MORGANTOWN—Westover's Deputy Chief Scott Carl and his wife had just woken up to care for their newborn daughter when they turned on the television and first heard about the attacks occurring at the World Trade Center. At the time, Carl was working for the Morgantown Police Department. At ...
My Sept. 11, 2001, happened, in part, on Sept. 12, 2001. And Sept. 13, 2001. That’s when I began talking to experts in earnest — after everyone was frozen in the amber of that new Day of Infamy. I had to get some words in my notebook. I had to try to assign some meaning to the ...
The morning was already tragic enough, Eddie Campbell Jr. remembered. “Well, then we got the news of the plane going into The Pentagon,” he said, “and that changed everything.” These days, Campbell is superintendent of Monongalia County’s school district. On Sept. 11, 2001, ...
It was a quiet morning. September 11, 2001. Jonathon Vrabel, operations manager for the Dayton International Airport, was chatting in the airport director’s office when a startling bit of video interrupted the conversation. “We’re watching this video of a 767 striking the World ...
MORGANTOWN -- There’s a mostly paraphrased quote out there attributed to Robert Frost that goes something like this: “Poetry makes you remember what you didn’t know you knew.” It definitely went like that for Tyler Evans on a somewhat cloudy Friday afternoon on the campus of ...
On Sept. 11, I was 2 years old. Part of a generation unaware of the world before the 9/11 attacks occurred, it is difficult to say how life is different for me now. The extent of my experience comes from second-hand accounts— teachers who shared documentaries and taught what happened on ...