UND ROTC holds 24-hour Sept. 11 vigil
September 11, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
The Roughnecks Drill Team of the UND’s ROTC program held a 24-hour vigil at the flagpoles in front of the Memorial Union throughout the day of Sept. 11, starting at midnight.
The developer of an Islamic cultural center that opened Wednesday evening near the site of the terrorist attacks that leveled the World Trade Center says the biggest error on the project was not involving the families of 9/11 victims from the start.
The momentous anniversary has come and gone, and the nation will move forward, as always. Yet to many Americans, the concept of “moving on” from Sept. 11 doesn’t make sense.
The FBI says three people detained after a flight landed in Detroit on the anniversary of 9/11 did nothing wrong.
The plot of land that has been known for a decade as “the pile,” “the pit” and “ground zero” is opening to the public for the first time since that terrible morning in 2001, transformed into a memorial consisting of two serene reflecting pools ringed by the engraved names of the nearly 3,000 souls lost. 
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