Students attended a memorial chapel on Friday to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Before the Chapel, students placed 2,996 flags in the campus mall to honor the nearly 3,000 people who lost their lives that day. Austin Petree, junior political science major from Abilene, led a memorial discussion in front of the flags.
- (Photo by Sydney Varner) Junior Austin Petree ends the Chapel by thanking students for coming.
- (Photo by Sydney Varner) A poem, devotional and moment of silence make up Friday’s memorial Chapel.
- (Photo by Sydney Varner) Students listen solemnly as they attend a political science department sponsored 9/11 Chapel.
- (Photo by Sydney Varner) Junioir political science major from Abilene Austin Petree tells the students about the victims of 9/11 and where they were that day.
- (Photo by Sydney Varner) Dr. Neal Coates joins students for the memorial Chapel.
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- (Photo by Sydney Varner) Students bow their heads for a time of prayer and moment of silence.
- (Photo by Sydney Varner) Students gather to honor lives lost on 9/11.
- (Photo by Sydney Varner) Students gather around the flags to listen to a devotional and poem.
- (Photo by Sydney Varner) Austin Petree, junior political science major from Abilene and member of ACU Republicans, leads the memorial Chapel.
- (Photo by Sydney Varner) Students from ACU Republicans set out 2,996 American flags to honor the lives lost on 9/11.
- (Photo by Sydney Varner) Student catch up between Chapel and class in the campus mall.
- (Photo by Sydney Varner) Students talk between classes near the GATA fountain on campus.