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In remembrance of 9\/11, the Clarion spoke with various students, faculty and\u00a0staff members at Sinclair Community College about their memories regarding 9\/11. Some watched as tragedy struck on TV, while others were in closer proximity to the disaster. Regardless, it is a memory that they have not forgotten.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI rode my [Harley] to this little place, and this Indian family owned this place. It was like a little carryout and I stopped in to get a drink and people were yelling at them and stuff and calling them stuff, because they were all freaked out because of the terrorists. And for some reason, they thought these guys looked like terrorists. So I parked my bike out there and I sat there in my own humble way, [and] defended them all day.\u201d \u2014 Denny Wilson, advisor of the National Society of Leadership and Success<\/p>\n

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\u201cI wasn\u2019t here, but I remember seeing news in India about it. And as a Muslim, it was sad for us to hear all the rumors about what happened and all Muslims were blamed on it. After all, we hate whoever did it, because they ruined the reputation of Islam. And I can say how sad it is because even though things are better now, they still have the criteria that Muslims are terrorists; which is very sad, because there are many people right now in Afghanistan and Syria and Egypt who are dying for no reason, just because this happened.\u201d \u2014 Nilofar Gagan, student ambassador in the Student Leadership Development office<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was actually in Buffalo N.Y., that was on the other side of the state, at a conference and it was just a very sad day. I can remember being panicked, because I was flying home that morning and all the flights were canceled. It was just a sad day. I just remember feeling very vulnerable and for the first time ever in my life, I was not sure of anything. I didn\u2019t feel secure about anything, how I was going to get home, how my family members were doing, what was going to happen. It was a very, very scary feeling and I had never felt like that ever.\u201d \u2014 Judy Kronenberger, professor and program director of Medical Assistant Technology<\/p>\n

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\u201cI remember walking into the family room with a piece of toast, because it was that early in the morning and thinking, \u2018this can\u2019t be happening\u2019 and trying to figure out what I can do to help. A lot of people were giving blood and stuff, and I was like \u2018what can I do to help?\u2019 And I went up to the schools to help handle the phone calls, because I knew that\u2019s what they were going to be fielding. And unfortunately, there were a lot of students attending classes who had parents in the military, because of Wright Patt and they were concerned not knowing what would happen\u2026 Gives me chills just thinking about it.\u201d Patti Celek, marketing specialist in the Theatre and Dance departments<\/p>\n

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\u201cI had a cold that day. I was working at [University of Dayton] and I was waiting for my wife to get ready to go to work, watching TV. And when I saw it, they showed the rerun of the first plane and when the second plane hit, that was live. I was convinced that it was not an accident, that it was deliberate and just watching it\u2026 It was scary at that time, because we didn\u2019t know in the initial time what was happening.\u201d Glen Lobo, associate professor in Mathematics.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt was the week before classes and we were registering. We were crazy busy and when it was all happening, we went into a classroom that had a TV. And they couldn\u2019t pry themselves away from that TV. And the other thing is\u2026 they were concerned about the federal buildings and the federal buildings were just right across the street (from Sinclair). People were really anxious about being so close to the federal building, but we were stunned. Couldn\u2019t do anything, couldn\u2019t pry ourselves away from it.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0\u00a0 Peter Bolmida, student success coordinator<\/p>\n

\u201cI was sitting in my office at my former college, when my secretary came in and knocked on my door and said, \u2018someone just hit the World Trade Center with an airplane.\u2019 And I thought, \u2018must\u2019ve been an accident, pilot error, or small plane or something.\u2019 I just didn\u2019t realize the gravity of the situation, then once things started unfolding, I remember everyone in my building crowded around this small television set just watching it. And the sense of it being surreal, like we just couldn\u2019t believe it.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0\u00a0 Kathleen Cleary, associate provost of Completion by Design<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI was in seventh grade; I was in middle school in New Jersey. They locked us down in our classrooms. They wouldn\u2019t tell us what was going on \u2014 they just told us that we couldn\u2019t call our parents, so we were locked down in our classroom for the majority of our morning. After a while, we could start seeing the smoke because we\u2019re not that far from the city, so you could see the smoke come our way. They finally let us out at the end of the day and we went home and it was all over the news.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

Dominique Starr, graduate assistant in the Student Leadership Development office<\/p>\n

