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The role of an educator is to stay informed, but professors found themselves shocked like the rest of the nation.

Nishanth Coontoor Staff Writer

Those alive to witness the events of Sept. 11 still clearly recall the minutest of details, of what they were doing when tragedy struck. We all know exactly where we were, even today.

“Initially, I did not know what was happening—it was like a bad dream,” Larry Nel-son, former assistant dean of international programs for CALS, said.

Nelson said it was like any other day—he was sitting in his office, working.

“Piles of paper that needed working on were lying near a small, never-used TV. The si-lence was interrupted by my secretary, who ran into my of-fice and said something big was going on. She suggested I turn on the TV. She had got a call from a family member. I saw

the towers go.”For the first time, Nelson

turned on his office TV to wit-ness the devastation. Confu-sion continued to prevail.

“I saw people running in the streets, running down the stairways. I saw thick smoke everywhere. Although we were fortunate to be close to a TV, we weren’t sure how serious the incident was. It took us a day or two for the sinking in.”

Nelson received his doctorate in 1961 and has been with N.C. State since 1964. He has lived through several incidents.

“During one visit to Hawaii, I crossed paths with John F. Ken-nedy. I saw Air force One at the airport. He was assassinated a day later. When you live a long time, you see a lot of things.”

Thomas Stafford, vice chan-cellor for Student Affairs, was in the middle of an Executive Officers Meeting with the chancellor on the seemingly normal day.

“It’s a regular staff meeting that had begun at 9:00 a.m. We were a good while into the meeting,” Stafford said. “At ex-actly 9:45 a.m., Charlie Leffler, vice chancellor for Finance and

Business, broke into the room excited. He announced ‘planes crashed into the Pentagon.’ There was nothing about World Trade Center.”

The meeting was soon ad-journed, and everyone re-turned to their offices.

“I put on the news and tried to learn what was going on,” Stafford said. “It was as the day unfolded that I realized what had transpired. Every-one on campus was in a state of shock. It took me a full day for the reality, the magnitude of the event to sink in.”

Stafford has retained the sheet of paper for 10 years he was taking notes on during the meeting when the news broke. The sheet has ‘GOM-9-11-01’ written on the top left. The paper has scribbles of ‘houses-scholars-next week. housing,’ perhaps points being discussed at the meeting. On the top right corner, it reads: “9:45 C. Leffler Planes crash into Pentagon.”

“This sheet,” Stafford said, “is a chilling reminder to me as to what happened that day. It is a really historical day that I will always remember.”

Stafford keeps the sheet,

along with other personal doc-uments, that are special to him in the top drawer of his desk.

Darryl Lynn Overby, stock clerk for University Recreation, always starts his day at 11:00 a.m. at Carmichael Gymnasi-um. He has been working there for the last 20 years.

“I was awakened by a call that told me to turn on the TV,” Overby said. “The first thing I saw was the Twin Towers be-ing bombed. I was alarmed and felt remorseful. I tried to get an understanding of what was go-ing on.”

Overby said he prepared to leave for work, still unsure of what had just happened.

“Here at the gym, work con-tinued, but we were all trying to gather what was happening,” Overby said. “The incident is something that I can never forget. But, I have made peace with it. We have to pray for individuals who lost lives that day. We have to pray for their families.”

He said the events of 9/11 were eye-opening.

“I have grown as an indi-vidual. I have learned to pay attention to my surroundings.”

Faculty and staff recall the initial shock

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Thomas Jasmine, a freshman in arts applications, writes and reflects on how the tragic day of 9/11 unraveled for him while he was attending a class in the third grade. All students were given an opportunity to remember the tragic day by

signing a “Where were you?” 9/11 Memorial Wall located in The Brickyard Thursday.

Students show pride on Hillsborough Street

Business participation, although not all positive, allows expression of remembrance and angst.

John WallNews Editor

Windows painted on Hillsborough Street busi-nesses memorializing 9/11 signified student support of the tenth anniversary of the east coast, airplane-driven destruction.

The Hillsborough Street Community Service Corpo-ration requested 25 students or student organizations to participate in painting. Those who did the best job were eligible to receive prizes; the top prize was a 40-inch flat screen T V d o -nated by HSCSC.

Students from N.C. State and Meredith College have been painting al l week. They began on Tuesday, and ended on Sunday morning.

There were so many appli-cants that organizers were scrambling to find further businesses to accommodate all of those interested.

About 40 businesses agreed to have their window fronts painted, according to Jeff Murison, HSCSC exec-utive director.

“The response f rom the students was so over-whelming that we had to call around and get some additional businesses to

participate,” Murison said.Blaine Lautner, a sophomore

in history, sent Technician an email titled “Hillsborough Street store’s disrespect of 9/11 paintings.” He complained of business owners censoring paintings in favor of keeping window signage visible.

Lautner is currently a mem-ber of Students for Conceal to Carry.

“Like many other clubs on campus, we signed up to paint a window on Hillsborough Street in remembrance of Sept. 11th, 2001. Upon beginning to paint the window at Freshber-ry, we were asked to make an attempt to avoid the light-up ‘SMOOTHIES’ sign hanging behind the window,” Lautner said in the email.

“We let them know that w e w o u l d see what we c o u l d d o , but obvious-ly paint ing something large enough to show rev-erence would make avoid-ing the sign tough to do, since it was

hanging directly in the middle of thewindow.”

Lautner and his group de-cided to paint an American f lag over the entire window and the sign.

“This did cover the sign, but we saw no issue with this considering the flag shows pa-triotism and respect for those who perished in that terrorist attack, and it would only be there for a short amount of time. Upon passing by Fresh-

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A decade later, the University reflects on the attacks of 9/11Sweeping impact of terrorist attacks reaches Raleigh.

Joshua ChappellSenior Staff Writer

On Sept. 11, 2001, New York City and Washington, D.C. were targets of the worst terrorist attacks in the his-tory of our nation. More than 6,000 people lost their lives in this horrific tragedy, and the impact of it was felt across the globe including on the cam-pus of N.C. State.

The normal beginning of an ab-normal day

Eva Holcomb was an undergradu-ate student on September 11, 2001. She began her day just like any other: walking to class.

Like many others, she still remem-bers exactly where she was when she first heard news of the attack.

“I was walking down Avent Ferry Road, headed to my weather and cli-mate class in Withers Hall,” Holcomb said. “A friend called me and informed me that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. We discussed how odd this was, and then I contin-ued on to campus.”

Holcomb graduated from the Uni-versity in 2002 with degrees in chem-istry and science education. She is now the director of the Park Scholarships program.

She said many people didn’t realize the severity of the attacks when they occurred.

“We held class as usual,” Holcomb said. “Though many of

us had cell phones, this was before texting and no one seemed aware of the seriousness of how the situation evolved during class.”

Hai ley Queen was also an under-graduate student Sept. 11, 2001. Like Holcomb, Queen began her day just like any other.

“I re me mb e r getting out of my math class in Harrelson and going to the Atrium to get a late breakfast with a classmate and seeing people gathered around the TVs mounted around the room,” Queen said. “At that time, the first plane had crashed into one of the World Trade Center buildings.”

