“Unsung heroes” worked inside the burning Pentagon building to maintain critical communications after the 9-11 terrorists’ attacks Sept. 11, 2001, said USAF Ret. Col. Thomas Hickerson. “This is the story of the front line of the first battle of the war on terrorism,” Hickerson said during the keynote address Wednesday at the Rutherford County Sheriff’s…
Calling it a marathon that’s grown into an ultramarathon, Greg Mays shared how the United States remains in a war to defeat terrorism. Mays, director of Homeland Security at the Tennessee Department of Safety, helped Middle Tennessee State University commemorate the 21st anniversary of the four coordinated terrorist attacks on U.S. soil by the extremist…
Sept. 11, 2011 was a dark day in history like Pearl Harbor when more than 3,000 Americans died in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., said Tennessee Army National Guard Col. Mark Tyndall. “All Americans felt a spectrum of emotions that day; shock turned to fear, fear turned to anger, anger turned to resolve, and…
The City Schools Foundation will kick off the 2022-23 school year by joining forces with The Murfreesboro 9/11 Heroes Run on September 10, 2022. Together the Murfreesboro 9/11 Heroes Run and Back to School Dash will raise funds and awareness for our unsung heroes and create a run experience like no other in the area….
Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was White House counsel in the George W. Bush Administration when the events of Sept. 11, 2001, began unfolding. An attorney and judge, Gonzales delivered a speech to government lawyers in Norfolk, Virginia, that morning. He already knew a plane carrying 93 people crashed into the World Trade Center…
Commissioner Jeff Long of the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security will be the keynote speaker for the Rutherford County Sheriff’s 20th annual 9-11 Remembrance Ceremony Sept. 10. People are invited to attend the event at 9 a.m. at the 9-11 Memorial at the sheriff’s office at 940 New Salem Highway, said Sheriff Mike…
The Travis Manion Foundation will host the Murfreesboro 9/11 Heroes Run 5K race and 1M Fun Run/Walk on September 11 at 8 a.m. at Civic Plaza,111 W. Vine Street, in Murfreesboro. The annual race will unite the community to remember the nearly 3,000 lives lost on 9/11, as well as to honor our military and…
Former U.S. Navy Seal Royce Taylor will be the keynote speaker for the 18th annual 9-11 Remembrance Ceremony at 9 a.m., Friday at the Sheriff’s Office’s 9-11 Memorial. The ceremony remembers the victims of the terrorists’ attacks Sept. 11, 2001 at the Twin Towers in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and the…
It brought many people to tears, the nearly 40-minute 9/11 Remembrance ceremony held early Tuesday (Sept. 11) morning at the Veterans Memorial outside the Tom H. Jackson Building. From cadets and the new Department of Military Science chair Carrick McCarty to Gold Star Moms Tammy Bass and Jan Edens to Keith M. Huber, senior adviser…