By ERIK GAVILANES
In the days and weeks after the tragedies of September 11th, the nation felt a collective pall fall over its psyche. Confusion, helplessness, and fear ran through everyone’s heads and hearts at the time, and our thoughts and prayers were with the families of those fallen and the brave men and women that […]
By COURTNEY LEIVA, JILLIAN PARKER and MIKE DRURY
Although she lost no one that September morning, Donna Gaffney remembers the anxiety she felt when she realized that her son who worked in buildings surrounding the World Trade Center, was missing for four hours.
“I was in Michigan when I heard the news, my son worked in one […]
By ERICA BUCHMAN AND JEREMY KELLY
Sept. 11, 2001 began as a normal day, but by early morning, it would become tragic for the nearly 3,000 who perished at the World Trade Center, The Pentagon and a field in Pa. after acts of terrorism. But for those who sat at home anxious for news or those […]
By MEGAN ANDERLE
Kevin Byrne, vice president of Fidelity, a stock brokerage company in Manhattan, spent the hectic morning of Sept. 11, 2001, taking the train out of New York after finding out what happened. It wasn’t until the afternoon that he found out his brother-in-law, William Erwin, who worked at Cantor Fitzgerald in the World […]
By JOE CARLSON
Ten years ago the United States of America was unprepared for the most heinous attack on the country anyone had ever seen. Even more unprepared than the country as a whole were the school systems where many of the countries children spent their days.
America had not experienced a tragedy since the Oklahoma City […]
By MICHAEL DRURY
At this time 10 years ago, the world came to a screeching halt. The Sept. 11th attacks left its mark in Major League Baseball, perhaps more so on the Mets and Yankees. Following the events of 9/11 both teams felt it necessary to help out a city in need. The Yankees erected a […]
By DAN O’LEARY
On Sept. 11, 2001, America fell prey to its worst terrorist attack in history, and a decade later residents in a small New Jersey suburb remembered that tragic day.
Dumont, a town of around 18,000 held two memorials on the tenth anniversary of 9/11, the first Inside the Dumont High School gymnasium bright and […]
By ERICA BUCHMAN
On Sept, 11, 2001, Ramapo College’s bustling second week of new fall semester had ground to halt, unable to take their eyes away from the television screen; smoke was even visible from Route 17.
“People were congregated on the bandshell,” Mercer said. “There was a great deal of alarm and sadness and part of […]