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2 Thursday, September 12, 2002 A Solemn Day for New York, UNC and the Nation Americans across the country spent Wednesday reflecting on the events of Sept. 11, 2001, and the year that has come to pass. Despite the distance, emotions on campus and in New York City were much the same - grief and despair mixed with hope for the future. Early Morning - Bagpipe proces sionals that will converge at the World Trade Center site start in the five bor oughs. 6 a.m. - Flags at Battery Park City are lowered to half staff. 7:15 a.m.-9 a.m. - Candle-lighting services commence in all five boroughs across the city. 8:46 a.m. - A citywide moment of silence is held, although it’s only as quiet as New York City can be. The subway still roars underground, and buses shut tle by. The murmur of visitors’ voices mixes with the wind stirring the air. The silence is followed by a reading of vic tims’ names at Ground Zero. 10 a.m. - Bush speaks from the Pentagon. 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Senior Mike Randall is one of many students to approach Polk Place for the convocation. He says he isn’t sure what message he is waiting to hear; he just feels a need to be there. “I can’t imagine being in New York that day,” he said. “It must have been ...” he says, trailing off in disbelief. “ ... crazy.” 12:04 p.m. - The smooth bugled tune of “The Star-Spangled Banner” comes like a desolate sigh from the steps of South Building. As the tune solemn ly goes on, an unusually cool breath of wind rustles the leaves of the tall oak trees, sending chills down the necks of the 6,000-some students gathered. 12:24 p.m. - Clutching one another’s hands, students bow their heads for a moment of silence. For the first time in two years the South Building bell rings - six times -one for each of the alum ni who died. “That’s when I lost it,” said junior Jennifer Duke, still wiping away tears. “It could have been any of u 5.... That’s scary.” Even when the crowd begins to let go, freshman Mathilde Sabourin and four friends don’t. They continue to hold one another- first hands then with arms wrapped around each other in a semi-cir cle -as if tomorrow they won’t be able to. “It really helps to have other people,” says Sabourin, a freshman. “I really pay more attention to my friends now. The little things, the fights, they don’t matter.” 12:43 p.m. - Moeser lays the first pebble. And more than 3,000 people are News to follow, forming a circle around the flagpole in the mid dle of Polk Place. They are just stones - ones you kick on your way to class, ones you’d find in a vacant gravel pit. But today they are nuggets of comfort to members of the University community who are lining up in hoards to pay their own tribute to the UNC alumni who died. 12:45 p.m. - With Polk Place still quiet, the Bell Tower rings loudly across campus, drawing students away from the commemoration and back to their daily lives. Class is about to start, home work is due, and exams are looming. It seems that life is going on as usual. 1:09 p.m. - Sophomore Delia Damey stands in line, waiting to place a stone in Arts Carolina’s commemora tive art project. She hears that students skipped their classes to participate in the convocation. “Good,” she says. “I hope a lot of people did.” 2:25 p.m. - N.Y. resident James Babbin, who, with two friends, decided to read all the biographies of the people who died (whose names are in The New York Times’ “Portraits 9/11/01”) finishes read ing the portrait of Laura Marchese-Giglio. Babbin ends each portrait by saying out loud, “And this is the portrait 0f...” (|i§- CtAt 1o A He f l6sflTgACCE.*Atwo - MKT INI StUMsMT tMOM(jA.W£RY DOMINION Dominion Ramsgate Has What You Need! e 200 Highway 54 Bypass Carrboro, North Carolina 27510 fr\r tAOO Don’t miss out! 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Hours earlier, police had considered towing the bus because it was illegally parked just a block away from the World Trade Center. 2:56 p.m. - Ground Zero visitors finish the 12th 4-by-16 sheet of paper full of sig natures and start working on the 13th. The papers started in Ft Lauderdale, Fla., and at first only went to firefighters and police officers. Now, thousands have signed. Eventually they all will go to the Cljp laily (Tar Urrl RO. Box 3257, Chapel Hill, NC 27515 Kim Minugh, Editor, 962-4086 Advertising & Business, 962-1163 News, Features, Sports, 962-0245 One copy per person; additional copies may be purchased at The Daily Tar Heel for $.25 each. © 2002 DTH Publishing Corp. 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She also made a point to stop by the noontime convocation. “I’ve just been reflecting.” 9:11 p.m. - Twenty students gather in the courtyard of Parker Residence Hall to light candles, listen to a poem about unity after the attacks and share their experiences and feelings. Junior Tiffany Hall says she can’t believe it’s been a whole year since she heard about the attacks and feared for her brother, who was in his Manhattan office at the time. He was unhurt, but the scare was enough to make her focus on what is important. Hall says that for her, today’s events are less about patri otism and more about family. 9:56 p.m. - As students silently drift away one by one from the candlelight vigil, one group remains assembled in the back comer of the Pit. “These were some powerful messages,” men’s basketball coach Matt Doherty tells a group of basketball players after the vigil. Doherty says the vigil gave the play ers a way to reflect and be part of the cam pus community. “There is a lot more going on in this world than basketball,” says Doherty, a New York native who lost two friends in the SepL 11 attacks. “Whatever we had going on - study hall, workouts, practice - it all came sec ond to this,” he says. “The players -and all students - needed an opportunity to reflect.”
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