Thursday September 8, 2011 3Index

Local memorial events

Memorial wall honors Joplin and 9/11 victims

Dan Warner/IndexSophomore Geoffery Havens invites people to sign the SERVE Center’s memory wall for those killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks and in this year’s Joplin tornado in the Student Union Building on Tuesday afternoon. The SERVE Center will be in the SUB with the sign from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. the rest of the week.

6.75years to build the World Trade Center

20percent increase in church and synagogue attendance in Manhattan the week after 9/11

$100 millionvalue of art lost in the attacks, including works by Picasso and Miro

144wedding rings found in the debris after the attacks

200funerals attended by then New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani

115nations whose citizens were killed in the attacks

3,051children who lost a parent in the attacks

according to nationalpost.com and newyorkmag.com

The numbers behind the attacks

What kind of impact has 9/11 had on your generation?

I didn’t care. I was 8 years old. It didn’t really seem like a big deal to me. When you’re eight, you don’t really care.

Has the concept of 9/11 changed during the last 10 years?

A decade later, Kirksville community still feels weight of terrorist attacksBY JACKIE KINEAlYNews Editor index.newseditor@gmail.com

Two students chained themselves to the doors of the SUB while two others distributed fliers at the fountain. It happened 10 years ago, weeks after Sept. 11, and the students were protesting the national pull toward war imme-diately after the attacks.

Nearing its 10th anniversary, the immedi-ate impact of Sept. 11 somewhat has faded and the SUB is quieter. But 9/11 remains a powerful force, and its impact on ideas about the role of politics, the military and the Muslim world still is present.

Truman alumnus Ed Jenkins was one of the four protestors outside the SUB 10 years ago. He calls himself a radical and said the student body in 2001 leaned con-servatively. But Jenkins said most students listened to the message despite different political views.

Ten years later, partisanship dissolves again. College Republicans and College Democrats are hosting a joint memorial vigil at 8:30 p.m. Sept. 11 on The Quad, College Republicans member Vinciane Ngomsi said. She said there will be a non-partisan discussion of the attacks hosted by the Leadership Forum.

In the military science department, 9/11 and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan directly impacted how professors teach students.

Starting in Fall 2001, the reality of war sunk

into military science classrooms, military sci-ence professor Doug Reinch said. He said it seemed like students listened more in class and took lessons like the Army’s seven core values more seriously.

“[The core values] were words to students before, but they had more gravity after,” he said.

Cadets now are taught to use different meth-ods of combat in light of 9/11 and subsequent wars, said Lieutenant Colonel Tenpenny, mili-tary science professor. ROTC students receive cultural awareness training regarding interact-ing with the local population in war zones rath-er than solely focusing on weapons and tactics.

From a non-military perspective, 9/11 changed the lives of Muslim-Americans such as senior Hazar Khidir.

Khidir said she watched the TV with the rest of her sixth grade class as the twin tow-ers burned, but she was the only Muslim stu-dent there. She said she realized in the com-ing days her situation was different from her classmates.

“Initially I was like every other student, but that kind of shifted in the days after that because it came out that [the hijackers] were Muslim and it was a terrorist attack and this whole dialogue of Muslim extremism grew out of that,” she said.

She said her parents told her to keep a low profile because they worried she might be the victim of hateful speech or an vio-lence. Although Khidir never was a target herself, she said she overheard negative slurs about Muslims, which was upsetting.

She said that during the last decade there seems to be more awareness that the 9/11 acts of terrorism were committed by extremists and the vast majority of Mus-lims are not part of that sect.

Screening of “In Memory: New York City, 9/11”

Sept. 11 2 - 4 p.m. VH 1000

Hosted by the SERVE Center

Memorial Vigil Sept. 11

8:30 p.m. The Quad

Hosted by College Democrats and College

Republicans

Non-partisan discussion Sept. 11

4 p.m. The Quad

Hosted by the Leadership Forum

9/11 Memorial ServiceSept. 11

2 - 3 p.m. at Rotary Park Amphitheater

Hosted by Kirksville Interchurch Ministries

It kind of hit home years ago. I was like, a lot of people did lose their lives and it affects our foreign policy and everything America is nowadays.

freshman Karmen Young

sophomore Rachel Burke

junior Tim Jones

I think it opened our eyes to what could actually happen. There are evil people in the world and anything can happen.

Yeah, I think anytime a tragic event like that happens people become more unified.

junior Michael Delcau

How did you understand the attacks when they happened?

Didn’t think much of it at first but then when once they said ‘No, this is what actually happened,’ then it hits you.

It’ll help us understand what’s coming up in the future. There will be more big events that we live through.

Sophomore Becky Delaware

freshman Jordan Moorhouse

9/11 hits home