
Elizabeth Greason | Tuesday, October 25, 2016
My first real memory — the first thing I know for a fact that I genuinely remember — is watching the twin towers fall. I was four years old at the time and my parents and I lived in London; all of our relatives lived in New York. I begged my mom to change the channel
Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Everybody has a story when it comes to 9/11. For me, I was a high school student at Chaminade High School, approximately 20 miles from downtown Manhattan. The news was devastating as many of my high school classmates lost immediate family: fathers, mothers, siblings, aunts, uncles and cousins. The next couple of days were excruciating