Queen graduated from the Univer-sity in 2004 with a degree in textile engineering. She is now an academic advisor in the College of Engineering.

L i k e m a n y ot her A mer i-cans, Queen and her friends did not immediately realize the scope of the attacks.

“People thought it was a

terrible accident,” Queen said.

Not an accidentStudents across campus quickly re-

alized that these occurrences were no accident.

“After I left class, I called my friend

again and learned there had been a ter-rorist attack,” Holcomb said.

Holcomb said that she went to the first building she could find with a television, which was Mann hall.

“I entered Mann Hall and found a group of people in a tiny conference room huddled around a TV,” Hol-comb said. “I watched with them for awhile and was stunned at what I saw.”

Holcomb, a native of West Point, Virginia, said that her thoughts im-mediately went to relatives that live in the New York and Washington ar-eas. She said that the mood on campus was a somber one.

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Fallen alumni honored at memorial serviceMemorial service held at the Bell Tower honored military alumni.

Jana Ward & Elise HeglarCorrespondent & Deputy News Editor

A memorial ceremony for 9/11 was held at the Bell Tower Sunday afternoon to honor all military alumni from the University.

Benny Suggs, Charlie Corr and Chancellor Randy Woodson spoke at the event. Students and mem-bers of the community gathered together to remember 9/11 and to pay tribute to those who had lost their lives serving in the military.

The ceremony began at 2 p.m. with the Bell Tower bells chim-ing. The national anthem was sung and an invocation was led to mark the beginning of the sobering event.

Gabriel Harden, a junior in com-puter science and a cadet in the Uni-versity Air Force ROTC, said that the event is important because it reminds us of everything we have the potential to lose.

“It puts things into perspective for me. Everything that I value in this country could be hurt or taken away,” Harden said.

Benny Suggs, the director of the N.C. State Alumni Association and a retired rear admiral in the United States Navy, told the history of the Bell Tower and the University’s his-tory of commemorating those who

serve our country.According to Suggs, the Bell Tow-

er was built as a memorial to fallen World War I soldiers.

Charlie Corr is a University police officer and former detective in the New York Police Department. He recounted his experience of arriv-ing on site to the World Trade Cen-ter and reflected on first responders who came to the site to help even when they were not on duty.

“9/11 is a symbol of all the Ameri-cans we have lost, not just on 9/11, but in every war — and we should honor that,” Harden said.

Chancellor Randy Woodson re-marked on how the importance of the students was to help the future generations and be prepared to al-ways be able to handle emergencies.

“They have always had the pur-pose to serve,” Woodson said of the student body.

Eric Cranford, a University alum who died at the Pentagon, was hon-ored at the ceremony. Cranford’s family helped Chancellor Woodson and a Naval member place a wreath

at the base of the Bell Tower at the conclusion of the ceremony.

Harden said the event gives stu-dents the opportunity to remember all of those who have been lost in the United States.

“It’s important that we all keep it in our minds and never forget those that we have lost,” Harden said.

The memorial’s end was also marked by a 21-gun salute, which was carried out by seven riflemen shooting three times, an aircraft flyover of two F-15 Eagles, and the playing of “Taps”.

Alex Chan, a senior in Aerospace Engineering, remarked upon how great it was to see “the show of American pride of the people.”

After the ceremony concluded the crowd had the opportunity to enter the Bell Tower and pay tribute to the 33 University alumni whose names are inscribed on the inside of the Bell Tower. These alumni were people who died while serving their country during World War I. aleX nitt/technician

Showing support for her country and troops, Lee Churchill, of Raleigh, attended the N.C. State memorial service to remember the events that occurred Sept. 11, 2001. Churchill was moved upon receiving an autograph from former Army general and N.C. State alumnus, Henry Hugh Shelton.

berry on my way from the library, today, I saw that they had scraped out a large rect-angle in the middle of the flag in order to allow their sign to be seen,” Lautner said.

HSCSC will erase all window paintings next week after they have been judged, ac-cording to Murison. Lautner did not want to put Freshberry in the crosshairs, but he said they should put national pride ahead of a few days of a covered-up “SMOOTH-IES” sign.

“While I acknowledge the fact that the store is their private property, I see no reason for a store to scrape out a large

part of the American flag because their sign will be covered for three days. I take personal offense to this disrespect against our way of showing respect for the people that perished in that dreadful attack, and those who are continuing to fight, includ-ing members of my own family,” Lautner said in the email.

Murison said one of the ground rules for painting windows was first talking with business owners, which, according to Laut-ner, he and his group abided by.

“We encourage the students to talk to the merchants and make sure that they check with the merchant about what part of the window they can use,” Murison said. “to make sure that they’re not covering up the ‘open’ sign or some other important part of their business.”

HSCSC routinely works with students and owners alike to ensure both sides are satisfied.

“That’s a normal part of our coaching to the students and the merchants when they do something like this,” Murison said.

Murison said he thanked student govern-ment leaders for “putting in the legwork” when it came to organizing the Hillsbor-ough Street cover-up.

“They worked around the clock for the last week to make this happen. It’s their leadership that allowed this part of today’s program,” Murison said.

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“9/11 is a symbol of all the Americans we

have lost, not just on 9/11, but in every

war — and we should honor that.”Gabriel Harden,

junior in computer science

ter where someone had set up a TV on a stand,” Holcomb said. “Everyone in Talley seemed to have a grave awareness of the situation at that point, and was walking around in stunned si-lence.”

Queen said that it was diffi-cult to understand the severity of the situation.

“It was a difficult thing to grasp since nothing remotely like this had happened in our lifetime,” Queen said.

Holcomb said what she most remembers from that day was from sitting in her car after class.

“All of the radio stations were covering the attacks,” Holcomb said. “My most vivid memory from that day is shedding tears in my car as the full weight of the situation set in.”

Queen said that the day was a “very surreal day for everyone.”

The University respondsHolcomb said a little while

after the attacks, she learned of the first response from the University.

“I received an email from N.C. State that afternoon classes had been cancelled,” Holcomb said.

Jon Barnwell, deputy chief for Campus Police, said the University immediately did an internal check of their own security.

“We immediately looked at defining our critical assets and determining security coverage needed to help keep them se-cure,” Barnwell said. “We also contacted federal officials in an effort to determine what the potential risks were associated with universities.”

Safety at Carter-Finley Stadi-um was of the utmost concern, according to Barnwell.

“With it being football sea-son, we understood the poten-tial target a stadium full of peo-ple could be and immediately

began enhancing our security coverage in conjunction with federal officials,” Barnwell said.

Another immediate con-cern on campus was backlash against the Muslim commu-nity, Barnwell said.

“We coordinated with the Muslim Student Association to have a meeting to advise our community that there would be zero tolerance to any harass-ment or intimidation towards members of our community who are Muslim,” Barnwell said.

According to Barnwell, the impact of the attacks impacted security procedures across the nation and on campus.

“9/11 changed the entire thought process of security and safety in the United States,” Barnwell said. “Almost every decision made in regards to security has in some way been impacted by the events of 9/11.”

