The Spectrum

Issue date: 9/15/05 Section: News

Media Credit: AP Photo/The Observer-Dispatch, Trevor Kapralos Alex Dudajek, stands with his wife, Helen, as Cindy Bowman, background center, sits next to her granddaughter, Taylor Kelly, 5, during a moment of silence before the start of a Silent March to honor the heroes of of the 9/11 terrorist attacks Sunday, Sept. 11, 2005, in New York Mills, N.Y. Several hundred members of the community participated in the silent march.

September 11, 2005 - Four years after an event that forever changed our country, Beta Delta Phi, Kappa Phi and Zeta Iota Lambda sponsored an on-campus candlelight vigil Sunday evening to remember the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center.

As Sacred Heart students came together to remember those victims of 9/11 at the candlelight vigil, some felt overwhelmed by the current situation that many people are facing around the Gulf Coast.

At Ground Zero in New York City, friends and relatives of the victims gathered for a four-hour remembrance ceremony.

As 2,749 names of those victims were announced, sobs and cries escaped from the crowd.

And while the emotional pain of post-9/11 is and will always be felt by people across the country and the world, many have their current focus on Hurricane Katrina and the devastating effects it has had on the Gulf Coast.

Before families and friends read the names of victims, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg expressed his deepest condolences to those affected by Hurricane Katrina.

Although Hurricane Katrina has certainly shifted focus away from this year's 9/11 remembrance ceremonies, it has not been completely over shadowed.

"Today is 9/11 and I think about those that lost their lives in New York and at the Pentagon but then I think about the thousands of people who have just lost everything in New Orleans. It's just too similar to what happened four years ago," said Senior Amanda Martin from Maine.

President George W. Bush made a poignant statement on Sunday, calling attention to the fact that we are once again a nation plagued by a terrible tragedy.

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