University of North Alabama - Diorama Yearbook

“FLAG FLYING. Residents of the Shoals, like others across the nation, displayed their colors on all public occasions in the weeks after the tragic events of September 11. CANDLELIGHT VIGIL, (below) In response to President George W. Bush ' s request , Grace Simpson ' s family paused at 7 p.m. September 14 in the midst of a wedding rehearsal at Coby Hall, to go out- side and light candles in remem- brance of the victims of terrorism. wrote it, and my hands shake now, nearly two months later, as I revise it for the Diorama. I am sure my hands will shake five months on, when the Diorama sees print and I read what I have written. A lot can happen in five months. If September 11 taught us anything, it is that a lot can happen in five seconds. The staff of the Diorama and The Flor-Ala, and no doubt the students, faculty and staff of the uni- versity, would like to pay their respects to those who suffered as a result of the events of that fateful Tuesday. To the passengers of Flight 93, which went down in Pennsylvania; to those unfortunate souls inside the Pentagon and the World Trade Center; to the rescue workers and bystanders who were too close to the Towers when they fell; to the passengers of the airplanes that were converted into flying bombs; to the families and friends of those individu- als; to any innocent person, of any nation, who has lost or will lose his or her life in the coming months of retaliation and necessary retribution: For what it ' s worth, we give these pages to you. — Marc Mitchell ”