A unity like no otherQueen said that for herself,

the attacks evoked new feelings of patriotism.

“Prior to the attacks I don’t recall ever being particularly aware of my nationality or feel-ing particularly bonded with others because of our shared nationality,” Queen said. “But after the attacks there was this feeling of a shared bond with others because of our nation-ality.”

While the attacks’ negative impact was and still is wide-spread, there was also the light of unexpected positivity.

“[The attacks] brought a lot of people together and really did bring a lot of good out of people,” Queen said. “Many people did volunteer, give blood, even join the military because of a sense of patrio-tism and a need to help others around them.”

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NYC natives recall tough experiences

Although 9/11 hit close to home for every American, these students experienced it in their backyard.

Joanne WuLife & Style Editor

Grade school kids not far from the age of ten wit-nessed an interruption in the routine of their daily lives, a shift in their coun-try’s political agenda and an awakening for the rest of the world.

Ten years later they are constituents of a genera-tion now sitting in college lectures with memories of the Sept. 11 attacks resting in the back of their minds. Four students who lived in or near New York City at the time of the attacks share their stories as the tenth an-niversary causes memories to resurface.

Sarah Endaya – Bayonne, New JerseySophomore in management

“[My mother] described how there was limited pub-lic transportation running, there was no cell phone ser-vice, barely any of the sur-rounding buildings were left undamaged, there was traffic like nothing she had ever seen before and every-thing was just chaos.”

On the morning of Sept. 11, Endaya’s mother came home from work five hours later than usual to greet En-

daya and her family with news.When her fourth grade class-

mates were slowly disappearing as their parents came to pick them up, she realized it was no ordinary school day.

“The morning of Sept. 11 was actually pretty normal,” Endaya said. “It started getting strange during the afternoon when I noticed a lot of my class-mates were getting taken out of school one by one to the point where only half the class was there by the end of the day.”

Although she lived across the street from her school, students were told they needed to be picked up by a legal guardian. Neither one of her parents were at home. Instead, both her fa-ther and mother were caught in the chaos of that morning.

“My parents worked ex-tremely close to where the Twin Towers stood. The of-fice building where my dad worked is… directly to the left of the left tower,” Endaya said. “Around the time the incident took place, my dad would be on the subway that travels directly below the Twin Towers. Luckily for us, he left for a week to visit his parents in the Philippines due to family emergencies.”

Upon seeing the images on the news that night, Endaya felt the entire situation was surreal.

“I just remember turning on the television to the news and thinking that what I saw looked like a movie, but I knew his parents in the Philippines due to family emergencies.”

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In the wake of Tuesday’s hei-nous attacks, we must await our nation’s search for justice and we must not attack those who are not guilty.

“Victories will be realized by the assassin only if he can succeed in creating hatred and lawlessness, for vengeance sake, in good men who loved justice and loved men.”

Written yesterday, those words would have served as an astonishment to a nation of angry witnesses to the terror-ism that racked New York City and Washington, D.C. Tuesday.

They were, however written in these very pages on Nov. 25, 1963, in a letter to the editor written by Garland McAdoo. Their age, 38 years, does not lessen their relevance or im-pact.

Many in the media are refer-ring to what happened yester-day in New York City, Pittsburg and Washington as the new ter-rorism or the new warfare.

But to those of a certain gen-eration—our generation—

the tactics are the only thing new about yesterday’s attack. Those of us in college today have grown up in the era of the pregnable American—we have seen our federal building burn, our trade centers fall, our students shot down in their schools. It has left us weary of terrorism—both from within and without—but no less sensi-tive to its toll.

It’s for that reason that we must bear that sensitive and share it, feeling unselfcon-sciously the range of emotions that such a tragedy creates: an-ger, extreme grief, empathy for those lost and those who lost them.

What we must not do, how-ever, is vent that anger on those among us who may share links—cultural or otherwise—with those we believe responsi-ble. There is no certainty about who perpetrated Tuesday’s hei-nous acts; what is certain is that no one among our N.C. State community had anything to do with them.

The assassin has struck. Whether we will value justice or allow that assassin to create lawlessness and hate is in our hands.

On that 21st cen-tury “…day that shall live in in-

famy,” at 1:30 p.m., here at N.C. State, I was to teach my 200 student section of Introduction to Psychol-

og y. By that time o f t h a t d ay, a l l air travel had been

halted, both towers had collapsed, and no civilians knew the whereabouts of the president of the United States.

Rather than go through with my scheduled lecture on “Research Methods In Psychology,” I opened the class by reciting John Donne’s poem “No man is an island.” Then I said to my students, ‘let’s talk about what has happened in our country today.’ Some students revealed they had family in New York City who they had been trying to, but could not reach. From there the discussion in the class was somber, an-gry, fearful and sometimes bizarre. One exchange be-tween students was intense. “I think we should nuke ‘em,” a student yelled out.

It was the case that in that class, five or six of the stu-dents, who often came to class in uniform, were in the U.S. Marine Corps, Navy ROTC. When the “let’s nuke ‘em” exclamation was yelled out, immediately one

of the young Marines threw up his hand and without wait-ing for my acknowledgement turned in the direction of that voice and loudly said,

“…nuke who? You don’t know what you’re talking about! Who do we aim nuclear weapons at; were we attacked by another country today? That’s just silly!”

It was a blistering exchange and critique. Yet all of the complexity of the mood in the room was captured by the students’ who said:

“I don’t un-derstand how t h e w o r l d works any-more.”

“ I d o n ’t feel safe any-more.”

Osama Bin Laden’s attack of America on 9/11 did not change everything.

What that terrorist attack did do was jolt us into paying attention to the many social changes that were already go-ing on around us in America; changes in the racial mix and racial rules of social interac-tion; changes in gender roles and rules; changes in the ways we communicate with each other; changes in our rela-tionships with other countries. With the jolt of the 9/11 attacks that awakened this sudden new awareness of how much had been changing, came anxiety.

At that point we began living with, and continue to live with

a neo-diversity anxiety; awareness that in America it was no longer easy to an-swer the question, who are the ‘we’ and who are among the ‘they.’

Osama Bin Laden’s death will not eliminate that anxiety. But his death at our hands can serve to help we-Americans be less vul-nerable to that anxiety. As we commemorate the tenth year anniversary of 9/11,

my hope is that in this time of ref lec-t ion and emotional release t h a t we recognize that Osa-m a B i n Laden’s terrorism

was only one of the things that has been haunting us. In this time of reflection, I especially hope we recog-nize the other changes in our social world that had snuck up on us are not to be feared and no matter what, we cannot “…nuke ‘em.”

If we can use our shared emotion and reflection in that way, we will become less vulnerable to the char-latans who try to manipu-late us to accomplish their own selfish goals by using our anxieties to make us fearful of our fellow Ameri-cans.

{ }Letter from the staff

We could’ve never conceptualized how the events of

9/11 would shape our devel-opment over the last 10 years. Many of us were around ten years old and had no con-cept of terrorists or the World Trade Center. We just thought it was a plane crash; sadden-ing but not world changing. We couldn’t have been more wrong.

