MORGANTOWN – In the immediate days following Sept. 11, 2001, Joy Faini Saab went from being the professor in front of the classroom – to the mom in front of the classroom. That’s because the students training to be teachers in her early childhood education classes at West Virginia ...
EDITOR'S NOTE: Today’s editorial has been adapted from one that originally published Sept. 11, 2021. The average college student has no true memory of Sept. 11, 2001. Neither do current high school, middle school or elementary school students. They were too young — if they had even ...
by Carl P. Leubsdorf From the outset, the grim parallels have been uncanny. Both the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and the Sept. 11, 2001 al-Qaida attack on the United States were unexpected, unprovoked terrorist attacks that took thousands of innocent lives and exacerbated global ...
by Tom H. Hastings If you an adult born after, say, 1995, you probably recall a fair bit about the terrible events of Sept. 11, 2001. For most Americans, the terror attack which turned three commercial airliners full of passengers into guided missiles came as a bolt out of the blue, ...
SHANKSVILLE, Pa. — The first thing you notice about Frank Siller is the resolve in his mission. Each step he takes along Shanksville Road on the outskirts of this Somerset County town is done with purpose. The sound the steps make is a forward motion; there is no hint of retreat. You ...
by Stuart V. Pavilack The Dominion Post published a guest essay Aug. 22 entitled “Teaching about Sept. 11 in America.” It had less to do with teaching than to slander our country, its leadership and Israel. Does anyone believe the United States is involved in choosing Saudi ...