THE
Clarion
Volume 76, Issue 2
www.brevard.edu/clarion
SERVING BREVARD COLLEGE SINCE 1935
Why Asheville High is
“home” for BC football
in 2010, page 5
Sept. 10, 2010
Remembering 9/11: Student & faculty perspectives
By John M. Climer
Editor in Chief
Saturday commemorates the ninth anniversary
of the terrorist attacks in New York City and
Washington, D.C. on September 11, 2001.
Most of us will never forget where we were
and what we were doing when the first images of
smoke billowing out of the World Trade Center
towers were broadcast to us from every news
network in the country.
For me, September 11, 2001 is particularly
memorable because the next day was my 16th
birthday and my parents had planned a surprise
party for me. Needless to say, neither 1 nor my
friends were in a celebratory mood the next
evening.
When talking to others about their memories
of September 11,2001,1 found that many people
have similar stories about the circumstances
surrounding their own life as the events unfolded
in New York City.
Senior Daniel Heyman recalls his experience,
saying, “1 was in middle school when it
happened. 1 remember when they made the
announcement, and then one of our history
teachers started telling us about the history
In this issue...
News:
Constitution Day
BC Event Calendar.
Security Report
Faculty Art Show
Opinion:
Constitutionality vs. Common Sense.. 4
‘Social Distortion' at Brevard 4
Football games at AHS 5
Arts & Life:
Chef Boy-ar-Dave 6
Apple Fest 6
‘A Taste of Transylvania' 6
Sports:
Tornado Scoreboard 7
Odds and Ends:
Your Horoscope 8
American Hero 8
between the US and Osama Bin Taden. 1
realized that it was going to be a waste of a
school day, so 1 walked home, because my
house is right across the street from my middle
school. 1 didn’t realize the significance of what
happened until my mom explained it to me.”
Senior Zack Christy recalls a similar
experience, saying, “1 remember when they
made the announcement at my school.
1 remember the teachers at my school
turned on the tv after the first plane
hit, then as we were watching the
what was going on, the second plane
hit. Our teacher said that it was too
graphic for us to watch anymore and
cut the tv off 1 didn’t hear anything
else about it until 1 got home that
afternoon.”
Senior David Alexander recalled
his experience saying, “1 was 13 years
old when it happened. We didn ‘t
watch it on tv that day, but some kid
ran into the classroom and yelled out
that a plane had flown into the World
Trade Center”
Alexander continues, saying, “1
was just sitting in geography class.
See '9/11,' page 8
Student Profile: Daniel Hunter Tuttle
By Caleb Welborn
Staff Writer
“Iraq took a lot of getting used to, with the
mortars, but after a while it becomes normal.
It’s hard to imagine that but (laughs) you hear
another round go off and it’s just another mortar
round.”
Daniel Hunter Tuttle is sitting, slouched back
in his chair, at a computer in the super lab,
tapping away at the keyboard. When thinking
about a question, he scratches his chin at the base
of the short, dark beard that encompasses his
face. Wearing the same flip-flops, beige baseball
cap and sunglasses that he normally does, he’s
the image of your everyday college student.
At 25 years old, Tuttle is older than most
college sophomores. Before attending Brevard
College, Tuttle worked overseas in Iraq,
Pakistan and Colombia as a U.S. Air Force
Firefighter, and in Kyrgyzstan and Curacao as
a Civilian Contract Firefighter Tuttle barely
arrived back in the states two months ago from
his last deployment in Curacao from June 2009
to June 2010.
As an Air Force firefighter, it was Tuttle’s
responsibility to protect government installations
in whatever country he was in at the time.
“There were lots of fires in Iraq, structural,
dumpster, electrical,” he said. “There was one
really big fire where a connex box (a large
metal box about the size of a dumpster) full of
ammunition caught fire and we had to fight it for
four or five hours. You could hear ammo going
off During the incident 1 was a tanker driver
1 shuttled in somewhere between eight and ten
thousand gallons of water from my truck alone,
and there were two other trucks shuttling water”
Iraq was the first country he was sent to, where
he was deployed for five months in 2005.
In 2006, Tuttle was sent to Pakistan. Although
he was deployed there for only one month,
he says that it was his favorite country that
he worked in because he had a great cultural
experience working with the local people and
Pakistani Air Force Firefighters. “We played
volleyball with them, 1 brought my baseball
gloves so we could play baseball, we played
cricket with them,” he said. “It was pretty cool;
they would bring their dishes out and share their
food. 1 really liked the chai tea.”
In 2007, Tuttle was deployed in Colombia for
three months, where he first became interested
See 'Tuttle' page 2