This week, Bob Jones University commemorates the events of Sept. 11, 2001, through its annual flag display on front campus. Memorials over the past 24 years have reminded Americans of the shocking terrorist attacks that have left resounding implications on our country today.
Now, as the vast majority of current students were born in a post-9/11 world, several shared their perspectives of the day and its legacy, along with Mrs. Linda Abrams of the history faculty.
Mrs. Abrams said 9/11 impacted her on several different levels, first because it was the first major attack on the United States during her lifetime.
“I think it’s analogous to the way my parents felt about Pearl Harbor, and so there are these major generational historical mileposts along the way,” she said. “And for me it’s the kind of thing everybody in my generation knows where they were when they heard. I can still remember where I was and what I was doing. It was like it was yesterday.”…