It seems as though the one thread that remained con-stant throughout our forma-tive years was 9/11. It never faded in the ways other sta-ples of our youth did; if any-thing, as time has passed the events of 9/11 became further entrenched in our lives.

With each year that passed, the events of 9/11 hit home with an ever-increasing vigor. In the years immediately fol-lowing the attacks we were too young to understand the true magnitude of what had taken place that day.

We knew the death toll but we simply had no way of grasping the extent of the pain that day. And while we may never be able to grasp the totality of the agony ex-perienced with each year that passes and as we experi-ence more personal losses, we find ourselves with a greater

understanding of what hap-pened that day.

We take time to remember 9/11 on occasions beyond memorial services; thoughts of 9/11 have permeated through every aspect of our lives. For some, the random discovery of the three num-bers together, whether it is on a clocks or call logs, has the power to stop us dead in our tracks to reflect.

We cannot watch a passing firetruck, an American flag, or even hear the word patrio-tism without reflecting.

Even the political fracturing

of our nation today prompts a reflection of the immediate months following 9/11.

There was once a time where everyone was on the same page. It was a rarity to see a car not waving an American flag. The buzzwords that fill today’s airwaves of conserva-tive and liberal did not mat-ter.

It was even rarer to find pol-iticians in disagreement over the direction of the nation.

Our nation today feels for-eign considering the unity felt back then. Although the tragedy was immense, it

brought us together in a ca-pacity greater than anything has since.

Looking forward, our gen-eration will never be able to remove itself from 9/11. It’s impossible for many of us to remember the pre-9/11 world. That day demon-strated the human capacity for evil and the possibility of unity in each of us.

A decade from now the feel-ing we have towards that day will remain the same.

We will never forget the events of that day-not only because of the enormity of the tragedy, but because it was one of the defining mo-ments in the development of each of our lives.

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The constant of a decade

No one is too young to remember.

Christian O’Neal, junior in mechanical engineering

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How did the attack on 9/11 change your life?

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“I realized the real need for peace in this world.”

ian yanceysophomore, civil engineering

“I realized how much hate there is in the world.”

Kevin Sullivanfreshman, First year College

“I’m serving in the military because of the heroes that were lost on 9/11/2001.”

Katie Cassidyfreshman, First year College

“It gives all Americans something they can be unified around.”

Andrew Wootensophomore, civil engineering

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LOOK INTO THE PASTThis section is devoted to drawing upon past Technician articles & columns and how the issues N.C. State faced then have changed over the years.

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This editorial was pub-lished the day after the attack on September

11, 2001 urging the N.C. State community to fight for justice, and to not blame those not

guilty.If the col-

lege students of 10 years ago were wear y o f t e r r o r -ism, then the ones of today should have accepted acts of terrorism as a heinous

fact of life. However, nothing could be frather from the truth.

As we have grown up, terror-ism has been the most talked about, hot button issue in society. We have heard of the crimes and witnessed the dev-astation from their wake. We have seen the war on terror and the ones we love go to combat it. We were relieved as Saddam Hussein was removed from power and cheered as Osama bin Laden was assassinated.

The tenth anniversary of Sep-tember 11th is not to be remem-bered as the day our nation was weakened, but rather how far we have come since that hor-rific day.

This editorial challenges us, as students, American citizens and human beings to think about our reaction to this hei-nous crime. Saying the power of the attack is in our hands demonstrates our nation’s abil-ity to allow such “assassins” to proceed with spreading terror, or delegate justice for the lives lost and lives impacted by the event.

I believe the past ten years has demonstrated we value justice and will not allow such acts of war to be tolerated or go with consequence.

We have demonstrated we stand up for our freedom and defend the greater good. I ask that as we remember this day, which will forever live in our nation’s history, as a day we honor those fallen by defend-ing our way of life.

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Honoring the first responders

Raleigh police remember as they continue to confront the challenges 9/11 brought.

Rage. It’s what Rich Marx, a Raleigh police captain, said was his reaction as nearly 3,000 of his countrymen and 72 of his fellow officers died on 9/11.

“We were caught with our pants down on 9/11,” John Walls, Raleigh master officer and purple heart recipi-ent, said.

Ten years into the new terror threat world, Raleigh police officers shed light on their 9/11 memories and the diffi-culties and controversies in keeping America safe.

For Raleigh Captain Chris Bertram, 9/11 was a dreadfully long day of try-ing to locate his brother who worked in Manhattan.

“He ended up having to walk out,” Bertram said. “He walked across the Brooklyn Bridge along with a lot of other people to get out of Manhattan.”

Marx’s initial thought that morning was it was an accident, but the true na-ture of the matter was soon evident.

“It almost made — as it made thou-sands of others — it made you want to join the military and help in any way you could,” he said. “But that really wasn’t a feasible option for me.”

Walls, however, was already in the military, a private first class in the Ma-rines at Camp Lejeune. He spent one semester at N.C. State before choosing the Marines in 2000, eventually taking four tours in sequential operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. He was wounded in Iraq in 2005.

“It hit home quickly,” Walls said. “You were a 20-year-old kid and your country’s been attacked and that’s your job to defend it.”

Since the attacks, the job of law en-forcement has never been the same.

Marx found an immediate role as some civilians nationwide took matters into their own hands following 9/11, attacking many store owners of Middle Eastern heritage. Marx made a point to protect the Middle Eastern store own-ers on his beat at Glenwood South.

“I made extra patrols to those areas and got to know those people even bet-ter just so we wouldn’t have a similar incident here in Raleigh -- and I don’t think we did,” he said. “But from that, I became much closer to those store owners and managers.”

Police also had more responsibilities that seemed trivial before.

“It used to be somebody saw a brief-case sitting next to a building and you know they would take a look at it, bring it inside, and say ‘hey, somebody left this here,’” Bertram said. “Now they call us. I think [9/11] created a height-ened sense of awareness among officers in general.”

In 2009, increased awareness paid off as eight suspected terrorists were ar-

rested in connection with an alleged terrorist cell based in Willow Springs. It was found that this cell was gather-ing weapons and plotting to attack nu-merous places around the world and in America. The federal trial of five Triangle men involved begins in New Bern Sept. 19.

“Prior to 9/11, those guys probably wouldn’t have been picked up,” Ber-tram said. “We are getting better at being proactive rather than reactive in that type of situation.”

Having met one of the men in the ter-rorist cell as a deputy, Walls said he was “super polite.”

“It was weird, because the name didn’t mean anything to me, but when I saw the face I was like, ‘I know that guy,’” he said. “That is a prime example of small terrorist cells throughout the U.S.”

Today, police continue to train for whatever scenarios intelligence says is possible, which Walls said could very well involve Raleigh.

“With the intel we have now, terror-ists aren’t trying to hit [high value tar-gets] like the Sept. 11 attacks,” Walls said. “They want to do multiple, small strikes.”

Walls said the Sept. 6 IHOP shooting in Carson City, Nevada, which killed five people -- including the shooter and three National Guardsman -- may be just that type of terrorism, although it remains unconfirmed.

