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-12 posts tagged "9/11"
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
Emily McConville | Monday, September 12, 2016
Notre Dame’s Young Americans for Freedom chapter started early Sunday morning, planting 2,977 American flags on South Quad in memory of the 2,977 people who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001. As they worked, the bell of the Basilica tolled, ending at the moment a hijacked plane struck the South Tower of the World
Nicole Caratas | Monday, September 12, 2016
This year, many students starting their freshman year of high school will be the first class to learn about the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks largely as history, not something they lived through. But for those who witnessed the tragic events 15 years ago, the memories of that day are still very real. Saint Mary’s professor of
Drew Lischke | Friday, September 9, 2016
Starting at 8:46 a.m. Sunday — the time the World Trade Center’s north tower was struck — the Basilica bells will begin ringing; they will continue to ring until 9:03 a.m., the time that the second tower was hit. Sunday marks the 15-year anniversary of 9/11 — 15 years since the biggest attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor. There
April Feng | Thursday, December 3, 2015
On the days of the ISIS attacks in Paris, Beirut and Baghdad, I was in New York, safe from all the bombings and shootings. In the dark subway station in New York City, time went back to Sept. 11, 2001. My mom woke me up from sleep. On the evening news, I saw a plane crashing into
Alex Winegar | Thursday, September 11, 2014
The Saint Mary’s College community gathered Thursday night for a candlelight ceremony to remember those who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001. After an opening prayer and song, senior Kristen Millar read a verse from the book of Lamentations, and then delivered a sermon. “Being in the States it is hard to wrap our heads around