9/11 Commemoration and Interfaith Service

Dear Campus Community,

The tragic events of 9/11 are burned in our individual and collective memories, challenging long-standing assumptions about our security and vulnerabilities, our national values and identity, our individual priorities and responsibilities, and the character of our friends, our adversaries, and the changing international order (or disorder). These reflections should continue today and tomorrow, as the questions remain on the table and the answers have been sparse, contentious, and inadequate.

As an academic community, based on shared values and aspirations, we in the USD family have a particular obligation not only to sustain our memories of those who died and those who survived, but also to pursue our search for better policies, practices, norms, and institutions to discourage such acts of mass terror in the future, wherever they might occur and whomever might be the targets. So please join us both for this solemn commemoration and for this ongoing cross-campus dialogue.

We invite the university and San Diego communities to commemorate the tragic events of 9/11.

Tuesday, September 11, 8:46-10:28 a.m., 9/11 memorial

Transposed for pacific time, NROTC will render honors and play Taps. The memorial is located in front of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice at the Garden of the Sky.

8:46 a.m. – American Airlines crashes into the North Tower
9:03 a.m. – United Airlines Flight 175 crashes into the South Tower
9:37 a.m. – American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon
9:59 a.m. – The World Trade Center’s South Tower collapses after 56 minutes

10:00 a.m. - Join the USD community at an interfaith prayer (Christian, Jewish, Muslim) service to remember all those who lost their lives on September 11, 2001.

10:03 a.m. – United Airlines Flight 93 crashes in Somerset County, Pennsylvania
10:28 a.m. – The World Trade Center’s North Tower collapses after 102 minutes

Tuesday, September 11, 12:15 p.m., Daily Mass with special prayers, Founders Chapel

Wednesday September 12, 9 p.m., Mass for Peace, Founders Chapel

We also invite you to celebrate the International Day of Peace on Thursday, September 20, 12:15-2:15pm at the KIPJ Garden of the Sky.

Many thanks and all best wishes,
Edward C. Luck, PhD
Dean and Professor
Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies