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A decade after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 stunned the Yesterday, students, faculty and members of the country, people are once again being brought together to Amherst community attended a panel discussion remember the tragedy. composed of University of Massachusetts faculty Today, on the front steps of the Student Union at noon at members and a member of media-giant NPR to look the University of Massachusetts, students and religious lead- back at the social, political and economic effects ers will gather for the “Interfaith Commemoration of Sept. on America and the world since the Sept. 11, 2001 11 … Remembering 9/11, Building Our Future Together,” attacks. sponsored by the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life, According to College of Social and Behavorial the Religious Affairs Committee and the Muslim Students Sciences Dean Robert Feldman - whose college Association. sponsored the event - the two-hour discussion, which “Just to be clear, it is not like a religious service, it is a was called “After the Towers Fell: A September 11th commemoration,” said Larry Goldbaum, the director of the Retrospective,” sought to “reflect on how our lives Office Religious and Spiritual Life. have changed since the 9/11 terrorist attacks.” The event will feature speakers from several religious “I've talked about 9/11 to a lot of people,” said organizations on campus and other organizations, including Steve Fox, a lecturer in the UMass journalism pro- Dean of Students Enku Gelaye; SGA president Yevin Roh; gram and moderator of the event, in a phone interview Director of the Newman Catholic Center Reverend Gary prior to the event. “Everyone's got a different perspec- Dailey; Director of the UMass Hillel House Rabbi Saul tive. There remains to be lessons learned. Ten years Perlmutter; and President of the Muslim Students Association can seem as a long time to some people, and 10 years Noman Khanani. Others will be speaking as well. can be seen as a short time to others.” “The purpose is just to do something very visible to “Much has occurred in the decade since the 9/11 mark the 10th anniversary, but equally important, or even attacks: two wars, military actions, war in Afghanistan more important, is to come together as a community,”said and Iraq,” said Fox in his opening remarks at the dis- Goldbaum. “To look and remember what happened, but take cussion. “Obama was elected president, the U.S. polit- steps to building our future together as a community.” ical system is going along a dangerous divide, news- According to Goldbaum, the event will try to recognize all of papers are shells of their former selves … advances the ways the UMass community was affected by the Sept. 11 in technology will allow anyone with a smart phone CUT WATCH attacks. It is open to all students. to cover news events … the list goes on. There is no On Sept. 11 – this Sunday – the chapel bells are scheduled doubt the world has changed.” to ring out at 8:46 a.m., 9:03 a.m., 9:45 a.m. and 10:10 a.m., According to Fox, those involved with the for- the times that the planes crashed. When that happens, the Air mation of the panel, including Fox himself, wanted Force ROTC will be standing vigil by the flag at Memorial to “a multi-layered perspective” by inviting Hall. Sean Baker, cadet wing commander of the Air Force experts in the fields of psychology, economics, politi- detachment on campus, describes it as “a symbolic show of cal science and journalism. honor and respect.” The panel consisted of MJ Peterson, a professor of “This day isn’t about politics, it’s not about war and it’s not political science; David Kotz, a professor of econom- about religion; this day belongs to those innocents who were ics; Linda Tropp, a professor of psychology; and Mark senselessly killed for living in this country. Our duty is to this Stencel, the managing editor for digital news at NPR. country and its people and that is why we are here to honor The four panel members were allotted 10 to 12 them,” said Baker. minute-presentation slots before the floor was opened Community members are invited to attend the vigil and for questions to the approximately 50 attendees, most pay their respects. of whom were students. In addition to standing vigil, members of the ROTC will Peterson's presentation, titled “9-11 Ten Years travel to New York City later this month to visit the site of the Later: On Global Reactions to U.S. Actions,” dia- Sept. 11 Memorial and see the construction of the new World grammed an analysis of the Bush administration's Trade Center. reaction to the national tragedy. “The World Trade Center is the symbol of the attacks of “Now Americans know what it is like to feel vul- Sept. 11 and it is important to us to pay our respects and honor nerable,” said Peterson of ' government's those who fell on that day,” said Baker. “Though the attack and citizens' thought process immediately after the on the Pentagon and the crash in Pennsylvania are equally as attacks. “The USA is a great power and great powers significant, New York City, due to its location and meaning, don't just roll over - they react.” “But how the United States was going to react seemed right.” alex mojcher/Collegian [had] two possibilities,” she continued. An American flag is draped over a wooded area in Amherst. A number of events will be taking place in See CEREMONIES on page 2 Amherst and at UMass this weekend to remember the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. See PANEL on page 3 Covering the attacks: journalists recount day

By Chris Shores was approaching it from a very Forming a plan “Early on you saw people who the story from as many angles as wondered if the W.E.B. Du Bois Collegian Staff clinical journalistic approach right had no idea what was going on,” we can, because it had all these Library was being protected from away. I wanted to know facts. In the immediate aftermath of said Eldridge. “Why would they? impacts on people, all these sub- a possible terror attack. University of Massachusetts What were we dealing with here?” Flight 11’s impact into the North It wasn’t a time when even texting plots.” Even after learning that classes senior Adam White woke up early Across campus in the base- Tower at 8:46 a.m. and Flight 175 was as popular as it is now. People Wilkinson said that all of the had been cancelled, students stayed on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, and ment of Central’s Brett Hall, Ken crashing into the South Tower were finding this out as they went paper’s writers became “de facto in groups in the campus buildings made his way to campus for his Campbell, a senior and Collegian roughly 17 minutes later, the to class. It was a very stuttered news reporters” that day. He and watching the media coverage of the sports management class on sport assistant news editor, woke up to Collegian office, like virtually and staggered way of this news White assigned topics for every- event. Campbell was among a team and law. The professor walked in the sounds of his computer. everywhere else in America on the unfolding.” one and dispersed them around of reporters assigned to interview and, before beginning his lecture, “I was getting a lot of instant morning of Sept. 11, 2001, was full The University cancelled class- campus. students about their reaction. announced that someone had just messages, it was ‘bing, bing, bing, of frenzied people trying desper- es at 11:15 a.m. By that time, “I felt like a vulture because I crashed a plane into the World bing,’” he said. “The top message ately to reach family and friends. a majority of Collegian reporters Around campus was walking up to these kids who Trade Center in New York. … just said, ‘Turn on CNN.’ I The subsequent events – Flight had found their way down to the were crying watching the footage As the lecture proceeded as it turned on the TV just in time to see 77 impacted into the Pentagon newsroom. As people filled the As news editor Catherine in the Campus Center and all I’d normally would, White wasn’t sure the second plane hit.” at 9:37 a.m. and United Airlines office, wondering what was going Turner walked to Thompson ask was ‘What are you feeling right what to make of the comment. It Campbell’s colleague and Flight 93 crashed 80 miles south- to happen next, Campbell said that Hall to conduct an interview, she now?’” said Campbell. “I literally was only when he made his way friend Scott Eldridge sent him east of Pittsburgh at 10:03 a.m. – Wilkinson suddenly jumped on the couldn’t help but notice how quiet had a kid turn to me and go, ‘I’m through a Campus Center filled another instant message­­. only added to the confusion. couch and erased the large white- the campus was. from New York. What do you think with students silently huddled “He said, ‘What do we do?’ “We were all trying to reach board in the center of the news- “Everything just kind of I’m feeling right now?’” around televisions that he began to and I said, ‘I’ll see you at the our families,” said Campbell. “All room. grounded down to a halt,” she said. “At that point, I felt really low,” realize the gravity of the situation. office in 10 minutes,’” said the phone lines were jammed and “I’ll never forget when we sat “I remember walking around cam- he continued. “I’d been trying to He headed for the basement, the Campbell. “I threw on clothes Internet sites [like CNN] crashed. down and basically had the budget pus in front of the Campus Center put aside my own personal stuff office of the Massachusetts Daily that were there and threw on It couldn’t handle the traffic.” meeting that morning,” said White. and … the whole place was empty. about it, how I felt. When he said Collegian, the college my jacket and ran down to the Managing editor Sam Wilkinson “We huddled up and … shifted You never experience anything like that to me, it all kind of came out. of which he was the acting editor- Campus Center basement.” said that an initial report announced gears. We said, ‘What does this that.” It’s funny because that’s the day in-chief. Eldridge, a sophomore who also that the fourth plane crashed 90 mean to us? What do we do? How The fear on campus could be for me personally as a college jour- “I had no idea about the scale lived in Brett, was on the run too, miles south of Pittsburgh, Pa., the can we best approach this situa- felt, she said. Students wondered nalist that I was at my best and I and I had no idea that there were but he had another thing to con- exact location of his hometown tion?’” at the implications of large military also think it’s the day that I decided subsequent attacks in other loca- sider. As assistant photo editor who where his infant daughter was liv- “Everyone was so focused airplanes flying over the campus. I didn’t want to be a journalist.” tions. I thought it was just an had already been assigned to work ing. He quickly called home and flinging ideas off of each other,” While Turner now believes the Eldridge felt similar feelings as isolated incident,” said White. “At Tuesday, Eldridge quickly gathered confirmed that she was safe. he added. “One of the things we planes were protecting Westover first … I clearly remember saying, his cameras and all the film he could The news spread through cam- decided was let’s mobilize as much Air Force Base in Chicopee, she ‘How many people are dead?’ I find before heading out the door. pus, by word of mouth. of the staff as we can and come at recalled that students at the time See JOURNALISTS on page 2

ARTS & LIVING SPORTS EDITORIAL & OPINION DailyCollegian.com Permanent memorials installed Revisiting Ground Zero Remembering a tragedy View the entire Sept. 12, 2001 Memorials from the three crash sites The PBS documentary “Faith and Doubt Collegian columnists weigh in on issue online have been a destination for those seek- at Ground Zero” analyzes various their memories and reflections of and see a video interview with ing to pay tribute to the victims of the aspects of the terrorist attacks, including Sept. 11. Scott Eldridge, a Collegian Sept. 11 attacks. religious motives. photographer for that paper. SEE PAGE 8 SEE PAGE 6 SEE PAGE 4 2 Friday, September 9, 2011 The Massachusetts Daily Collegian www.DailyCollegian.com www.DailyCollegian.com The Massachusetts Daily Collegian Friday, September 9, 2011 3 The Panel discusses implications in decade after Sept. 11 attacks Massachusetts Muslim students reflect on decade since 9/11 debt the U.S. owes itself,” is approximately $10 tril- PANEL from page 1 Daily Collegian By Nancy Pierce kind of shroud of suspicion.” teachings since Sept. 11. he said, he was kept for hours in a riences. He was born in Pakistan, lion. Of this amount, Kotz said 80 percent of the total Collegian Staff The Council on American- “Muslim mosques don’t seek room filled with people with crimi- but has lived in Massachusetts for accumulated U.S. debt is seen in military costs. CXXI Islamic Relations (CAIR) distrib- out converts,” added Baig. “We nal records. He said that anyone most of his life, and noted that Peterson explained that the administration identified Throughout his presentation, Kotz also talked Issue 4 Ten years ago, America experi- uted a survey in 2004 to gauge like to offer true and clear under- with a Muslim name between the he is a “pretty much full-blown the Sept. 11 attackers as “terrorists, defined terror- about how the “political atmosphere” of “launching enced a surreal terrorist attack on American attitudes towards standings of Muslim faiths [and] ages of 16 and 25 was categorized American.” ists,” giving two options for how to see these terror- a War on Terror contributed to the war on Iraq,” and 113 Campus Center University Muslims. The study revealed that then it’s up to the individual to similarly. Khanani said he himself never ists: as either “criminals or fighting forces.” he explained that a variety of reasons - some seem- of Massachusetts Amherst, one of the nation’s most beloved nearly one in five Americans had decide. We welcome them.” Zakaria noted that he was not had much of any personal experi- According to Peterson, because the government ingly proven to be false, such as the discovery of no MA 01003 cities. It was found to be that al- 413–545–3500 Qaeda, a Sunni Muslim extrem- a strong anti-Muslim attitude, Ahmed Zakaria, a Muslim stu- sharing the experience for pity or ence with negativity surrounding of Afghanistan refused to “arrest and hand over” the weapons of mass destruction - were provided to the Fax 413–545–3699 ist group founded by Osama bin believing Islam to be a faith of dent born and raised in Pakistan sympathy. He said he feels a loss his culture, but, he said, he had “masterminds of 9/11” and the terrorists had “claimed American public to launch a war on Iraq under the www.dailycollegian.com Laden, was responsible for the hatred and violence. The study and a junior marketing major, said of independence and privacy dur- seen such things on television – political reasons” for the attacks, Afghanistan found umbrella of the War on Terror. fatal attacks. concluded these anti-Islam atti- he does not consider any bomber or ing these experiences, but he did which he thought put Islam in a its government “co-responsible” for the attacks. During the question-and-answer session, former Editor in Chief Alyssa Creamer While the group purports to tudes among Americans could be terrorist to be Muslim. say he thinks security does this for dissenting light. Peterson also said this circumstance gave legitimacy U.S. Marine and communications graduate student Managing Editor Chris Shores identify itself with the Islamic reli- due to a lack of accurate informa- “It should not represent Islam, safety purposes and does not blame Khanani said that the Sept. 11 to the war in Afghanistan during that time. Tyler Boudreau said he did not agree that the war Lindsey Davis Managing Web Editor gion, many other Muslims do not tion about Muslims joined with a and is considered a sin,” Zakaria them for doing their job. attacks were disheartening for him Her lecture went on to include information about in Iraq did not logically fall into the War on Terror, Business Manager Matt Zolnierz general fear for personal safety. said of the Sept. 11 attacks. “Yes, I’m still annoyed I have more so as an American and not a the differences in political circumstances surrounding saying that rhetorically their narratives are connected Dan Nott consider al-Qaeda as abiding by Production Manager Naeem Baig, the vice presi- Zakaria, who attended an to go through this,” he said, “but at Muslim. the decision to invade Iraq. inseparably. Boudreau is a published author, whose roduction anager Lauren Vaughn the teachings of Islam. Several P M dent of Islamic Circle of North