Pepperdine Honors the Victims of 9/11
The names of the 2,977 people who died 10 years ago in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are read out loud at Pepperdine University's Alumni Park.
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Malibu Mayor Pro Tem Laura Zahn Rosenthal reads the names of people who died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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Local residents and community leaders honored the memory of the nearly 3,000 people who died 10 years ago in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks by reading their names out loud on Sunday at Pepperdine University's Alumni Park. The reading lasted nearly four hours.
Scores of people came to the park to hear the reading and to see the Wave of Flags, a powerful display on Pepperdine's front lawn that features 2,977 flags, representing all the people who died in the 9/11 tragedy.
Katherine Row
10:11 am on Monday, September 12, 2011
I am so grateful for the Pepperdine flags adn especially the illumination added this year. Ten years ago, exactly two months after his twelfth birthday, my eldest son witnessed the televised horror of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and the recorded heroics of the passengers on Flight 93 -- a flight we had often taken -- before it went down in Shanksville, PA. At that moment he made the decision to join the US Marines and fight the terrorists who had taken the lives of his countrymen. His determination never swayed. Two months ago he returned from his final deployment to Afghanistan, the day Osama bin Laden was killed. Yesterday, exactly two months after his 22nd birthday and at the approximate pre-sunrise hour the second hijacked plane hit the South Tower, he drove past Pepperdine's illuminated flags, his duty to his country fulfilled, his journey home complete. Thank you Pepperdine for welcoming one young man home and assuring him that the victims of September 11 he sought to defend in death are not forgotten.