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10A SEPT. 11 REMEMBERED
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11,2006
SEPT.11 (CONTINUED FROM 9A)
Patricia Schroeder, Lenexa senior
Unlike most students, I wasn't in high school when the attacks happened. I had just been married in July, and my husband and I had overslept. He called his boss to let him know he was going to be late before we had even turned on the news. His boss said, "Considering what's happened, no one is going in today." That was when we
turned on the TV.
We spent the whole day glued to CNN, like most Americans. Since we had slept till noon, we thought that my husband's boss was exaggerating.
Kyle Rohde, Delafield,
Wis., alumnus
Surely the towers weren't completely gone. Within five minutes of turning on the TV we saw the rubble. I don't really remember much else from that day. I don't even think we even ate lunch or dinner, we just kept staring at the TV.
I was just beginning my freshman year at KU, living on the 7th floor of Templin. My roommates were all at class already and I woke up around 9:30 in the morning and got in the shower. I turned on the radio and heard something about the president being secured in his location.
I then rushed out to the living room and turned on the TV just in time to see the second plane hit the twin towers. I then ran into the dorm hallway to see if anyone else was around before returning to my room and calling my dad. He and I talked quickly
before I headed to class.
Id considered skipping class but I went to anthropology anyway. In that class, we spent the period discussing what had happened. Towards the end, a student raised his hand and began talking about his sister, who worked in the building as a translator for German business people. In the middle of talking, he burst into tears and told us that his sister had most likely died in the collapse. I've never heard 120 people go so silent so quickly.
That day is vivid in my memory and will be for the rest of my life. It was indeed a somber day in the beginning of my college career.
Joe DeLissio, Staten Island, N.Y., sophomore
A lot of students' parents worked in Manhattan and I remember everyone being nervous about their families.
I am from Staten Island, NY., and I was in my second period class when the towers were hit. My teacher, Mr. Manzo, had told us that something had happened but he did not tell us specifically what. In my next class my history teacher, Mr. Gus, told the class that the World Trade Center had been hit by two airplanes. It wasn't until later on that I found out they collapsed.
My dad works right under the Brooklyn Bridge, just across the river from the World Trade Center. Luckily he took off work that day because he was supposed to take my mom to get dental work done. After my third period class my father came to pick me up at school. On our way back from picking up my older sister from her school we could see smoke filling the sky across the Hudson River in Manhattan.
Everyone was shocked. It didn't really hit me until later in the day watching the news with my family how devastating the attack was. The terrorists had taken lives and destroyed a part of the greatest city in the world.
Jessica Christenberry, De Soto senior
Senior year of high school, and we were starting to research for some important paper or another. We had all trucked into the library, and were mainly talking at tables. Someone was on the CNN Web site, and said that a plane had hit the Pentagon. We thought it was a joke. How could that happen?
Then we hear that a plane hit one of the World Trade Center towers, and it seemed more serious.
One by one we filed into the media center where the librarians recorded news for the journalism teachers. I distinctly remember standing there with my arms crossed, watching the news in silence with five or so of my classmates.
That was when we saw live the second plane hit the second tower. The rest of the day was a blur of watching the news and being in fear. Nothing could happen to us in Kansas, but we could feel for the people of New York and Washington.
Amanda O'Toole, Wichita alumna
As we did every Tuesday morning, my roommate and I watched "Good Morning America" while we got ready for our history discussion.
I had just gotten back from brushing my teeth when the station showed a live coverage of the towers. Only one was on fire.
I wasn't sure what was going on. Was it an attack?
An accident? And then I saw the second plane hit.
Myexperiences throughout the next few weeks still
give me chills: awestruck and sometimes crying, I watched 9/11 coverage in the lobby with everyone else on my floor; I watched even the most liberal of students avoid walking on a giant chalked American flag by stepping off Wescoe Beach and onto Jayhawk Boulevard and I chanted "USA" with thousands of other Jayhawks at Late Night with Roy, which was only about a month after the attacks.
I can't believe it's been five years and there are still days I can't believe it ever happened.
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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 12,2001
ISSUE 14 VOLUME 112
TERRORISM ON THE HOMEFRONT
As dust settles and reality hits, Kansas asks why
Kansanstaff report
Local experts and Kansas politicians agree that yesterday's events in New York Washington, D.C., were acts of terrorism.
jefferson searched into the england.
A fourth jetliner, also hijacked,
crashed in Pennsylvania.
crushed in Pennsylvania.
"What's happened is an apparent act of terrorism," said Rep. Dennis Moore.