American school in Pakistan until the end of the day, they’re doing it “I was upset about it … not Peterson said the decision to invade Iraq rested in Night Supervisor Ellie Rulon–Miller spiritual leaders and other par- work includes writings about the experiences he had Advertising Manager Pamela Migalska ticipators of Islam denounce the America, spoke about perceived he arrived in Amherst to study at for my safety also.” because my religion is being put the idea of Iraq being a “prospective but not immedi- while overseas at war in Iraq. Advertising Production Felicia Cohen terrorist attacks and do not con- backlash towards the Muslim com- UMass, said culture shock is still Zakaria said he remembered in a bad perspective, but that ate danger.” Kotz’ lecture concluded with a fact many students Recruiting Manager Ashley Berger sider those responsible to be true munity since the attacks. an issue. He referenced derogatory feeling shocked at how much infor- my country America was being “This got back into old debates of whether preven- in the audience said they were “amazed” or “inter- Arts & Living Editor Ellie Rulon–Miller Muslims. “Islamophobia has become an names that had been lodged against mation the airport security knew attacked,” he said. “I was vulnera- tative war is acceptable, which most [communities] ested” in. He explained that he used official U.S. Blog Editor Alissa Mesibov “Their lives have been industry in America,” said Baig. Muslims, but noted that now he about his family. He said an official ble to a lot of bad things – the safe- say is not acceptable,” she continued. government figures to calculate out that 23.9 million jeff bernstein/collegian Comics Editor Eddy Habib touched – in some ways being “People see that some news media gives it less attention. at an airport once asked him about ty of the country [and] Muslims as Her slides also presented credible polling data on full scholarships (in-state tuition and fees calculated Editorial Editor Max Calloway is willing to offer them air time.” Zakaria also described his per- much of his extended family and well.” A panel yesterday examined the changes in the American landscape since Sept. 11. Pictured are Steve Fox William Perkins vilified – because the perpetra- nations’ negative or positive opinions on one another. as cost of attending UMass) could be given out with News Editor Although Baig said he thought sonal experiences and dealings in if he knew information about how “Muslims who live in the U.S. (left), MJ Peterson, David Kotz, Linda Tropp and Mark Stencel. Sports Editor Jay Asser tors were identified as Muslims,” The data, which gave a trajectory of U.S.'s popularity the $302 billion spent in 2010 as an increase to the Sports Editor Herb Scribner said Larry Goldbaum, the direc- there was increased scrutiny placed certain parts of the U.S. He noted much money they made and where want to be integrated into U.S. since 2005, was used to demonstrate that “great pow- annual pentagon budget. Currently, Kotz said, the Photo Editor Hannah Cohen tor of the Office Religious and on the Muslim community in the that he has been stopped and ques- they were employed. society, not tolerated,” Zakaria ers are constantly being evaluated” and “memories of total number of American college students is at 19 measures in the post-Sept. 11 era reflect our nation's “I think we’ve seen …the ability to tap into all Asst. Business Manager Ozi Sander Spiritual Life at the University aftermath of the attacks, he noted tioned by security every time he Noman Khanani, the president added. 9/11 are not what is [entirely] driving [international] million. priorities. She used New Zealand as a stark contrast these voices throughout the world to see how all these istribution anager Rachel Miller Vogel that there was an apparent increase has ever entered an airport in the of the Muslim Student Association Nancy Pierce can be reached at D M of Massachusetts. “So Muslims attitudes” about the U.S. Tropp lectured on the “basic processes in inter- example, describing how the nation scans suitcases social media tools have been used to work around the Asst. Arts & Living Garth Brody in curiosity and interest in Islamic U.S. During some of those times, at UMass, also recounted his expe- [email protected]. “We are back to international relations as usual,” group relations.” She explained that individuals who Dave Coffey in this country have lived under a not for bombs or weapons, but for food and plants to restrictions of governments,” said Stencel. “ … I think Asst. Arts & Living she said about how perspectives on the U.S. ebb and feel they are in uncertain times tend to want to iden- Asst. Arts & Living Kate Evans ensure it preserves its country's biodiversity. it has added to global discussions, I don’t think it flow. However, her data demonstrated that the U.S.’s tify with groups and seek to protect these groups when Asst. Arts & Living Malea Ritz Stencel presented last with a slideshow titled will change opinions necessarily, but it has increased popularity within the Islamic world was less-than- threatened by protecting a group's access to resources, Assistant Editorial Victoria Knobloch “The 9/11 Convergence: How Events and Technology access to a variety of different sources.” ssistant ditorial Melissa Mahoney Campus unified after attack stellar, and Peterson left the audience with a final slide power and way of life, which often casts conflict A E Transformed the Press.” Stencel called the coverage “One of the most striking images were the photo- Assistant Editorial Kimberly Ovitz displaying a URL to CNN's blog post by Steven Kull towards other groups. Lauren Vincent “It sort of brought back the national tragedy to ‘We’re of the attacks a “classic television story.” Several of copied fliers that wallpapered so much of New York Assistant Editorial JOURNALISTS from page 1 called “Why Muslims Are Still Mad At America.” She said this could be seen in Americans tendency Assistant News Stephen Hewitt a UMass paper and this is the extent of what we can Kotz, who has been teaching since 1974, focused to be “favorably biased” toward themselves while the students in the audience remembered getting their with messages looking for missing loved ones or Assistant News Katie Landeck cover at UMass of the experience here.’” his presentation on the economic effects of the Sept. lumping together other groups, such as those of the information about the attacks entirely from television circulating messages to missing loved ones,” he con- Nancy Pierce he took photos around campus that day. Assistant News Eldridge said that the photo captured the essence 11 attacks. He broke down the “direct costs” of both Arab world or Muslim faith. Additionally, Tropp broadcasts on Sept. 11. tinued. “Can you imagine such an event of magnitude Assistant Sports Steve Levine “I can remember a man leaning against a tree and of UMass that day. the war in Afghanistan and the Iraq war arriving at a talked about an idea that this bias creates questions He also spoke of how technology has shaped the again?” Assistant Sports Michael Wood crying,” he said. “I started feeling a sense of almost “You went through the day and you saw surprise, number totaling to $1.245 trillion. of authenticity in which Americans will ask ‘Who media today. Stencel also touched upon the challenges sur- Assistant Photo Jeff Bernstein violating people’s privacy on that day.” Maria Uminski Kotz’ presentation also provided figures for the is a real American?,’ which “narrow[s] our scope to “We are more a lot of things,” he said. “Are we rounding approaching anniversaries of tragedies such Assistant Photo Eldridge added that he witnessed a true spectrum amazement, wonder, curiosity, anger and sadness … Senior Producer Kevin Romani amount of military spending per person in the U.S., suggest that some people are more American than more accurate? Plenty of people would say 'no.’” as the Sept. 11 attacks. of emotions from the UMass community, culminating you saw all of these things,” he said. “It all wrapped Senior Producer Matt Strong which according to Kotz, is $2,625.64. others,” she said. He also talked about NPR's Twitter error involving Alyssa Creamer can be reached at editor@daily- in a vigil held on the Campus Center lawn. up together in what can best be described as a sense of Senior Producer Rachel Tumin According to Kotz, the total