TCU remembers 09/11 with somber reverence

With a full moon hanging over head, the campus gathers for readings, reflections and prayers a decade after terrorism attacks (Photo by Glen E. Ellman)

Fort Worth, Texas

9/12/2011

By Rick Waters, TCU Magazine

For all current TCU undergraduates, most of their lives have been in a post-09/11 world. The recently admitted Class of 2015 were third-graders on Sept. 11, 2001.

The campus 09/11 Candlelight Service of Remembrance and Hope was, for a brief time, short on candles. Still, a crowd of about 300 eventually settled in on the Brown-Lupton University Union amphitheater, finding every chair, step, ledge and patch of grass to sit. Many came to listen and pay their respects. Others were there to pray and mourn.

The Rev. Angela Kaufman '95, minister to the university, considered it a good sign.

It's a blessing when there's not enough to go around and people share," she said. "There's a unity that develops."

With a full moon hanging over head, everyone would eventually have a chance to hold and pass along a flame on the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001. But much of the 45-minute ceremony was conducted in semi-darkness, illuminated just enough for a silent presentation of the colors by TCU ROTC, an a capella version of the national anthem, a melodic rendition of "There's A Liftin' of the Hands" by the Word of Truth Gospel Choir and readings from the New Testament, Old Testament and Koran.

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