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20 years later, remembering September 11

Naval ROTC midshipmen Jake Kolmetz (of SUNY Brockport), Claire Aikens ’22, and Samantha Ellrich ’25 stand vigil in heavy rain. (°µÍø³Ô¹Ï photo / J. Adam Fenster)

Naval, Air Force, and Army ROTC units stood vigil at the Meridian on the University of Rochester’s Eastman Quad to mark the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Among the nearly 3,000 people who died during the attacks were : Jeremy Glick ’93; Jean Hoadley Peterson ’69N; Jeffrey Smith ’87, ’88S (MBA); Zhe (Zack) Zeng ’95, ’98S (MBA); Aram Iskenderian ’82; and Brendan Dolan ’86.

In 2019, Ellen Bakalian, the widow of Jeffrey Smith, wrote an essay for The Atlantic, which was reprinted with permission in the summer 2021 issue of Rochester Review.