Two hijacked trade centers crashed into the World Trade Center, bringing down the twin 110-story towers and attacking a seismic shock that attacken a jellied hammer into the Pentagon.
What's happened is an appeal of terrorism," said Rep. Dennis Moore, D-Kan.
Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Ku, and chairman of the Emerging Threats Committee, said he hadn't expected a suicide mission.
investigation to "hunt down the folks who committed this act." Sue Roberts R.Kan and chair
"I must say, I am not pleased with the intelligence on this issue," he said. Roberts described the attack as
Roberts described the attacks on another Pearl Harbor. Dehona Gerner, professor of politi
Deborah Gerner, professor of political science, warned against hurty conclusions.
Within an hour after the New York attack, the Pentagon took a direct, devastating hit from a plane. The fire crews on one side of the five-story structure.
"We have to avoid a rush to judgment and not assume it has anything to do with any group," she said. "We don't know who's responsible."
Authorities still are trying to evacuate those who work in the Twin Towers when the fire breaks out, but three thousand ruins within 90 minutes of the attack, which took place on Friday.
each day.
Altogether, the four planes carried 266 people. There was no word on any survivors.
About 50,000 people work at the Trade Center and tens of thousands visit each day.
Speculation about the attack quickly ocused on terrorist fugitive Osama bin Laden.
"No one has been ruled out, but our initial feeling is that this is the work of an attorney, not a law enforcement officer who spoke in condition of anonymity. He is top of the chain."
Philip Schrodt, professor of political science, said the evidence pointed to bin Laden.
The student will military on its higher; level of alert. Authorities in Washington immediately called out troops, including an infantry regiment, and the Navy set aircraft carriers and the Navy set aircraft carriers to New York and Washington.
The White House, the Pentagon and the Capitol were evacuated along with other federal buildings in Washington and New York. The president was taken to Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, headquarters for the air force, where nuclear strike force, he returned to Washington and addressed the nation at 7:30 p.m. CST.
"This is pretty damn close to the worst possible case scenario," he said. "Olivity, this is a well-organized, long-time-in-alining event."
As second plane crashes into the World Trade Center in New York, The United States was hit by a massive terrorist attack with hijacked planes hitting the World Trade Center twice and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.
The U.S. and Canadian borderes were sealed, security was tightened at naval installations and other strategic points, and the military base in Japan was staged until at least today.
Akhansiisty Tallaban rulers condemned the attacks and rejected suggestions that bin Laden was behind them, suing he does not have the means to carry out such well-organised attacks. He has been given over in Afghanistan.
Abdall-Bari Aitwan, editor of the Al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper, said he received a warning from Islamic funders, but did not take the threat seriously.
STUDENTS FEAR THE WORST
At KU, a scramble to locate loved ones
By Brooke Kestler and J.R. Mendoza
Kansan campus editor and staff writer
News of yesterday's terrorist attacks hit close to home for some students with families in Washington, D.C.
Bryant said that when he learned of the news, he immediately called his
Mai Bryant, Washington, D.C. senior, said his father, Col. Albert Bryant of the U.S. Army, was in the Pentagon when the Boeing let erased into the building.
mother
"She scared at me first because she was哭ing, but then she said he was OK." Bryant said. "That's the most important thing."
important military leader. Bryant, who is also an ROTC cadet, said that in times like these, he hoped people took pride in the country's military.
"When people see the HOTC guys, I want them to remember what they're willing to do for this country. We'd do nothing for this country."
"He's OK" said Roberta, Alexandra,
va. senior. "It's really scary and horrifying
that this could even happen."
Jen, Pat Roberts, R-Kan., said her father was at his office in Washington D.C., at the time of the attack.
Moore said her sister, Kristin Bechard, a 1998 KU graduate and Shawne resident, was in Boston this weekend for a conference.
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Anne-Wesley Roberts, daughter of
jenny Moore, Overland Park park and business manager of the University Daily Kanan, said her sister was almost a passenger on the United Airlines flight out of Bounton that crashed in New York World Trade Center theater in New York.
Moore said her sister had the choice of taking the United flight yesterday or taking an American Airlines flight on Monday. Moore said she took the earlier flight because she wanted to get home.
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fyronse Seymour, San Diego senior, fills four gas containers feeling increased gas prices. Care backed up to 1-1/2 block Tuesday at Kwik Shop.吕思马。Kansas Attorney General Carson Stavall said price hikes should be reported.