Police in Raleigh regularly train for clearing hotels, schools and other buildings, Walls said, and how to take quick action at a scene instead of wait-ing for SWAT teams like before 9/11.

“Raleigh is really good about train-ing the patrol officers and giving patrol officers the time and the training to be technically proficient in those areas,” he said.

Bertram and Walls said the commu-nity has come a long way since 9/11. Further progress, however, Walls said, is hard to make.

“There is a fine line to walk between security and liberty,” Walls said. “Peo-ple have to be willing to give up some liberty and some freedoms for security and that’s a hard thing to sell and it is a hard thing to deal with as Americans.”

Wiretapping and the recent airport security scanners remain divisive issues in the nation.

“I don’t know a good answer to it,” Walls said. “I think it’s far above my pay-grade.”

Even while debate continues to rage over that fine line, Marx said ten years later, Raleigh police is more ready and alert to protect its citizens.

“We are definitely more aware and more alert and cognizant of trends here in this country and around the world, and we try to be as prepared as possi-ble,” he said. “And we try to be prepared for any event at any time.”

A fireman and police officer salute the American flag beside a firefighter memorial in Nash Square Friday. The statue of the firefighters was added in 2006 to commemorate fallen firefighters and was the site of a tribute service for the firefighters and first responders of the Raleigh area Friday afternoon.

“You do 24-hour shifts and one-third of the year you are with [your fellow firefighters],” Knightdale fire-fighter Mike Boshart, an N.C. State graduate and Long Island native, said. “So pretty much they are family because a lot of times, you see them more than you see any other person even at your house.”

Looking back on the last 10 years, local firefighters expounded on what the members of FDNY Engine Com-pany 219 and Ladder Company 105 described as the “brotherhood of firefighters.” They spoke of how the North Carolina firefighting commu-nity has drawn close to its New York brothers and how firefighters have learned from the fallen.

Bryant Woodall, former Raleigh assistant chief and current chief of the Swift Creek Fire Department, said on 9/11 he was, ironically, headed to a meeting with the Wake County Terrorism Task Force.

“It was just all fairly new to us. We were seeing what was happening around the world and everybody knew we had to prepare for it here,” he said. “You just can’t imagine it happening, you know? But obviously it does.”

Woodall said it was hard to think that the 343 firefighters that died all went to work that day just like he did.

“If you equate it to Raleigh, it was like wiping away two-thirds of our department,” he said. “You think about 343 lives snuffed out—it was just shocking.”

After the attacks, State Fire Mar-shal Jim Long commissioned former captain Andy Woodall (no relation to Bryant Woodall), then chief of operations for the North Carolina Fallen Firefighter’s Foundation, to go to New York to see what was needed. Woodall has since been to New York 168 times.

“[Long] didn’t want North Caro-lina to buy a fire engine or any-thing,” Woodall said. “He wanted to do something for the families that

would be beneficial.”One of the first tasks was raising

money, and Woodall said firefighters set out on a Fill-The-Boot campaign, taking their boots to the streets for the families of the victims.

“The firefighters of North Caro-lina collected about $7.5 million,” Woodall said.

Sam Griggs, NCSU alum and vol-unteer at Swift Creek Fire Depart-ment, said his department alone collected more than $40,000, mostly from in front of their Tryon Road sta-tion.

Woodall said another, smaller fund through the state fire marshal’s office was allocated for special needs, and that the FDNY Fire Family Transport Foundation, a foundation providing transportation for families to hos-pitals and funerals, needed help.

“At that time I think they had one 15-passenger van and one suburban for al l f ive bor-oughs,” he said.

T hroug h t hat fund, North Caro-lina donated four 15-passenger vans right when they needed it most. As soon as the remains of a f i ref ighter were ident i f ied at Ground Zero, the families were called for an onsite memorial service.

“They were so appreciative of us doing that and the firemen, you know, collecting the money — we’ve just got a good rapport with them,” Woodall said. “It meant a lot to them. So they actually brought the original van they had down to North Carolina and donated it to the North Carolina Fallen Firefighters Foundation.”

While they were here in North Carolina, they found what has be-come a treasure and honor to fallen firefighters around the nation.

“They saw a 1950 Mack fire engine and they wanted one just like it, and we found one in Wade, North Caro-lina,” Woodall said.

Named Engine 343, all the fire-fighters that died were assigned in honor to that company.

Even as the fires burned in New

York in the months after 9/11 and firefighters were rebuilding their lives, firefighting was undergoing tremendous change.

“I think about it a lot now—the last 10 years—at least indirectly as a result of 9/11, I think the fire service has changed more than it had prob-ably in the previous 30 years,” Bryant Woodall said.

He attributed much of the change to massive increases in government funding for equipment and training, many exercises of which took place on or through the University.

“They were a tremendous asset to us,” he said.

Griggs said firefighters are now more conscious of their own safety.

“You know if the roof’s on fire and it is sagging in, and you know is it

worth risking two or four, or maybe six of my firemen to go in there,” Griggs said.

Still, several of the men said that while the growth and unity of the past 10 years was good, the over-whelming outside support that con-tributed to that growth has dwin-dled.

“For instance, in 2004, North Carolina received, if I remember correctly, $60 to $70 mil-lion on just Homeland Security grant money,” Bryant Woodall said. “In 2010, the North Carolina share of that funding was $7 million.”

He said while they do not need as much as they did, the funding drop is a testimony to how the passage of time affects our actions.

“It is like a lot of other things. The longer you go away from it, the more you forget about it,” he said.

Boshart said while the thanking and the helping still happen today, it occurs less often than right after the attacks.

“It was just kind of a different world to be in,” he said. “It would be interesting to see if it could have lasted longer, but it was just differ-ent, I guess. Different for the better, though.”

Serving and protecting— and not forgetting

S.T. Alston, of the Raleigh Police Department, salutes during the national anthem, played at the Sept. 11 tribute service Friday. The service featured a moment of silence for the fallen men and women of Sept. 11, as well as a commissioning by Gov. Bev Perdue.

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To the firefighters in New York and even around the nation

after 9/11, 343 wasn’t just a number. It was family.

the news that night, Endaya felt the entire situation was surreal.

“I just remember turning on the television to the news and thinking that what I saw looked like a movie, but I knew every-thing was real.”

Memories of her mother fi-nally walking through the door from work that night coupled

with stories of close friends los-ing their loved ones re-emerged as she looked back on the day the attacks occurred.

“I didn’t really understand the intensity of the situation until now, but I knew that it was a big deal,” Endaya said. “The whole thing made me love my hometown even more and made me respect the people who grew up there. I feel like experiences like that help com-munities get closer.”

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Lopez went to elementary school in Queens but lived and grew up and Brooklyn. The morning of the attacks, however, created an impact be-yond the borders of Manhattan and spilled into surrounding boroughs and into the lives of people like Lopez.

“At that time I wasn’t sure what to think,” Lopez said. “We were all obviously scared and

shocked. Besides that, all that was going through my head was why anyone would do such a thing.”

