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9/11 attacks marked loss of innocence

byCNS
22 September 2013
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Norris Lenartowicz, centre, a kindergarten student at St Agnes School in Avon, New York stands with his classmates during a remembrance ceremony for the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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Norris Lenartowicz, centre, a kindergarten student at St Agnes School in Avon, New York stands with his classmates during a remembrance ceremony for the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Day to remember: Norris Lenartowicz, centre, a kindergarten student at St Agnes School in Avon, New York stands with his classmates during a remembrance ceremony for the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Photo: CNS

ALYSSA Badolato, a senior at The Catholic University of America in Washington, described the morning of September 11, 2001, as her loss of innocence.

Badolato said she was 10 when the attacks of 9/11 took place.

“You didn’t think these things could happen in our country,” she said.

“Now there’s this fear. We’re still feeling those effects.”

Badolato, former chairwoman of the College Republicans at Catholic University, is from Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

She and other members of the university’s chapter of College Republicans helped hand out flags to students on campus on the 12th anniversary of 9/11 in remembrance of the lives lost in the terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of nearly 3000 people in New York City, near Shanksville, Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon.

Nicole Kolenberg, a sophomore from Stamford, Connecticut said although she was in second grade in 2001, she remembered the news of the attacks vividly.

“It’s the first thing I remember so vividly,” Kolenberg said.

“My parents came to pick me up from school. We went out in our boat and we could see the Long Island Sound in smoke. It was unreal.”

Kolenberg said flags were laid on the lawn of the Edward Pryzbyla University Center in loving memory of all the lives lost.

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“We’re trying to fill the lawn up,” she said.

Kolenberg said the events of September 11 were difficult for those in her community.

“It’s hard because we were so close to the city (New York City),” she said. “We lost a lot of people who were close to us.”

Tom Lahey, a sophomore from New Jersey, said he was also in second grade in 2001.

Lahey said his father was stuck in the subway under the North Tower when that tower of the World Trade Centre fell.

“He didn’t get home until 8 p.m. that night,” Lahey said.

“He was covered in soot. A couple of my friends’ parents died.”

Students wrote the names of loved ones and prayers on cards where they laid their flags.

Jax Descloux, a sophomore from Westchester County in New York, said her father also experienced a close call during the attacks.

Descloux said her father used to work at the World Trade Centre.

“He was supposed to go to the city (on September 11), but he overslept,” she said.

Freshman Dulan Jayawardane said his teachers tried to hide the details of the attacks from students at school.

“Our teachers tried to play it off as an early dismissal,” he said. “We overheard them talking.”

Jayawardane, who is from Bethesda, was 5 in 2001.

He said he felt frightened after he was picked up from school.

“I heard a plane overhead and got scared on my way home,” Jayawardane said.

Freshman Courtney Wosepka said she lived in Michigan on September  11, 2001.

Wosepka said although she was too young to remember the day’s events, she remembers sitting down with her parents a few years later with a postcard of the World Trade Centre.

Wosepka said both her parents had been to the World Trade Centre before.

She said although she was still young, they wanted to help her understand the significance of the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon.

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