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Show NEWS A6 Where were you on that historical day in Sept.? of the day, watching things unfold. -Mike Cox "I was in Guatemala serving a mission for the LDS church, and I remember I was in the bathroom taking a shower when I heard a knock at the front door. My roommate went and answered it. He came back in, and I asked him who it was and he said 'oh, it was just our neighbors telling us that some building in New York was just bombed.' I didn't really think a whole lot of it, thinking about the Oklahoma City bombing and that didn't affect me too much. We got ready for the day and as we started to leave, we walked down the alley way and noticed that all the neighbors were kind of crowded around one bulding or one room and as I was walking by, I glanced inside the door right in time to see the second airplane run into the other building and watched it collapse, and I just froze in my tracks. They all turned around and saw me, and quickly invited me in knowing that I was the one American there. So they dragged me in and sat me down, and I was still kind of dumbfounded as I stared at the TV and started to see all the information and understand more or less what was going on. The rest of the day, we were told by the President of the mission that we weren't allowed to go to any American buildings or anything of the sort, at least until things calmed down. We were told to go watch the news. It was kind of a stunning experience as we sat and watched the television for the rest "I was in third grade and I had just come in from recess and everyone was crowded around the TV." -Brittney Giles "I was in second period French class. I was a sophomore in high school when they announced it over the intercom at school. They ended up canceling school that day." -David Luangrath "We had just gotten in from recess in the third grade and they pulled it up on the TV." -Bre Willardson "I was in third grade and I had just woken up and went into the living room." -Makinzie Saxey "I had just woken up and went out to the living room and saw it on TV. My parents were crying." -Joey Hall "I was about 12, and I remember waking up and my aunt telling me to turn on the TV because she got a call from a friend in New York. We were living with them at the time. We turned it on right as the towers collapsed. So I remember thinking 'what is that?' It seemed like a movie or something, but I realized it was live. We were one of the only schools that was open that day." -Jackie Knudson "I went to class and the TV's were on in the classroom showing what had happened and to everyone's amazement and horror, we saw the second airplane hit the second tower and then we saw one of the buildings fall. Then they turned the TV's off because we had to take a test, and we were all sort of stunned and shocked. The whole time, while were taking our history test, I remember thinking, this is actually history being made right now. We finished the test, and when we turned the TV back on, the other building had fallen." -Richard Portwood "I was just getting to school when I was in eighth grade junior high, and it was on TV." -Ashley Ensign "I was in the 6th grade in my math class when I heard about 9/11." -Danny Vasquez "I was in my fourth grade class in California." -Rene Vasquez "I remember I had just woken up and was thinking what the heck is going on. I remember seeing towers and the fire, and being a young kid not knowing what to think or do. It was just a wired day." -Parker Frischknechg #17r141 A . L.VIOV "I was in the sixth grade, and my mom was yelling at me to get out of the shower because a plane hit a building, and I just had a towel on as I watched the a plane hit the other building. I never thought anything like that would ever happen in my life. It was one of those things that you read about and learned about, but never really came to life. It was pretty crazy." -Trevor Hudspeth "Everyone was talking about it on the school bus then all day we weren't learning anything in class. We were just watching the news. Everyone was just focused on that one thing." -Matt Petersen "I was on my way to work when it happened. I got to work at 8 a.m. and bought a TV from Shopko with the rabbit ear anten- nas. We watched the news in black and white and listened to the radio all day. I remember the manager was freaking out and I was completely shocked. No one came in the store that day." -Jonathan Boldt I was a freshman in High School in Philadelphia. I was in my first period class when they announced that the first plane hit. They turned on the TVs right away and we watched the towers collapse. We were glued to the TVs the rest of the time and as soon as the plane in Pennsylvania crashed, they let us out of school. Because we didn't know what was going on they were afraid that something would happen in Philly. -Vanessa Perkins I was home sick from school that day. My mom called me into her room really concerned and tried to explain what happened as we watched the screen. I didn't understand it, but was confused at the channels all being the same thing, thinking wow this is a big deal. -Tiffany Thatcher I was in my fourth grade elementary school class. We went out to the flagpole when we got the news. I was in school in California so our parents were franticly worrying. -Mike Arnette I was late for school the day the attacks happened. My mom was watching the news on TV and would rather watch that then take us to school. -Erika Taylor Peace and Justice Studies Fall 20 11 Event September 29: Betty Makoni1 .-- September 12: Invisible Children 1:00 p.m.-2:15 p.m., Library Auditorium LI 120 September 12-13: Legacies of the Civil Rights Symposium ement September 12: 7:00-8:15 Reinembering the Movement, Dr. l les Payne September 13; 8:30-9:45 Utah's Freedom Riders (KUED film: , 10:00-11:15 Scholarship and Teaching Models of Actiyism, Dr. Charles Payne,-Di;_ Lynn England, and Arctie Archuleta 11:30-12:45 New Civil Rights. Scholarship: Student and Community Empowerment-Dr. John Dittmer, Dr. Wesley Hogan, and-Diego Ibanez. All Events will take place, in LI 120 September 13-15: "What is, aism?" Symposium September 15, 11:30-12:45: Mic.h1 -Parenti, "Profit Pathology and Its Alternatives." Dr. Parenti. Ph.D, Yale, is the author of 23 books and 320 articles. His work has been translated into 19 languages. All Events will take place in LI 120 (Organized by UVU RSU) September 22: Twenty-Fifth Annual Ethics and Public Polig ymposium: "Fixing a Broken Economy" 9:3Q a.m.-5:15 p.m., LI 120 0 UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY PEACE AND JUSTICE STUDIES For more information email Dr. Michael Minch at mminch@uvu.edu or visit the PJST website at www.uvu.edu/peaceandjustice 4404146r• Founder and Director of Girl Child Networ *(dtN) Zimbabwe, and is also the CEO of Girl Child Network Worldwide (GCNW), anew.", organization that champions the rights of girls _g-lob-ally. Since 1999, Betty has mobilized and e ered over 300X6 girls so alley reach their full ___...' potential. -. 1:00 .m.-2:1 ii yes of the Silenced Sep ember 30:- Occ. Majority" Abdallah Orneish, Film offer A powerful docuinentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 11:00 a.m-2:00 p.m.,1,11;120 November 3: 6th annual Restorative Justice and Death Penalty Symposium 8:30 a.m.-3:45 p.m., LI 120 - • November 14-15:. Symposium on Peacebuilding, Conflict Transformation, and Reconciliation November 14: 9:00-4:00 and -NtiYember 15: 8:30-3:45 This summer 18 UVIX5tudents spent four weeks in Northern Ireland studying the conflict and the peacebuilding process. They worked in two graduate prograrnsjncluding the Institute for Conflict Research at the University of Ulster, and interviewed ex-combatants, ex-prisoners, -victims, police officers, mediators, negotiators, elected officials, community builders, scholars, and others. They have returned to UVU with demanding research programs. Join us on November 14 and 15 to learn about how conflict is transformed into sustainable peace and reconciliation is achieved in war-torn societies. All events will take place in LI 120 |