Grand Valley students remember 9/11

A group of Grand Valley State University students organized a daylong memorial to remember victims of 9/11.

Students put 2,977 mini American flags — one for each person who died in the attacks — in the ground on the lawn on the east side of the Kirkhof Center and on the courtyard lawn at the DeVos Center.

From 8:40-9 a.m. at the Cook Carillon Tower, university carillonneur Julianne Vanden Wyngaard played songs, including “America the Beautiful.” At 8:46 a.m., the time of the first attack on the World Trade Center, she stopped playing for two minutes of silence.  

The memorial was organized by Grand Valley’s Student Senate and College Republicans student organization.