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After the jump is a video just posted by SMU and the school’s Maguire Center for Ethics & Public Responsibility in which student Christina Rancke, Class of 2013, talks about losing her father in the collapse of the World Trade Center’s south tower on September 11, 2001. She was in seventh grade at the time, and was pulled aside in gym class, she says, and told “there was an accident at the World Trade Center.” It would take months before her father was officially pronounced dead.
Ranke and Rais Bhuiyan are among those scheduled to participate in myriad events planned on the Hilltop beginning September 7 and culminating with a Service of Remembering, presided over by SMU President R. Gerald Turner and chaplain Stephen Rankin, on September 11. A full schedule of events also follows.
On September 8, in the Meadows Museum Sculpture Garden, the university will also plant 2,977 flags, one for each of those killed in the terror attacks of 10 years ago. The university has also launched this website: 9/11 Remembered, where the university requests you “share with us your memories of that fateful day.”
