9/11
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The events of 9/11 still echo 25 years later
Powerful personal testimonies from Clark alumni who remain connected to the events of 9/11, in life and in memory.
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Candles in September
My mother’s birthday is Sept. 11 and I was across the street at the pharmacy buying her a belated birthday card when I heard that American Airlines Flight 11 had crashed into the World Trade Center. I returned to my dorm, Sanford Hall, and went down to one of the common suites on my floor…
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Dan Trant ‘never backed down’
Wally Halas wasn’t just Dan Trant’s basketball coach. He was also a fan. “I loved the way he played the game,” Halas says. “He was bold, he was skilled, and he challenged everybody. If Dan could have played 10 hours a day, he would have.” Halas was far from alone in his assessment. In…
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‘It felt like a giant shaking a tin can’
Neil Lucente ’97 works on the sixth floor of a 10-story building, and it’s unlikely he’ll choose to travel any more vertically than that for a job. His sole reminder of his time in a high-rise is the bathroom key from the 81st floor of the World Trade Center’s North Tower that he keeps on…
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My father. My hero.
On a perfect late-summer morning, New York firefighter Salvatore Torcivia declined an overtime shift so that he could accompany his 3-year-old daughter, Mariah, to her first day of preschool at a YMCA near their Staten Island home. Not long after they arrived, a thick plume of dark smoke rose over the city. It was September…
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A New Yorker never forgets
This essay appeared in the Oct. 2019 issue of the Clark English Department newsletter, The Next Chapter. This is the first day in 18 years that I didn’t spend 9/11 in New York City. It was the first time nothing took place at my school. The first time people didn’t even bring it up.…
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Candles in September
My mother’s birthday is Sept. 11, and I was across the street at the pharmacy buying her a belated birthday card when I heard that American Airlines Flight 11 had crashed into the World Trade Center. I returned to my dorm, Sanford Hall, and went down to one of the common suites on my…