The commotion of the city still lives on in Lopez’s mind, but while he con-tinues to ref lect on what happened that Tuesday morn-ing, Lopez said the aftermath weighed just as heavily.

“I think the whole experience has made me realize that you need to see the world through

many eyes,” Lopez said. “Pain and suffering can be caused by few. But in numbers and with true loyalty and respect, it can be overcome.”

Weaving in and out of crowded sidewalks and brushing by strangers on a daily basis was a routine.

But according to Lopez, Sept. 11 became an eye-opener to him and to his surroundings, as what was once habitual prac-tice became something more

personal.“You see many of the same

people on the train, the bus, walking on the street, in the corner store and so on… all those people become like a huge family,” Lopez said. “Be-ing a New Yorker means you are part of a community that suffered... But during that time of suffering we put our differ-ences aside and comforted those we could. As New York-ers we became much stronger.”

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A soldier’s unexpected homecoming

Two weeks ago, this moment had seemed far away for the assistant in the English department’s writing pro-gram. Before that, she never really ex-pected this day would come.

But as she watched her son’s casket exit the plane, she finally understood the news delivered to her doorstep in the early morning hours two agoniz-ing weeks earlier.

“It made it real — seeing him finally come home,” VanDreumel said.

In mid-August, Joe VanDreumel became one of the 1,766 casualties in Afghanistan since U.S. forces de-ployed there nine years and 11 months ago. But in the wake of the 10th an-niversary of 9/11, VanDreumel says it’s her son’s life they’ll be celebrating — along with the sacrifice of a hero.

‘He was a challenge’Joe was curious as a kid. So curious

that one day, his mother had to pick him up early from school after he at-tempted to flush his foot down a toilet.

“I got a phone call one day: ‘Miss VanDreumel, can you bring a pair of shoes and pants for Joe?’” she said. ‘I asked, ‘Why?’”

In particular, Joe always wanted to figure out how things worked.

“He was curious, always was,” Van-Dreumel said. “He’s always been me-chanically inclined.”

His natural spatial skills made the military attractive to him since high school. But after Joe was laid off from his job as a machinist, he decided to join the Army to become a mechanic in January 2010 at the age of 31.

“Even with the good job he was still thinking about it all — to serve his country just like his grandpa did,” she said.

Members of the VanDreumel family are no strangers to war. Her father was a wounded World War II and Korea veteran, and her husband is a former Navy chief who served two tours in Vietnam. Even Joe’s paternal grand-father served in both World War I and World War II.

“Our family has had relatives in the military ever since the Revolutionary War,” VanDreumel said. “It’s almost been every generation.”

After boot camp at Fort Knox, Joe, his wife and two young children, moved to their new home in Grafen-woehr, Germany, in August 2010. Be-cause of that extra maturity, according to VanDreumel, Joe said the Army was the place for him.

“Joe felt very at ease in the Army,” she said. “While we were visiting him in Germany in June, he told my hus-band, ‘I found a home.’”

Morning callersTwo months after that visit, the

doorbell woke VanDreumel at 5 a.m. A chaplain and a sergeant from Fort Bragg were at the front door.

“I was upstairs and my husband had opened the door and I saw them,” VanDreumel said. “I knew.”

The men came to bear the news that their son, a corporal in the 172nd In-fantry Brigade, died Aug. 14 while serving in the Paktika province of eastern Afghanistan.

“It was all a blur after that,” she said. “I can’t even recall the names of the chaplain and sergeant. It was surreal.”

Although no stranger to the recoil of war, said she never saw this coming.

“You know the danger’s there — but you just think it happens to someone else,” VanDreumel said.

On the ground close to the Pakistani border, Joe was working as a mechani-cal specialist recovering damaged or destroyed vehicles and restoring them. When an improvised explosive device injured soldiers on patrol and disabled their Humvee Aug. 14 outside a small, nearby base, Joe and Sgt. Matthew Harmon headed out to recover the

wreck.“They got out of their vehicle and

they had transported the four other guys from the Humvee into their ve-hicle,” VanDreumel said. “They were going to secure the Humvee to put it on the flatbed when a secondary IED went off.”

The explosion, verified by the au-topsy at Dover Air Force Base, caused blunt force trauma, killing both Van-Dreumel and Harmon.

As a mother’s worst nightmare came to realization, VanDreumel said she does not blame Joe or herself for the tragedy.

“I wasn’t upset when he first joined,” VanDreumel said. “I’m proud of him.”

Casualty assistanceOn Aug. 24, the VanDreumel family

returned to Germany. Uniting them there again was no small task, ac-cording to Capt. Jamie Davis.

As the VanD-reumel’s causal-ity assistance of-ficer, he’s one of the soldiers who helps the families of fallen service members by ar-ranging service members’ home-comings and funerals.

“It’s a whole team, deployed by the Army. We have different responsibili-ties throughout,” Davis said. “Joe’s from Michigan, his family lives in North Carolina and Germany. It was

quite a bit of work to make it all func-tion — but it did.”

Davis said he treats the death of ev-ery soldier like he’s losing a brother

“A loss is shared by everyone. It’s shared by the family and as well as

the Army,” Da-vis said. “We’re a big family and we want to help out everyone we’re connected to.”

Like the broth-ers in arms they were, Joe and Harmon’s be-longings sat next to each other during the ser-vice.

“They had their boots, their weap-ons, their dog-tags and then their hel-mets, and they had them side by side on a stage,” VanDreumel said.

Welcome homeAs his casket rode into his former

hometown of Grand Rapids, Mich., a fleet of motorcyclists from the Pa-triot Guard escorted Joe to Rosedale Cemetery.

VanDreumel said rows of residents lined the roads, holding American flags and signs saying, “Thank you, Joe.”

“It made you feel like that what he was there for,” VanDreumel said. “Like that was his purpose or his call-ing — that freedom is not free.”

She said her memory of Joe will live on through his selfless impact on friends and family. Only by sharing that impact, she said, will she truly continue the “healing process.”

“A lot of his brothers he was sta-tioned with in Germany called him ‘big brother,’” she said. He was a role model. He was a patriot. He was a hero.”

Dennis and Karen VanDreumel, parents of fallen soldier Joseph VanDreumel, display his medals and honors. Joe, a corporal in the Army, died during an improvised explosive devise blast in Paktika province, Afghanistan Aug. 14. In addition to his Bronze Star, Joe recieved a purple heart, the Afghanistan Campaign Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, and the Army Good Conduct Medal.

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Dennis and Karen VanDreumel lost their son Army Spc. Joseph VanDreumel, of Grand Rapids, Mich., Aug. 14 in Paktika province, Afghanistan. VanDreumel specialized in vehicle recovery operations and was assigned to 1st Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment, 172nd Infantry Brigade at Grafenwoehr, Germany. Karen VanDreumel is a writing programs assistant with the English department.

SportsN.C. State defeats North Florida 3-0.

Rishav DeyStaff Writer

As the mercury hit 85 degrees Sunday afternoon, N.C. State beat North Florida by 3-0 in what proved to be a fairly one-sided game for the Pack.