U.S. debt, “minus the She also spoke about how our heightened security the shootings in Tuscon, Ariz. this year. collegian.com. Web Production Tim Jones “Everyone [was] completely opening up and community. Even if that didn’t last, even if that was showing what they felt and banding together,” he something that would later be torn apart by politics The Massachusetts Daily Collegian is published Monday through Friday dur- said. “You never saw anything like that at UMass. or disagreement, at least for a moment people under- ing the University of Massachusetts calen- There was never a reason for it. Even the biggest stood that this was something that no one could go dar semester. The Collegian is independently Remembering the fallen: members of the UMass community funded, operating on advertising revenue. events didn’t look like that and didn’t feel like that.” through alone. That I think is captured in that photo.” Founded in 1890, the paper began as Aggie Life, became the College Signal in 1901, Christoffer Carstanjen Peter P. Hashem ing at his local television station in Newburyport, Mass. An accomplished the Weekly Collegian in 1914 and the Tri– Putting together the paper The aftermath Weekly Collegian in 1956. Published daily Computer Research Specialist at OIT Class of ‘83 singer and improvisational comedy group the Groundlings he lived in since 1967, The Collegian has been Toganga, Calif. since January 1994. For advertising rates and Back in the newsroom, Campbell used pre- White said he has trouble believing that 10 years Carstanjen, 33, was en route to Los Angeles from Boston on United Hashem, 40, was not supposed to be on Flight 11 according to his information, call weekdays between 8:30 a.m. vious contacts to get phone interviews with the “Tom had an engaging personality that spilled over into his work and all and 3:30 p.m. has gone by since that day. Airlines Flight 175, which slammed into the South Tower of the World cousin Saba Hashem. He was supposed to have taken an earlier flight, but that he did, and he made it fun,” said his sister Angela Pecorelli on an online White House, the Navy and other Pentagon sources. had delayed his departure in order to attend his son’s soccer game. He was “I can still remember so much even so clearly,” Trade Center. He had graduated from the University of Massachusetts webpage she made to honor him. Meanwhile, White was busy calling people in New University Without Walls Program in 2000, before taking his job at UMass survived by his wife, Rita; his two sons, Christopher, 11 and Patrick 9; his York for an eyewitness account story. he said. “What is significant to me after all this time Production Crew is the fact that [working on the newspaper] enabled Office of Information Technology (OIT), according to information provided mother and seven siblings. on staff for this issue “I called someone I knew and said, ‘Do you know Hashem worked as a senior software engineering manager at Teradyne, David Ellis Rivers us to kind of detach ourselves … from the fear, from by the UMass News and Information Office. anyone who lived in [the World Trade Center’s] vicin- “Christoffer was a great person, a friend, and a colleague, and he is still Inc. in Boston and lived in Tewksbury. Originally from Lebanon, he moved Class of‘83 Night Editor ity?” said White. “I was put in touch … by another the terror, the sheer catastrophe of the event. It was Herb Scribner remembered, and missed,” said Michael Gilbert, the advisor for technology to the United States in 1970. He was a devoted Maronite Catholic parishio- The editorial director of at Risk Water’s group, David Ellis Rivers was friend of mine [to] someone who … witnessed one of almost like a defense mechanism in that regard.” ner of St. Anthony’s Church and an active member of his community. NIGHT EDITOR initiatives at UMass and a former colleague of Carstanjen, in a brief email working a conference at Windows on the World. After the first plane hit, the planes hitting one of the buildings. He described Wilkinson said that he chose, on that day, to focus “Peter was a terrific co-worker, and I counted his as a friend. He was Chris Shores to the Collegian. he called his wife. He didn’t survive the second crash. He was survived by it as a missile, a high-pitched whining sound.” on the “thing I knew most about.” a gentleman of the old school,” said co-worker Bill Abbot on a memorial web production Carstanjen, a native of Turner Falls who oftentimes was referred to as wife Ricky Vider Rivers and his son James. Courtesy photo White felt the eyewitness story was important to “[We] just clicked into all these things [we] knew “Mr. Wonderful,” planned on traveling to San Diego once he got out west, website. Rachel Tumin After the crash, Ricky was quoted in the New York Times calling her The University community gathered for a candlelight vigil on the include in the paper. how to do for 12 hours,” he said. “Then [I] got home according to an article published in the Collegian in 2004. He then planned Production SUpervisor husband “my soul mate, my best friend, my everything.” The two had been evening of Sept. 11, 2001. “The media coverage was very sporadic that day and all of a sudden it was, ‘Oh my god, what an unbe- on joining a motorcycle ride in the area. Todd Russell Hill Wesley Engvall together since they met at a movie party 18 years before. Three weeks after and trying to write about an event like that that’s hap- lievably horrible day for so many different reasons.’” On his personal Web page, Carstanjen would often post updates on Class of ‘90 pening afar [while] relying on secondhand accounts motorcycles and motorcycle tours. meeting, they had moved in together. Turner now said that the effects of the event Hill, 34, was well known for his smile, jokes and dance moves. An is virtually impossible,” he said. “These were people “The trip up was long, but it looked sooo close on the map,” Carstanjen A memorial service was held at Martha’s Vineyard, a place Rivers had reverberated throughout the semester, both for the account executive at QRS Corp., Hill was on the 17th floor of the World who actually saw and experienced these events them- wrote in one post in 2001 about a gathering of the Ottawa Pacific Coast frequently vacationed at as a child. Collegian staff and collectively for UMass students. Trade Center Marriot when the planes hit. A bachelor, Hill was survived by Local memorials scheduled selves. That’s the most reliable form of reporting you Club motorcycle group. “I mean, just go up on and over Vermont, skim “Our son James, who is five years old, asks ‘Why did Daddy have to “It changed the country fundamentally,” said his mother, Loris; father and two siblings. Every few months, his mother can do.” along the border until I hit Malone, NY and then head for the border. I be there that day?’ And I can’t answer him,” said Ricky in the New York According to Lamb, the idea for the event came from the Turner. “Everyone was really naïve and carefree and still writes a post in the guest book from his funereal CEREMONIES from page 1 As stories were completed, they went through budgeted eight hours and made it in seven.” Times. James is now 15 years old. Young America’s Foundation, an organization that teaches a continuous editing process throughout the day. all of a sudden one morning, we got hit in this tender At UMass, Hill was pre-law and a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha conservative principles. Carstanjen left behind a number of family members and friends at fraternity. He loved UMass basketball, and continued to go to the games Also happening Sunday morning to commemorate the anni- Wilkinson, White and Turner labored over the news- spot. Sheryl Lynn (Rosner) Rosenbaum Later in the afternoon, two ceremonies will be held in UMass. long after he graduated. versary of the attacks is the “9/11 Never Forget Project,” paper’s layout, particularly the front and back pages. “Of course the entire [Collegian] issue had to be class of ‘90 sponsored by the UMass Republican Club and the UMass Amherst. At 12:45 p.m., Amherst Fire Department Chaplain The staff decided on “Tragedy” as the major about it because there wasn’t anything in life that “He had the greatest sense of fun. When he showed up to a party it Geoffrey W. Cloud literally got better: the music seemed louder, the girls became prettier, the Democrats. Bruce