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\u201c[I was] still doing full-time clinical work over at Grandview at the time, so I had taken my son to the preschool. On the way there (to work), the preschool called me because he cried so much that he made himself vomit and I had to go back and pick him up. So he was actually at work with me that day when 9\/11 happened. I can remember people were all alerted after the first plane, and so then all of the TVs\u2019 across the hospital went on and people were gathered around. We were all watching as the second plane went into the building and so I remember [my son\u2019s] response, which was very innocently \u2018where did the plane go?\u2019 I remember that very clearly. It\u2019s one of the things in psychology we call a flashbulb memory, which is [when] sometimes something so dramatic, so life-changing occurs, it\u2019s almost like burned into your memory, like a flashbulb.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0\u00a0 Mary Wells, assistant professor in Psychology<\/p>\n

\u201cWatching the Pentagon burn. I went to college in D.C., so I was ROTC training that day and later that evening, I went over there and the building was on fire. When you\u2019re 21 and you\u2019re looking at the world one way, you\u2019re not smart enough to appreciate what all of it means in that moment. I understand now that my whole world changed. I was being commissioned, I was going to be an officer for the Air Force and the world changed. And that day and the months to follow, everything about my life trajectory had just shifted and you\u2019re not aware enough and thinking globally enough at that point to appreciate that change. I can\u2019t say that that\u2019s what I was thinking, because certainly I wasn\u2019t. But it was scary, I mean you\u2019re driving along D.C. and there\u2019s tanks along the street and National Guardsmen with rifles on every corner of Georgetown \u2014 that\u2019s a whole different way of living. Crazy day.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

\u2014Sally Caspers, coordinator of Veteran Services<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s sort of complex for me. Because for me, 9\/11 had been a scene of tragedy for much longer than 2001. When I was in Chile, there\u2019s a horrible dictatorship that took over\u2026 and it was Sept. 11, 1973. There\u2019s no relation\u2026 And I remember thinking when I got up that morning, \u2018oh my goodness\u2019\u2026 So to me, people always forget that other things happened on 9\/11. It\u2019s a tragic event and people passed away because of it. Other people died on that day in 1973.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

\u2014Derek Petrey, director of the Honors Program<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt was very scary, because there was no communication to my family. At one point, everything shut off and I couldn\u2019t get to my mother (who was in N.Y.)\u2026 The last thing my mother said was \u2018don\u2019t come here to get us if we die,\u2019 because she didn\u2019t know what was going on. See, in New York, you\u2019re locked [in]. Everything was blocked off\u2026 bridges are closed, everything is on an island and it\u2019s all shut down, all transportation. That was pretty scary\u2026 You just never think the same way again.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

\u2014Merri Shearer, administrative coordinator in the Student Leadership Development office<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was taking care of my father who had a stroke, turned the TV on and I honestly thought it was a movie, until I realized it was real. And seeing the second airplane crash into the second tower, and it was just unbelievable. I mean, that\u2019s the only thing I can remember. I was fixing my father breakfast and I thought he was watching a movie until the second plane went into the tower. And the rest, there\u2019s just no words. I couldn\u2019t believe it. After I fixed breakfast, I came here (Sinclair) to work and Sinclair dismissed us early because it was just like, it affected the whole world. Something just took over everything. I just have no words, I couldn\u2019t believe it.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

\u2014Margaret Baily, clerk typist in Career Services<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was scheduled to go to a church meeting that evening and we had a set agenda. Between the morning event and the evening meeting, we changed it completely so people could be home with their families. So we would offer an opportunity for people to be in reflection and silence and to pray for everyone involved of all religious traditions and to support one another, in what was an immediate sense of dis-aster, d-i-s \u2014 aster. [It] means when the world falls apart, when the stars fall apart. Disaster. It\u2019s a word that really captures it for me, what really happened\u2026 That\u2019s my strongest memory, that feeling of disaster and needing to be with people who could support one another, needing to pray for everyone who was involved and to make sure we did not continue with just business as usual, because something significant had happened.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i> Barbara Battin, interfaith campus minister in Campus Ministry<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was in the Army at the time, I was sleeping on the couch and my mom called me and told me to turn on the TV. As I was watching the news the second plane hit \u2014 that\u2019s when I knew it was an attack and not a fluke. All my neighbors were freaking out, everyone was confused and scared.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0\u00a0 Nicholas Anderson, Communication major<\/p>\n

\u201cRemembering if it was real or not, it\u2019s so surreal when I think back on it.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0\u00a0 Patrick Freeman, Nursing major<\/p>\n

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