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Lindsey students plant flags to remember victims of 9/11 By Duane Bonifer Cody Shepherd '27 was born more than three years after 2,977 people died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Shepherd joined nearly a dozen of his Lindsey Wilson University classmates on September 10 to make sure that no one on campus forgets that tragedy on September 11, 2025. The LWU students -- all of whom were born after 2001 -- spent about an hour Wednesday evening planting nearly 2,000 American flags around the center of the Lindsey Wilson A.P. White Campus in memory of those killed in the four terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaida on the morning of September 11, 2001. The project, which was started on the one-year anniversary of the attacks by the 2002-03 Lindsey Wilson student government leaders, has been renewed annually for nearly a quarter-century. "I grew up in a very patriotic family," said Shepherd, a business administration major from Nashville, Tennessee. "This is my country, and nobody should touch it. I'll put out flags all day for it." Shepherd, who planted U.S. flags at LWU for the first time, said he first learned about 9/11 while in the first grade in Mount Juliet, Tennessee. "Then, as I grew older, the conversation developed, and I learned more about the day," he said. Sabrina Ruiz '26 also learned about 9/11 through school when her teachers in Louisville, Kentucky, annually set aside part of the Sept. 11 school day to discuss the day and its consequences. "I started to think about it in school because a lot of my teachers would take the time to teach us about it and why it's important that we remember the day," said Ruiz, a theatre and arts administration double major who helped plant the flags for the second time. Ruiz said the annual memorial is important to maintain because "it shows respect to the memory of those who died that day, and reminds people on campus what happened." Shepherd said he hopes that Lindsey Wilson's annual display of U.S. flags will cause people to "think of unity and having an undivided country." Whitley Gibson '27, who also helped plant flags for the first time this year on Wednesday evening, said the memorial is a reminder that "in a time of crisis, we can come together." "I hope that people who see it remember those who died that day -- who woke up, got ready for work and thought they were going to have just a regular day," said Gibson, a communication and human services and counseling double major from Edmonton, Kentucky. This story was posted on 2025-09-11 09:58:22
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