The Wolfpack battled it out against the Ospreys (3-4-1), who in their only previous meeting had seen the Pack tri-umph and looked set to avenge that loss. It wasn’t to be, as the Pack, fresh from their win against High Point, started the game fast with the offense going all guns blazing from the first whistle.

The Ospreys, coached by for-mer N.C. State All-American and 1988 ACC Player of the Year, Linda Hamilton, soon fell behind in the 13th minute when freshman midfielder Julia Sandridge was at the right place at the right time as after a cor-ner kick that was punched out by the goal keeper, Sandridge volleyed the ball from outside

the box at the top left corner which the Ospreys defender on the line could at best, just help in.

“Julia’s goal was well taken,” Coach Steve Springthorpe said. “First time ball and the ball is punched out on top of the 18 and the ball was placed in the top left corner. It was good.”

Tanya Cain started the sec-ond half strongly with some impressive dribbling and dan-gerous shots, supported by her strike partner, freshman for-ward Stephanie Bronson, who ripped apart the UNF defense with her speed and amazing vision.

Bronson soon got the goal she deserved in the 65th min-ute when she controlled the highball and also managed to beat the goalkeeper with the same touch and held off two defenders to slot in the ball in the empty net.

It was a special moment for the Pack as the goal also coin-cided with the flyover of the two fighter jets, which were a part of the ceremonies to mark the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

“It was really exciting to see the fighter jets fly over just after my goal,” Bronson said. “It was special.”

In the 67th minute, Bron-son was in the thick of action again as she scored her second goal to double her tally for the afternoon after Cain provided the ball for Bronson to stab in her third for the season. Bron-son looked menacing and was surely the star of the game as she never seemed to stop and made numerous runs to make sure the Pack kept the game be-yond the reach of the Ospreys.

“I feel really good.” Bronson said. “I am so excited. This is my [third] time scoring.”

Bronson said her speed was one the strongest facets of her game and was happy that her teammates took full advantage of that.

“I have always been known for being really fast,” Bronson said. “That has always been one of the most important parts of my game.”

The defense was also on top of their game, and despite some lapses in concentration, the Wolfpack never let the Ospreys

seize the initiative .Freshmen defender Shelli

Spamer was satisfied by the team’s performance on the field.

“It was very good,” Spamer said. “Probably wasn’t our best game today but we had a shutout and that was what we aimed for.”

Spamer credited the senior players in the team in bring-ing out the best in her.

“I look up to them a lot, there are a lot of leaders,” Spa-mer said. ”They have put me in a good place and they have taught me to work hard and fight for everything.”

The Pack dominated the game with 21 shots, which Coach Springthorpe was happy about.

“In the beginning I told them, if we need a shut out, the first and foremost important thing is to keep the ball away from the back of the net,” Spring-thorpe said. “The three goals, we’ll take them, but we also had many great opportunities that we should have had put away.”

Springthorpe, whose team managed just seven wins all

season last year, have already achieved seven wins in their first eight games. For that, he chose to credit his team alone, but claimed the games that would matter were yet to come.

“Its been a good start, the girls have practiced hard, they’ve been focused on what the plan is,” Springthorpe said. “Our real season begins now with conference play against Carolina on Friday.”

Springthorpe’s team, which plays the No. 1 team in the na-tion, University of North Car-olina-Chapel Hill next, has a plan to fight it out against the Tarheels.

“We will have to play a little differently than we have played in the non-conference sched-ule,” Springthorpe said. “They will provide a different type of challenge and I would expect that we would do our best to limit their opportunities at goal. I wouldn’t be surprised if we were more defensive, but we are still going try and score goals and win the game.”

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Solution to Friday’s puzzle

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evening’s game, which they played the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. It didn’t even occur to us that my father’s middle name is James.

It was the first time we attended a Yankee game since the terrorist attacks, and probably the first time I had seen my father since the aftermath as well.

The Yankees returning to baseball became one of the public symbols of New York returning to normal, but for me it took on a per-sonal meaning at that point.

I’m sure all of you have seen the public spectacle that the Yankees put on with the FDNY and NYPD, but when I saw my father, brother and myself together again, watching our favorite team in our hometown, it was just how things used to be.

For me, that is one of the little things from my child-hood that brought every-thing into prospective.

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Pack beats UNF, moves season record to 7-1women’s soccer

their lives. KristopherKorne-gay-Gober, a junior who was the top high jumper on State’s track and field team last season, attended high school in Wash-ington, D.C. and lived close by in Maryland beforehand.

His cousin was one of those 2,600 workers, residing just two sides of the building away from where the attacks happened.

“My family wasn’t directly involved, but I always wonder what could have happened that day,”Kornegay-Gober said. “My cousin was so close to the attacks and the intended target was the White House. That isn’t far away from where I live.”

Kornegay-Gober’s story is akin to that of many children who went to school in the D.C. area that day. Having been sent home shortly after news broke of the 9:37 a.m. attack, inno-cent minds returned to their

families with little to no un-derstanding of the day’s mag-nitude.

“I remember in fourth grade we were watching news re-ports on what had happened in Arlington [site of the Pen-tagon],” Kornegay-Gober said. “They cancelled school almost instantaneously. At the time, I just thought a plane had gone into a building, but everything changed when I got home. The fact that it was an attack changed how I was thinking.”

In a country where sports is widely an entertainment outlet relatively detached from life’s more pressing issues, the at-tacks have created a profound impact on viewing sports. Ko-rnegay-Gober, an athlete whose mother served in the military, felt the impact when attending an NFL game shortly after the attacks.

“For my birthday, we drove up to a Baltimore Ravens game,” Kornegay-Gober said. “During the national anthem

and during the halftime tribute to the military, you could tell there was a spark in patriotism. My mom, who had retired from the military, felt that unity in the stadium.”

Three years later, the first post-9/11 Summer Olympic Games were held in Athens, Greece. Focusing in on the sporting world’s role to rep-resent unity no matter the circumstance, the junior said he vividly remembers how the United States came together to

cheer on all different types of athletes, including track and field athletes.

“I think 2004 in Athens was a very special moment,” Korne-gay-Gober said. “It really put into perspective what sports means to our country.

“I know it meant a lot to me. It still does to this day.”

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Acclimation after the 9/11 tragedy.

Jeniece JamisonSenior Staff Writer

The Yankees have always been a huge part of my conscious-ness in professional sports. Of

course, being a Bronx na-tive does play a huge role in my fan allegiance, but my father’s influence defi-nitely pul led

me to what outsiders know as the ‘Evil Empire.’

Every father/daughter rela-tionship has its own special type of bonding. Ours was going to Yankee games and watching the heroes of the 90’s and early 2000s take the field.

In August of 2001, my parents moved our family to Charlotte, N.C. My father was still work-ing in New York, so he still had to go back and forth between the two cities. On the day of the September 11th attacks, my father was supposed to fly back to New York, so naturally my concern went towards my father because his f light was supposed to leave at the same time of the fatal planes. Thank-fully, nothing happened and he remained in the airport for the rest of the day.