Arbour will lead a ceremony on the North Common. headline stretching across the top over a cutout of the didn’t somehow relate to or was affected by the trag- Rosenbaum, 33, of Warren N.J. had followed in her father’s footsteps Class of ‘87 beer grew colder. He was the ‘good’ part of a good time, and his sense of “Although we are political groups on campus, we are Incorporated into the ceremony will be the nationwide New York City skyline. It was a headline that drew ire edy,” she added. “It was like a thick fog that came and become an accountant. A partner at Cantor and Fitzgerald, when she moment of silence requested by Congress, said Amherst humor was legendary,” said fraternity brother and lifetime friend Michael all American and everyone should forget about politics for from some students on campus, said Wilkinson. across, like an airborne pathogen. Everyone caught it. Cloud was on the 105th floor of the World Trade Center when a hijacked told her bosses that she was leaving to start a family, they rearranged her Select Board Chairwoman Stephanie O’Keeffe. Petrocelli in an article for the UMass magazine. a day and remember those who were killed on 9/11 … and “People on campus said it wasn’t a tragedy, it was Everyone was shaken to their core.” plane hit the building. A partner of the Cantor Fitzgerald firm, Cloud, 36, schedule so that she only had to work a four day week and could still be the horrors that unfolded,” said Nathan Lamb, president of A procession of Muslims, Christians, Quaker, Buddhist an attack, and [that] we should have gone for more left behind his wife, Mio; two children, Geoffery and Jaclyn; his parents, part of the firm. She is survived by her husband Mark Rosenbaum, and her Adam White is now an editor and writer for John C. Jenkins the Republican Club. monks and other faiths will start at the Amherst Town violent language,” he said. “I think at the time, in the Peter and Bette; and his siblings, Micheal and Janet. children Hannah and Sam. They were three and 17 months old at the time. a publishing company in northern Vermont. Ken Class of ‘83 For the event, about 300 flags will be placed in the grass Common at 4 p.m. and end at the Grace Episcopal Church context of that day, I’m not sure we concretely knew After graduating from UMass, Cloud went to study law at the According to an article in the New York Times, Rosenbaum spent the Campbell is an assistant principal in Florida. Scott between the Hasbrouck building and the Campus Center at 4:30 p.m. for an interfaith service. enough that it was what it was. I don’t regret that Pennsylvania Law School. He later moved to Stamford, Conn. with his Jenkins, 45, was on AA Flight 11 for a business trip. A corporate office last weekend of her life at her college roommate’s baby shower and at the Eldridge is now a Ph.D student in journalism studies and a moment of silence will be held at 8:46 a.m. to remem- According to a press release from the First Congregational headline.” family. service manager for Charles River Associates, Jenkins was on the trip in the mall with her daughter and 82-year-old grandmother. at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. ber those who lost their lives. The group will then take some Church of Amherst, the service will include reading the The back page, typically reserved for the sports “Geoff was one of the funniest, most witty people I ever met in my place of a coworker, who he has told to stay home. He was survived by his “We always laughed,” said Rosenbaum’s mother of her daughter on a Sam Wilkinson is now a project manager at the West of the flags and walk into Amherst with them. names of some of the victims, sharing prayers and readings section, featured a large photo taken by Eldridge. To life, He had a great personality and was just a wonderful guy. I will mother, Florence Deatherage; and two brothers, James and Jeff. CNN memorial website. “We are doing it to remember and encourage everyone from different faiths and a litany of healing and hope. There get the shot – an aerial one of students gathered at the Virginia University in Morgantown. Catherine Turner never forget him,” said friend Elizabeth McCormak on a CNN memorial Jenkins lived in Cambridge, where his apartment was littered with toast- is now a lawyer in Minnesota. website. to take some time to remember the innocent Americans will, however, be no speeches at that event. vigil – Eldridge climbed a streetlamp, said Campbell. ers, old coffee pots, and every issue of the New York Times Magazine going Jessica Sachs Katie Landeck can be reached at klandeck@student. “That photo is very compelling. There was nothing Chris Shores can be reached at cshores@dailycol- killed on 9/11 and how we felt as a country and as individu- back 20 years. He liked to collect things. Class of ‘01 als on 9/11,” said Lamb. umass.edu. more perfect to go on the back page,” said Wilkinson. legian.com. Tara Creamer “John was a wonderful human being. He always was smiling and only Class of ‘93 said good things about other people. I will miss him. However I know that Less than a year after she graduated from UMass with an account- his spirit will be with all of his friends forever,” said friend Mimi Stark on ing degree, Sachs of Billerica became a victim of Sept. 11 on a business Creamer was on one of her infrequent business trips when American the CNN memorial website. Airlines Flight 11 crashed. A buyer for TJX Companies, she has cut down her trip. She was traveling for her first job out of college as an auditor at business hours a few years before when her son Colin Creamer was born. She Pricewaterhouse Coopers. Thomas Nicholas Pecorelli was survived by her husband and college sweetheart John C. Creamer, daughter Sachs was a part of the accounting honors society, a member of Alpha Class of ‘92 Nora A. Creamer, father James F. Shea, brothers Kevin J. Shea, Brian J. Shea, Beta Psi, Campus Crusade and was a teaching assistant for a management Campus Perspectives class. At graduation, she had completed her goal of landing a job with one sisters Maureen A. Shea, Kellie P. DiFilippo and Elizabeth M. Waldo. Returning from a visit with his father in Boston and a wedding, During their time at UMass, her husband was captain of the football team. Pecorelli, 30, was a passenger aboard AA flight 11 when it crashed. He was of the nation’s top five accounting houses. According to her husband, she never missed a game. Creamer, of Worcester, survived his wife Kia, who was three month pregnant with their first son A devout Southern Baptist, she assisted in founding the Mercy House at Where were you when you first heard the news of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks? was an avid participant in charitable activities such as the American Cancer Nicholas Thomas Pecorelli at the time of the crash, mother, stepfather and UMass. Even after graduation, she never missed a service at her hometown Society and Christmas Relief for the Homeless. four sisters. church. “Her life, in her eyes, was perfect,” said her sister, Liz Waldo on a CNN Pecorelli, a telecommunications major during his time at UMass, “A lot of people today live their lives with a lot of gray area, but for her, memorial website. “She had a tremendous life in her short 30 years. Her smile worked as a cameraman for FOX sports and E! Entertainment Television. it was very black and white,” said her father Stephen Sachs in the Chicago was radiant. It was her most beautiful feature.” Working in television has been his dream since he was 12 years old intern- Tribune. “She was a very determined, very strong young lady.” d

Kyle Landry, grad. student Kevin Thea, freshman Taylor Loughman, soph. Julia McCone, soph. Food science Computer science major Environmental design major Undeclared major “I was in my sophomore year his- “I was in my third grade class in “I was in elementary school, and “I remember my fourth grade teacher tory class in high school. They actu- elementary school. My teachers told the teachers wouldn’t let us know saying something really bad happened ally stopped class and turned the us about some planes that crashed what was going on. I remember my and that she wanted our parents to tell T.V. on and made us watch what was into the towers.” mom picking me up and telling me us about it. I got home from school and going on.” all about it.” remember being in my room and my mom coming in to tell me.”

