This past week, the NAU Conservatives honored those who were murdered in the terrorist attacks in Washington D.C., New York City, and Pennsylvania on September 11th, 2001. They did so by sticking a flag for each victim into green spray-painted styrofoam, which was then placed on the student union amphitheatre, a heavy-traffic area on campus. Coming by the event to offer their perspectives on this infamous day in history, Hugh Kealer and Bradley Beauchamp, leaders in the local conservative movement, talked about what 9-11 meant to them and the need for continued vigilance against attacks on American soil. Later on, the NAU Conservatives read aloud the name of each victim and concluded the memorial with the a showing of "102 Minutes That Changed America," a 9-11 documentary created by the History Channel.
While most onlookers appreciated the 9-11 memorial, a few dirt bags had the audacity to come and ask sarcastically if the purpose of the memorial was to commemorate victims of the Iraq war. One of them also posed the question as to why American flags were put out for those victims who were foreigners. Despite these absurdities, the event was successful in maintaining awareness of 9-11 at the NAU campus and the need to never let such an attack occur on American soil again.
Read coverage of the event at NAZ Today and The Lumberjack.
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