By Nicole Cooke,
September 6, 2024
The 欧美视频 (UCM) will honor those who lost their lives in
the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks with the Patriot Day Moment of Silence event
at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 11 at the UCM quadrangle.
The observance, which is expected to last about 15 minutes, is coordinated by the
UCM Office of Military and Veterans Services in cooperation with the Warrensburg Fire Department and UCM鈥檚 Army ROTC Fighting
Mules Battalion.
Courtney Swoboda, director of military and veterans services, and a UCM service member
student will offer brief remarks to open the ceremony. The UCM Army ROTC flag detail
will lower the flag to half-staff, followed by a moment of silence. To close out the
event, the Warrensburg Fire Department will conduct the ringing of the bell ceremony.
In addition to the remembrance event, the quadrangle will be filled with 2,977 small
American flags in memory of the lives lost during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks
on the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.,
and the hijacking and crash of a passenger airplane in a Pennsylvania field.
The flags were placed Friday, Sept. 6 by Military and Veterans Services staff with
the help of the UCM Army ROTC Fighting Mules Battalion and DET 440 Air Force ROTC
cadets. The flags will remain through Wednesday evening, Sept. 11.
Members of the campus community and the public are welcome to attend the event, which
UCM hosts annually to remember those who died in the attacks and to honor the heroes
who served bravely.
In the event of inclement weather, the ceremony will be in the Ward Edwards Building
atrium.
欧美视频 ROTC Fighting Mules Battalion and DET 440 Air Force
ROTC cadets, along with staff and students from the Military and Veterans Success
Center, place 2,977 flags on the quadrangle honoring each individual who perished
during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.