This issue of the Skyline View hits the stand on a very important American anniversary. It’s been exactly seven years since the Twin Towers were attacked on September 11, 2001, taking the lives of over 2,500 Americans. We at The Skyline View realize the importance of honoring this anniversary, and we wanted to make sure that it was acknowledged in this issue. We knew it would be important to honor it, and we wanted to. The only problem was that we felt obligated to do it; we felt that any neglect to even reference the tragedy would be viewed as disrespectful or an insult to those who were either directly affected by the tragedy or harbor a strong emotional attachment to the remembrance of this day, which of course is understandable.

We are all Americans here; we all felt the sting of the attacks that morning seven years ago, and we recognize what a horrible tragedy it was. But here we are well on our way to a decade later, feeling strongly obligated to continue honoring it the same way it’s been honored for the past six anniversaries in a row, and we just feel that there’s nothing left to say. Perhaps in 2002 a full-page tribute with pictures, student opinions, first-hand accounts, etc. could be found in any nation-wide or even local newspaper, but it’s more than likely that you won’t find the same this year. Not by any means do we want to forget it; I think we as a nation would like to finally be able to move on.

For anyone who opened this paper expecting to find a full-page 9/11 spread, this is our best explanation for why you won’t find it. We don’t want anyone to think that we purposely avoided it, and we don’t want anyone to think that we are being disrespectful or apathetic about 9/11 in any way. We remember. We remember those we lost in the 9/11 tragedy. We remember our brave firefighters and police officers who risked their lives to save others. We will always remember the day that made our country even stronger, and our lack of a giant, in-depth tribute does not change that.