scott eldridge/collegian file photo Member of the UMass community held a vigil outside of the Student Union on the evening of Sept. 11, 2001. Classes were cancelled for all students in the middle of the day. By Stephen Hewitt and Katie Landeck, Collegian Staff www.DailyCollegian.com www.DailyCollegian.com The Massachusetts Daily Collegian Friday, September 9, 2011 7 8 Friday, September 9, 2011 The Massachusetts Daily Collegian Momentos serve as reminders of attacks By Nicholas Spangler that reminds Fairben of his only child’s daily rou- is a painful reminder of that ripping or wrenching bookmark was on a Sept. 10 reading. “Who Can Newsday tines also reminds him of his murder. of their loved one from them. ... Tragedies keep Fathom Eternity?” was the chapter heading, with a “I curse everybody who was involved,” Fairben people fixed in a moment.” quotation from Ecclesiastes. MELVILLE, N.Y. (MCT) – A black Gillette said. “It’s made me a very bitter, angry person. I So Geraldine Halderman keeps her 40-year-old She and her husband had raised Joseph in the safety razor rests on the bathroom sink at Kenneth hate when people say closure. There is no closure. son David’s answering machine in her Bohemia Presbyterian Church, but a year earlier, her son, an Fairben’s Floral Park home, its blade long-ago When you’ve lost your child, there is no closure. ... basement, having played its messages just twice in investment banker with Sandler O’Neill, had told rusted. The razor has been in the same spot since I hate the people who did this to him.” 10 years. her he was sleeping late Sundays instead of going Sept. 11, 2001, the last morning his son, Keith, For Fairben, the razor is a tie – however tenuous “David, this is Mom. ... Please call me to let me to services and had stopped reading the Bible. used it before walking out the front door to his job – to his son and to better times. know that you’re OK,” Halderman says in the first Anchundia, a religious woman, was shocked when as a paramedic in Manhattan. “It was something that was Keith, using it every message she left for her son, an FDNY firefighter she saw the book, and also elated. Fairben sees it every morning when he shaves; morning,” Fairben says to explain why he will not who lived in Amityville, on the morning of Sept. “It was so wonderful, to know that he had that he sees it every night when he brushes his teeth. He part with this small reminder of his 23-year-old 11. An operator for the deaf calls from California, in his heart,” she said. “It was a beautiful confirma- can’t bring himself to get rid of the razor. son. “It’s just something very tangible that I can relaying two desperate messages from a hearing- tion for me. God was almost preparing him.” It evokes memories and voices: “Hey Keith, can touch in the morning. It’s like having a part of him impaired friend there. In the first, frantic days after the attack, “We you give me a hand?” the father said to the son with me.” A man named Jerry leaves a message that starts didn’t really know if he died,” she said. But even when there was work to be done in the yard. “Hey, Together, father and son painted the family gruffly – “I know you’re probably working your as they posted Joseph’s picture around New York Dad, a bunch of us are going to Great Adventure, house and shoveled the walk in the winters. tail off” – but ends tenderly. “Take care,” he says, City and sought friends and witnesses who might what’s the best way to go?” the son asked when he Together, they volunteered at the Floral Park Fire then, so soft that it’s hard to hear: “Bye-bye.” have seen him, the devotional book was a reminder: was going out with his friends. Department, the father as a chief and the son as an Those voices show the mark her son left on the “I had that sense he would not be found on Earth The things that the survivors of the 2,753 vic- EMT. world, Halderman said. “It’s all the people who anymore, that God took him immediately.” tims of the Sept. 11 World Trade Center attack keep Keith joined as soon as he turned 18, and loved him and were concerned about him. ... It’s Without a body or remains, there was no funeral. to remind themselves of who they lost are myriad Fairben saw a different side to his son. The son who very hard for me to listen to. It’s as if the past 10 There was, instead, a memorial service attended and varied. There are bills, birthday cards, books, had skated through most of high school was now a years never happened.” But she will never erase it. by 700. “We feel the public has to remember,” UMASS Police Department Blood Drive bracelets, coins, driver’s licenses, hats, helmets, young man who finished at the top of his class in “Then it’s gone, it’s really gone. That’s something Anchundia said. “For us, we remember every single paperwork, photographs, record covers, skates, paramedic school, hitting the books with a serious- else that’s now gone.” moment of every day.” wristwatches, an answering machine that still bears ness that “surprised the heck out of us.” ––– Anchundia, whose son Elias died in 2007 when messages left a decade ago that day. ––– For families like the Anchundias of Syosset, a transformer exploded beneath him in Waterbury, In the manner of religious relics, they hold Are the mementos they keep obstacles to mov- something found and cherished can be especially Conn., donated the book to the September 11 many meanings. They are mundane and disposable ing on with life and letting go of the past? Or do comforting when there are no remains to bury, no Memorial and Museum. She purchased dozens but irreplaceable and cherished. They are artifacts they help in mourning? cemetery to visit. That’s true of about 40 percent of more for her family and friends. She misses her of late 20th-century American life and of a his- “That item brings them back to a time before all those who died on Sept. 11. son – the living, breathing boy who played ball and Campus Center Auditorium toric event that may mark the true end of that time this pain came into their lives,” said Dr. Thomas Christine Anchundia, cleaning out her 26-year- hugged his mother. That book is her proof that he One Campus Center Way period, but they also bear witness to the minute Demaria, director of C.W. Post’s 9/11 Families old son Joseph’s Manhattan apartment after the was saved. Tuesday September 13th particulars of their owners’ days and daily routines. Center. But it can also “take them back to the attack, found a daily devotional book on the table “Even though we’re separated, as long as I know 12:00-6:00pm They comfort but they also cause pain. The razor moment when the tragedy happened and as such it next to his bed. Titled “Grace for the Moment,” the my son is safe, that’s enough,” she said. Remember those lost on September 11th by donating blood and recieve a FREE BRUINS T-SHIRT Memorials continue progressing, New York man strives to keep

