Remembering the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001 is never a memory that we enjoy reliving. Looking back on what happened that sunny morning, we continue to ask ourselves what we...

Sept. 17 2014 Royal Purple Editorial Staff Opinion It’s been 13 years since the 9/11 terrorist attack on the United States. Thirteen years spent remembering that devastating day and honoring the...

UW-Whitewater Public Relations and Communications instructor Ann Peru Knabe was driving to Whitewater to teach a public relations class when she heard that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. Soon after that, Knabe heard of a second plane crashing, and that the cause of the accident was a terrorist act. As a civilian, Knabe had many of the same unanswered questions that millions of Americans had. As a mother, she was left with the task of explaining a devastatingly-unexpected situation to her five-year-old daughter. Yet Knabe’s life as a civilian and as a mother were not as life-changing as the third role Knabe held. September 11, 2001, turned Air Force Reservist Ann Knabe’s world upside-down.