Robert Crohan/Staff Writer We often look back at prior decades as an ancient time. And rather interestingly, the 2000s feels older to our generation than the 1980s and 1990s. The worst terrorist attack in human history is now twenty years old. It was an assault on America, on freedom, on humanity, one that has moved […]
Diego Diaz / Assistant News Director September 11th, 2001, the day that changed the course of American history. A day which marks the loss of 2,977 American citizens, all of whom thought they would be returning home to their loved ones following the end of their shift. “Anybody who went to a hospital on 9/11 […]
Maya Washburn / Asst. News Director FIU honored the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks through a heartfelt vigil. The ceremony on Friday, Sept. 10, highlighted nearly 3,000 lives lost during the tragedy 20 years ago. Powerful words and songs were led by University leaders, a bagpipe procession and a candlelight vigil in the Graham […]
Uzi Darwiche/ Staff Writer I will never forget that day. I was at my school locker trying to get the right combination when I heard one of the lunch crew say that some airplanes had hit the towers and that they had collapsed. I had been inside the towers three months earlier with my mother, […]
Ben Fox/ AP Writer Lawyers for the five Guantanamo Bay prisoners charged in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks want to know if U.S. government officials have been eavesdropping on their private conversations with the defendants. The evidence for any such listening, the subject of a hearing that started Monday at this U.S. base in Cuba, is circumstantial. At a […]