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not only vividly aware that they were very much appreciate sitting on my By Stephanie Farr part of a coordinated attack, they fought loved one’s bench and listening to the (MCT) back and prevented the plane from water,” she said. reaching its intended target – reportedly Brad Palmer, of Ontario, Canada, In the shadow of a symbol of war, the U.S. Capitol building. who was visiting D.C. with his wife among a forest of steel skyscrapers and To Mary Duranko, 62, who came and two boys, decided to bring them all at the edge of a field of farmland, peace from Johnstown, Pa., to visit the memo- to the memorial on his 52nd birthday. has been borne from tragedy. rial, the passengers of Flight 93 are He did so, he said, because Sept. We Remember September 11, 2001 Pieces of tragedy are at these places, more than victims. They’re heroes. 11 was “huge” in Canada. When all air too – airplane windows misshapen by “They knew their destination. It travel was grounded in the wake of the ungodly temperatures, thank-you notes was inevitable and they gave their attacks, many planes were rerouted to Interfaith Commemoration of September 11 to the dead and a grove of hemlock lives,” she said. “That’s a big decision. Canada, where locals took in stranded trees that cover earth still containing I don’t know if I could have made it.” travelers. Remembering 9/11, Building Our Future Together human remains. Before the park closed on a recent “Obviously, it was specific to the A decade after the Sept. 11, 2001, Friday, September 9 from 12:00-1:00pm evening, as visitors started to file out, United States,” he said. “But it touched terrorist attacks at the Pentagon, New an older gentleman in an NYPD T-shirt people all over the world that day.” Student Union Building (front steps), UMass Amherst York City and Shanksville, Pa., these walked away from the site with tears in hallowed grounds are becoming the his eyes. In his right hand was one of Ground Zero Gettysburg of a new generation, the the small American flags that visitors Antietam of a new era. place on the fence at the overlook in With the finishing touches of the September 11th Memorial: Ringing of the Chapel Bells They are – for better or for worse – remembrance. memorial still under way, visitors

A free art experience for all tourist destinations of a more modern, Sunday, September 11 The 69-year-old New Yorker, who observed the progress from the second brutal American history. Old Chapel, UMass Amherst preferred not to give his name, said that floor of the nearby World Financial On Sunday, family and friends of he lost many friends on Sept. 11, includ- Center. Inspiration everywhere Art in surprising places the fallen will come to these conse- ing his partner. He said that he worked crated spots, and the official memorials Matte Tonna, 43, of Parma, for months at Ground Zero cleaning (“Like the cheese!” he said), brought 9/11 National Moment of Remembrance September 9 4–8 pm 4–6 pm Hands-on! at Ground Zero and Shanksville will be Art-making for ages 4+ w/adult (while supplies last) unveiled. But the new memories made rubble and had made a promise to him- his wife and three children to see the Sunday, September 11 at 1:00pm self to “be here” in Shanksville one day. site on their first visit to New York City. 6 pm Open Eyes at these terrorist-attack sites will be the Featuring Looking and thinking about the El Muro exhibition with true memorial to the lives lost. The flag he was holding was bro- “It was something that touched the Carolyn Cole/L.A. Times via Mct Ann Musser, Associate Director of Academic Programs and ken – its tiny plastic flagpole snapped. minds and souls of everybody in the Memory, Healing, and Hope: An Interfaith Gathering EL MURO Public Education for SCMA Birynn Heverly, 11, of Chesapeake, world,” he said. “We would like our New York’s Harry John Roland is a combination tour guide, historian, philosopher and public scold who Shanksville strives to keep the record of the Sept. 11 attacks straight. PHOTOGRAPHS BY EDUARDO HERNÁNDEZ SANTOS Va., had spotted it nearby on the fence children to experience this, to let them on the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11 The 250-acre memorial in Somerset and tried to mend it. see firsthand the scene of this tragedy.” SEPTEMBER 2–NOVEMBER 20, 2011 By Tina Susman known as “the World Trade Center the terrorist attacks to impress tour- Sunday, September 11 at 4:00pm County in western Pennsylvania, which The New Yorker saw the young But just two weeks before it was to girl’s fruitless attempts and promised open, the site still looked like any other Los Angeles Times man.” ists. For instance, Roland says he lost Amherst Town Common and Grace Episcopal Church Refreshments by honors the victims of Flight 93, is not Every day, he appears outside the a nephew who worked in the south Museum Shop open 10–8 to help. He went to the visitors’ center, construction zone. just a memorial. It’s a cemetery. NEW YORK (MCT) – The pas- disaster site to talk about what hap- tower, which was the first to collapse. A 17-ton sandstone boulder near a where he was given a Band-Aid to “We are a little bit unimpressed,” www.smith.edu/artmuseum sengers from New Jersey spill out of pened to the buildings and the people But Roland has given two different mature hemlock grove at the edge of mend the broken flag. Tonna said. “But, if this is all we can Eduardo Hernández Santos. Cuban, born 1966. El Muro (The Wall), 2005 (printed 2008) [detail]. Gelatin silver the train station and across the blister- inside them, to lovingly wipe down names for the nephew. One does not More info at www.umass.edu / religious_affairs or 413-545-9642 prints with applied lettraset. Purchased with funds from the Dorius-Spofford Fund for the Study of Civil Liberties Together, the two strangers ban- see, so be it. We will come back.” and Freedom of Expression. ©2011 Eduardo Hernández Santos. the park marks the spot where the plane ing sidewalks of Lower Manhattan, daged the flag together and put it back Nearby, Marie Livanos, 53, pointed the plaques honoring fallen firefight- appear on the official list of victims; hit the ground, exploding on impact. oblivious to one another as they ers, and to badger tourists into asking the other is of a white man who Only 8 percent of the human remains in the fence at Shanksville. out pending structures to her five guests steamroll toward their destinations. him questions and listening to his lived in San Diego. The photographs from passengers were found, and when “This is just as significant that this from Long Island and Israel. One rider stands out from the hypnotic spiel. Roland shows of the nephew are of a the coroner sent cadaver dogs to sniff little girl wanted to fix this flag as any- Livanos was working at a law firm pack: a broad-shouldered man wear- “Don’t be scared – say some- black man. around the hemlock grove, the dogs just body who wanted to work here or at on the 40th floor of the second tower ing jeans, T-shirt and a baseball cap, thing!” he belted out to a family who Pressed on the question of the sat down, said Keith Newlin, superin- Ground Zero,” the old man said. when the first plane hit the other tower. a tattered gym bag slung over one stared back, wide-eyed and silent, nephew, Roland responds with a theo- tendent of the memorial. Although she would speak little of it, Domino’s shoulder. He takes in the scene out- when Roland challenged them to ry that hundreds or even thousands of “So, in other words, they’re here. Pentagon Livanos’ guests said that she was instru- side the station, at the edge of the for- recall how many planes were hijacked people died that day who never were They’re still here,” Newlin said, point- mental in helping her colleagues get out mer World Trade Center, and homes that day. The answer is four. But a officially counted. “What about the ing to the hemlock grove. “This is a While men and women in Army alive. in on a young couple. decade after