Eighteen Years Since 9/11

It’s Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019. Today is the 18th anniversary of the terrorist attacks against the United States that killed 2,996 people and injured over 6,000 others. On campus at UW-Milwaukee all the students going about their day have their own story to tell about what the today means to them.

The conversations among students who know the attacks of 9/11 as history tend to be about the troops who are still occupying Afghanistan.

Amira Rupnick says “We aren’t progressing with the mentality we currently have.” Rupnick is a senior at UWM. She is an Advertising major with a minor in Portuguese. “My mother is Palestinian, so it is something that I think about a lot.”

Rupnick believes that it is wrong to subject civilians and American soldiers to more war overseas. Rupnick instead hopes that our leaders direct our focuses to more current threats against the U.S. and the world.