United We Stand

Campus and community gather to mark 9/11 anniversary

by MaryAlice Bitts-Jackson; video by Joe O'Neill

Each year on Sept. 11, Americans are called to remember those who died during the 2001 attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., and those killed in flight 93, brought down in Pennsylvania by passengers thwarting yet another attack. At Dickinson, we mark the anniversary of those tragic events with a Patriot Day service that brings students, faculty and administrators together with members of the local community to recall and reflect.

To honor the nearly 3,000 people who lost their lives during the 2001 attacks, Dickinson’s ROTC color guard lowered the flag on the Benjamin Rush campus, and President Nancy A. Roseman and Lori van Handel laid a wreath at the base of the flagpole. Donald Roeder, a local bugler and veteran, played the traditional military song “Taps." Donna Hughes, director of the Center for Service, Spirituality and Social Justice, delivered a nondenominational prayer that focused on the palpable sense of unity among Americans in the aftermath of 9/11.

That message struck a chord with Brian Reid ’17, a double major in mathematics and music and member of the Blue Mountain Battalion ROTC. “It’s vital that we use this [ceremony] to unify as a nation, as a college,” he said.

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• Department of Military Science/ROTC
• "At the Corner of Music and Math"
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Published September 11, 2015