Kansas City International. Lawrence feel aftershocks
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07 Courtney Craigmile and Paul Smith
Kennedy staff writer
Kansan staff writers
the nation was struck with chaos after the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. yesterday.
Mike Young, a police officer in Kansas City, Mo., and police had closed the block of Kansas City containing the Jackson County courthouse, the federal building.
y Hall and Kansas city police head-
quarters. He said the federal building had been closed and all nonemployees workers at City Hall were sent home. Kansas City
Buildings were closed and security was stepped up at federal and state buildings, but area police urged busies to continue as usual.
"Anything we're doing right now is in response to what's happening on the East Coast." Young said.
Kansas City International Airport shut down yesterday after air traffic nationwide was grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration for unscheduled uncontrolled landings at KCI, said Joe McRide, a representative at the airport.
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Student's uncle feels plane hit the Pentagon
Kansan managing editor
By Leita Schultes
Ross has on office at the Pentagon and was in work when a powerful terrorist attack occurred there and has also a license at the University of Kansas — Emily Rows, College, S.C. (J)
"I felt and I hearted it that was Todd Worris, a U.S. Navy commander, had to say about yesterday's attack on the Pentagon.
Todd Riss said he had been watching CNN in his office when a World Trade Center tower in New York City was hit by a plane.
Ross said about 50 minutes elapsed between when he saw the attack on the World Trade Center and when a third plane crashed into the Pentagon.
Then he got out.
He then drove and airplane flew into the World Trade Center, tower I, knew that the first one was not an accident, and I became quite confused that I was standing on the fifth floor of the Pentagon at the time," he said.
placed charges the nine Tonight. His first thought was that the United States was under attack.
"And I thought it was being done by a fairly orchestrated attempt," he said. "If those two things were targets, there were probably others as well."
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Jayhawk coaches remember where they were on Sept.11
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KANSAN STAFF REPORTS
The nature of college athletics requires constant travel and relocation. On the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, The University Daily Kansan asked some Jayhawk coaches where they were when they heard the news.
visit kansan.com/sept11 to look at the Kansan from five years ago, view a video montage of people's reactions to the events and to read all the reflections you submitted.
Women'sbasketballcoach Bonnie Henrickson:
On Sept.11, Bonnie Henrickson was just miles from the Pentagon.
"I couldn't see the plane hit, but you felt it," she said. "Then, after a few minutes, you could see the smoke."
By the 11th, Henrickson was in Washington, D.C., making school visits to meet with prospects. She was making her way northward
At the time, she was the head coach of the Virginia Tech Lady Hokies. Sept. 9 marked the first day of the 2001 recruiting season.
toward Pennsylvania when she called an Amateur Athletic Union coach she had planned to meet with later that day.
AAU coach Linda Genther told coach Henrickson that she needed to turn on a TV immediately. Right as Henrickson was learning of the collapse of the World Trade Center, a plane struck the Pentagon.
Henrickson recalls her family frantically trying to get a hold of her. When her sister was reassured that Bonnie was safe, her sister burst into tears.
Henrickson also remembers the first day airlines were cleared to fly again.
Being a head basketball coach on the collegiate level requires an abundance of travel.
Accompanied by her staff, they were the only three people aboard the commercial flight.
After that day, Henrickson says her thoughts on traveling will never be the same.
Ritch Price may have been the farthest from the attacks of any Jayhawk coach. Price and his wife were in the midst of a 10-day vacation when they heard the news.
I was running on a treadmil on a cruise ship in Istanbul." Price said. "I was watching the news, so I actually saw the second plane hit live!"
Because of the worldwide airport closings, the Prices were forced to stay an extra three days on their docked ship with no way to get home to their three young sons.
The New York Yankees, along
"It's not that you're scared for yourself, but who's going to take care of your family." Price said.
Baseball coach Ritch Price:
Often being the source of rallying wide varieties of people together, America's pastime had a hand in giving hope to a nation stunned by tragedy.
"The first time we watched 'God Bless America' during the seventh inning of the Yankees game, it chokes you up." Price said. "I think it choked up an entire nation."
with several other teams from various sports, postponed games because of the attacks, but Price feels they did this country a world of good upon their return.
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Volleyball coach Ray Bechard:
On Sept. 11, Ray Bechard was in his office preparing for an upcoming volleyball match. Tracy Burge, Kansas softball coach, then entered his office to inform him about the news.
Bechard said Bunge asked him if he had seen the television, and he replied no.
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"I turned it on, and, obviously, I was fixated for the rest of the day," he said. "I know we canceled our next match and rescheduled."
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