the fact, memories are homeless? What about the undocu- cemetery.” fatigues rushed in and out of the In 2003, Livanos’ law firm moved “Do you know the past? That’s fading, laments Roland, who says he mented workers?” he asked. Because of years of construction, Pentagon in Northern Virginia, all was in to the World Financial Center, where 2 or More the question I ask!” he barks cheer- is driven by a preoccupation with the “All the names are not on the list,” visitors to the site have been relegated calm at the nearby memorial. Livanos can see Ground Zero every fully at the pair, who have no time to towers and a determination to make he insisted to Wil Willenborg and her to the park’s western overlook, but on The sound of running water, so inte- day. respond before he fires off his next people – particularly Americans – daughters, Marthe and Geertje Van 2-Topping Sunday, the main memorial and wall gral to the memorial’s design, seemed “At first, when you would look out question. learn from history and cherish what Engen, who were visiting from the of names will open. The entire park is to drown out even the traffic from the window, you saw something that “Where are you from?” they have. Netherlands and found themselves scheduled to open in 2017, including nearby Route 27 and the thrumming was not there,” she said. “Now, when “Uh, L.A.,” the man says slowly, “America is appreciated only pulled into Roland’s orbit on a warm a new visitors center and a memorial helicopters above. you look out, you see hope. We see Medium Pizzas clearly trying to decide if this sweaty when you leave it,” said Roland after Benches, made to look like airplane hope, rebuilding and future. It’s like August afternoon. grove of 40 trees to represent each vic- interloper – Harry John Roland – is wings, each bear the name of a victim. a little phoenix coming up from the greeting some tourists from Israel. “He speaks with his heart,” said tim. nuts or nice, a tour guide or a bum, They’re arranged diagonally along the ashes.” “I don’t have to tell you about Willenborg, as the trio struggled to $ 99 Unlike the memorials at the but also drawn in by his wide grin and flight path of Flight 77, with those One of Livanos’ guests, Alon terrorism,” he told them. “Americans explain the man’s ability to draw Pentagon and Ground Zero, which giddy demeanor. facing one way honoring victims on Roitman, 18, of Tel Aviv, Israel, said have no idea.” strangers close and keep them there. many people visit as part of planned Roland follows up with the same the plane and those facing the other that terrorist attacks are a regular occur- Although he shouts, “History, “He’s fascinated by the history, Each trips to D.C. or New York, visitors to obscure detail he shares with every- Shanksville have to make an effort to direction commemorating people killed rence in his country. don’t let it be a mystery,” more than but it’s more than that. He’s fascinated one he meets on these streets: the find the memorial, which is about 20 inside the Pentagon. “Who better to show us how to get 100 times a day, Roland’s own his- by everything, and he brings this to Fall Semester 2011 — Recruitment Nights exact time it was in their hometown 5 minutes from the closest highway. Janice Tate, 66, of Madison, N.C., through them than America?” he asked. tory is a mystery. This much is clear: others,” said Geertje, as her sister when that first plane hit the World You must attend at lease ONE of these meetings. No exceptions, even if you have participated before. Perhaps that extra effort is fitting, liked the way each individual was hon- “This shows the power of democracy He grew up in Harlem, is 57, lives in stuffed a $20 bill into Roland’s jug. Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. because what sets Flight 93 apart from ored. and the strength that comes out of rising Jersey City, N.J., and has a 15-year- “I get emotional listening to him,” 6:00-8:00 PM (Note: Prompt Starting Time!!) The couple listen and nod as Order Online! the others is that the passengers were “If it was my family member, I’d and building ourselves up again.” old son. He says he became a history Marthe said. • Sept. 12 Mon, Student Union Ballroom• Sept. 13 Tues, Student Union Ballroom • Roland begins reciting the history of buff while growing up under the guid- Though there’s no evidence for Sept. 14 Wed, Student Union Ballroom the fallen buildings. They sidle away ance of a strict uncle “who kind of his claim of overlooked victims, after about 30 seconds, but Roland carried the baseball bat in the family.” Roland has no trouble captivating Assignment notificationONLY Thurs. Sept. 15 @ Boltwood table C C Concourse. (413) 256-8911 isn’t fazed. He moves on and keeps on While other young black men he an audience as he alludes to these No telephone inquiries. You or a friend must pick up notification letters! Domino’s talking – bellowing actually – a sing- knew fell victim to drugs and crime, mysterious lost souls from the Pizza Route 9, Hadley song phrase that is nearly as familiar Roland says he learned about history corner of Liberty and Greenwich Volunteer while earning credit! in this neighborhood as the clangs and and engineering, though it’s unclear streets, outside a fire house about drones of heavy machinery inside the if he ever worked at either. Asked if 30 feet from the main entrance to construction zone known as ground he ever lived overseas, Roland says the construction zone. zero. cryptically, “I’m not allowed to say.” “How many buildings were “History, don’t let it be a mys- He gives a similar answer when asked there before they were gone?” he tery!” Roland shouts to nobody in if he served in the military. shouts, before launching into a cho- particular. “How many buildings “I wish I knew more about rus that he repeats in various forms were there before they were gone? him,” said Robert Maxwell of North throughout the day: Don’t get it wrong! Don’t say two, Carolina, who met Roland when he “I look for those who have no ‘cuz that’s not true!” and his wife visited the World Trade idea what was here; In the 10 years since the Sept. 11 Center site after the 2001 attacks. “I look for those to know the attacks, the site has become a mag- They were captivated by Roland’s facts; net for tourists and for entrepreneurs mix of street theater and history “I look for those to know the hawking postcards of the twin towers, lectures and have stayed in touch. truth; books of photos from the day of the Maxwell described Roland as a “trou- “I look for those to understand attacks and key chains with American bled soul,” driven by something that that 9/11 changed the whole world. flags. only he understands. “Wake up, please! For Roland, it has become an “He’s just got this thing pushing “Don’t say two, ‘cuz that’s not obsession and a public stage. He is him,” said Maxwell. “He doesn’t seem true. laurence kesterson/philadelphia inquirer via Mct a tour guide of sorts who works for to have a political agenda. He just “You don’t know? Ask some- Visitors peer past the fence to the Flight 93 National Memorial, at the sacred ground of the Flight 93 crash nobody but himself and is paid in tips knows everything about the towers.” body, please. site and the newly completed memorial in Shanksville, Pa. stuffed into a plastic jug that hangs Roland has his critics, who accuse “History. Don’t let it be a from a strap around his neck. He’s him of lying about his connection to mystery.”