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We remember a day of tragedy

Devon Gille, Opinions Editor September 12, 2017

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...

More can be done to remember 9/11

September 18, 2014

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...

Ann Peru Knabe: Her life as an Air Force Reservist post 9/11

September 7, 2011
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.
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