VIDEO: Reliving 9/11
The following is a selection of edited responses to our call for readers’ recollections of Sept. 11, 2001. For space reasons, we were not able to print all of the submissions.
Sept. 11: On this date 10 years ago I was…
The memory never fades. Ask anyone where they were that Tuesday morning in September 2001, and their recollection is as vivid today as it was then.
Starkville, Oktibbeha to honor firefighters with tribute events
STARKVILLE — The call of duty, no matter the time or place, is part of the job for emergency responders. Even when the distress call is sent from more than 1,000 miles away.
Sept. 11, 2001 at Golden Triangle Regional Airport
Nick Ardillo was at his second-floor office at the Golden Triangle Regional Airport. Airport employees were rushing up the stairs to give him the news.
Pastors struggle to find words to comfort on 10th anniversary of attacks
Ten years is a long time, but the wound the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks inflicted on the American psyche has had a deep effect, prompting many to re-examine mortality, morality and faith. Even for pastors, the answers do not come easily.
Fighting for freedom: Columbus native saw 9/11 as a call to defend the country
Jesse Havard was a sophomore at New Hope High School, making his way from P.E. to English class.
As students settled into their desks, “there (were) whispers of the towers in New York being struck,” he recalled.
Two events to honor Lowndes first responders
Being first to respond to an emergency is not an easy job. Pulling someone from a fire or saving them from some other emergency can be “overwhelming,” admits Neal Austin, Columbus Fire and Rescue operations chief. But it’s also rewarding.
Ruck March to Remember: 2,181-mile walk pays homage to 9-11 victims
Ten years have passed, but Maj. Joseph Ringer of Columbus Air Force Base remembers the day as if it was yesterday. He was on a bus in Texas with his fellow airmen, headed to the Security Forces Academy at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio.
Ruck March to Remember: 2,181-mile walk pays homage to 9-11 victims
Ten years have passed, but Maj. Joseph Ringer of Columbus Air Force Base remembers the day as if it was yesterday. He was on a bus in Texas with his fellow airmen, headed to the Security Forces Academy at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio.
Community honors sacrifice of Lowndes first responders
Following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, first responders showed the nation the price of their service.