When I returned to New York for the first time since the attacks, one of the first places I visited was my aunt’s office. When I looked out the window of her office, the first thing I saw was Ground Zero with an American flag sticking out from the rubble. It was the first time that the attacks be-came real to me, as in it set into my consciousness, so nothing about my hometown was as I remembered it.

But later on in the trip, a sign of reassurance came along with my favorite team. When I went to visit my grandfather, he said that we had to go to the Bronx to meet a man named James to buy fish. This already seemed odd enough to my brother and I, but little did we know that we would get one of the best surprises of our life.

We waited a few blocks away from Yankee Stadium to meet this ‘James’ with my grandfa-ther. We waited for about 45 minutes until we got suspi-cious, but then my father ap-peared from around the cor-ner with Yankee tickets for the

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Demons still haunt Pack; O’Brien searches for leadership.

Sean FairholmDeputy Sports Editor

As Wake Forest quarterback, Tanner Price, cut through State’s defense with effortless precision, Coach Tom O’Brien was focusing on another defini-tion of effortless.

“They had more energy than we did,” O’Brien said. “And you can’t do that, especially on the road in a conference game. We have to look for leadership.

“And we certainly haven’t gotten any right now from anybody on this football team.”

The questions of concern are escalating quickly after N.C. State’s (1-1, 0-1 ACC) disap-pointing 34-27 loss to Wake Forest (1-1, 1-0 ACC) on Sat-urday.

Prior to Glennon and the offense rallying with 63- and 65-yard touchdown bombs to Tobais Palmer and T.J. Gra-ham, last year’s Atlantic divi-sion cellar dweller had already shredded State’s pass defense for 313 yards and a humiliat-ing 14.3 yards per completion. Seemingly devastated by the absences of key senior defen-sive linemen J.R. Sweezy and Jeff Reiskamp, the Pack defense

had already built a mountain for the offense to climb by the time halftime arrived at BB&T Field.

“We haven’t played defense like this in God knows how long,” O’Brien said. “There were so many big plays. You come in knowing you’re going to get the reverses and the re-verse passes, and it looked like we had never seen one of those things ever.”

Although O’Brien made a firm point that there are no positives associated with los-ing, he did vow to push his team hard in the coming days. While at N.C. State, O’Brien has a 0-3 record at Wake For-est and a 0-11 record in Atlantic division games on the road.

“We have a lot of work to do and I’m going to make sure we get it done,” O’Brien said. “There are a lot of games left to play and a lot of good foot-ball players on this team. Some of these guys need to wake up. This isn’t last year.

“We need to come out with a whole different mindset and energy that we haven’t been getting out of this football team.”

Shortly after his coach dis-cussed the team’s loss, co-captain George Bryan also an-swered questions on the mental state of the Wolfpack. Having been a reliable and productive

source of offense for the past three seasons, Bryan has per-plexed many in the first two games—the senior has almost as many dropped passes as he does receptions (three).

“We have to forget about the team from last year,” Bryan said. “I don’t even know why guys would be thinking about that. That’s last year. We have to focus on what we’re doing.”

While Bryan is one of the official captains of the team, State’s anticipated leader, Mike Glennon calmly displayed con-

fidence that the lethargic early season performance would be turned around.

“We can still accomplish what we want to,” Glennon said. “We can still win out and win the ACC. If we just work hard in the weeks to come we can still win the ACC.”

Glennon, whose impressive stat line of 315 passing yards, three touchdowns, and one in-terception, was overshadowed by the disappointing confer-ence loss.

“Really what it comes down

to is the win-loss record,” Glennon said. “I don’t think [showing people I can play] matters. Our job as quarter-backs is to put more points on the board than they have.”

State will have an oppor-tunity to turn its fortunes around starting this Satur-day at home versus South Alabama. The following week, the Pack travels to Cincinnati for a Thursday night game against the Bearcats.

football

Wake up call in Winston-Salem

alex sanchez/Technicianredshirt junior cornerback Gary Grant watches the third quarter of the game against Wake forest on bb&t field saturday. the Wolfpack lost to the Demon Deacons 34-27.

Gymnast Jess Panza and high jumper Kristopher Kornegay-Gober recall their stories.

Sean FairholmDeputy Sports Editor

On a gorgeous September morning, painted with pure blue skies, Jess Panza headed off to school. Tenw years later, the Long Island native and N.C. State senior is a part of the Wolfpack gymnastic team.

What happened early that morning would forever change the way New York residents lived their lives. Fortunate to not be deeply affected by Sep-tember 11th, Panza now looks back on every accomplishment that follows as a blessing.

“It’s just unreal,” Panza said. “Now that I’m older and I do watch [videos on 9/11], I wish that I could have remembered more than I did. As much as

it seems so far away, it’s really not. Anything could have hap-pened if one of the planes ac-cidentally went down in Long Island.

“I couldn’t imagine being how old I am now and having that happen. It definitely would have impacted me a lot more.”

Panza’s father was one of the unsung heroes in the hours and days following the attacks. As a Long Island police officer, he helped with the clean-up in lower Manhattan. This con-nection was not the only one to impact Panza’s family.

“My grandparent’s friends were f irefighters and their sons were firefighters,” Panza said. “One of them was killed. There are a lot of people that you know that are firefighters and policemen, and so many of them passed away.”

Although any events on the day are difficult to put into words, Panza related the hours following the tower’s collapse

to one part of nature many southerners have experienced.

“It was kind of how a for-est fire would be here,” Panza said. “Within about four or five hours, it was really hazy and foggy on Long Island. It didn’t necessarily affect me person-ally, but I was definitely aware of how serious it was.”

While admitting she does not follow sports very closely, Panza made specific mention of the New York Yankees’ first home game after the attacks. Playing what was then the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Panza said the whole city rejoiced in the opportunity to cheer on their favorite team. Across the nation, returning to sports helped remove our eyes from all different degrees of emo-tional scar tissue.

“It brought a sense of unity to not just New York, but the entire nation,” Panza said. “From a horrible situation, sports brought many people

together.”Cheering for separate teams,

in a country with deep roots of heated rivals, brought focus to a bigger team of over 300 mil-lion people.

Among the 2,600 people working at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, 125 lost

Athletes reflect on 9/11 impactsLocaL pro and coLLege sports timeLine foLLowing 9/11September 21, 2001 – Mike Piazza hits a home run to lift the New York Mets over the Atlanta Braves in the first professional sporting event since 9/11

September 22, 2001 – After defeating Indiana to start the season, N.C. State’s football team has next weekend’s game – originally scheduled for September 13th – moved back one week. The Pack was victorious over Southern Methodist, 26-17

September 23, 2001 – The

Carolina Panthers return to football after the NFL canceled the previous week’s games. Playing in Atlanta, the Panthers lost 24-16 to the Falcons. They would drop their next 14 games and go 1-15 on the season.

October 5, 2001 – With fans cheering the New York Rangers as they stepped on to Raleigh Entertainment and Sports Arena (now the RBC Center), the Carolina Hurricanes opened the 2001-2002 season. The ‘Canes won the game 3-1 and would eventually reach the Stanley Cup Finals eight months later

compiled by: sean Fairholm

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