Sept. 15, 2011
![Students wait 9/11 ceremony on central campus](/2011/0915/img/911A.jpg)
Students watch a 9/11 video while awaiting the commemorative ceremony on central campus. Photo by Diana Pounds.
![Students walking on ISU campus](/2011/0915/img/911B.jpg)
In preparation for the ceremony, student organizers put nearly 3,000 small flags around central campus pathways. Photo by Diana Pounds.
9/11 remembrance
Students and others in the community gathered around the campanile last Sunday to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the United States. Nearly 3,000 people died when hijackers crashed two planes into New York City's World Trade Center, a third into the Pentagon and a fourth in a rural Pennsylvania field.
After remarks by several state and local officials and shared remembrances of 9/11 from students, the community processed around the central campus green. Thousands of small flags in the ground honored those who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001.
ISUTV: Candlelight procession