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Funds to improve security drying up
INDELIBLE EFFECTS
By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com
TOPEKA — The terrorist attacks of 9/11 unleashed a torrent of money from the federal government to the states aimed at hardening security. In the year before the attack, Kansas received $844,000 in federal grants for security. The next year, the state received $4.2 million, then $27 million, and then a high of $28.8 million. S t a t e homeland security officials say Tafanelli the money in Kansas has gone into a number of areas that have increased the state’s ability to handle emergencies, whether it be a terrorist attack or what is common in Kansas: natural disasters. “We have taken the allhazards approach,” said Kansas Adjutant General Lee Tafanelli. “The improvements that we make in our response and capabilities are the same utilized in floods or tornadoes or some terroristic action that has occurred,” he said. “You have to do basic things, such as communicate, bring in
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TEN-YEAR-OLD AHMED JAKMOUJ is pictured with his parents, Lahsen and Melissa Jakmouj, on Friday in their Lawrence home. Although there have been no incidents, the two parents acknowledge hearing concerns about their son’s name after the Sept. 11 attacks.
10 YEARS AFTER 9/11 !"America remembers 9/11 10 years later.
Page 11A !"Attacks changed how terrorism is taught, researched. Page 10A !"A KU professor struck by the imagery of the damaged World Trade Center created a quilt. Page 10A !"An editor recalls his most memorable day in the newsroom. Page 10A !"President Obama urges unity, service. Page 12A !"Pastors organized vigil to protest exclusion of prayer service at Ground Zero today. Page 12A
Lessons from past decade still evolving By Mark Fagan mfagan@ljworld.com
9/11 has lasting impact on residents
The numbers tell one story of the 9/11 terror attacks, in comparison with other major losses in U.S. history: By Aaron Couch !" 2,400 died Dec. 7, 1941, when the Japacrimination in the baby’s future. has set her son back. In his class acouch@ljworld.com Having a Muslim name surely at Deerfield School, there are all nese attacked Pearl Harbor on a “date which will live in infamy.” would be a handicap in a world sorts of names. Ahmed Jakmouj was just 6 where terrorists claiming the !"3,600 died Sept. 17, 1862, in the Battle of “They’re just growing up in Antietam, the Civil War clash that remains weeks old on 9/11. faith murdered thousands. such a less-segregated world,” the bloodiest one-day battle in U.S. history. “Change his name,” a family But Ahmed’s parents didn’t said Ahmed’s mother, Melissa !" Nearly 3,000 people died Sept. 11, 2001, friend begged Ahmed’s parents. listen. They had named their son Jakmouj. “There is such an array as three hijacked airliners hit their targets — “Don’t make his life harder.” Ahmed Jerome, in honor of his of different colors in his classeach tower of World Trade Center in New The friend was also named grandfathers — one Muslim, the room that I don’t think he feels York, and the Pentagon in Arlington, Va. — Ahmed. He was a professor back other Catholic — and they were like he’s different, or that his and a fourth crashed in a field in western home in Morocco, where baby keeping the name. name separates him.” Pennsylvania. Ahmed’s father was from. He Ten years later, Ahmed’s Please see SECURITY, page 10A Please see IMPACT, page 2A The numbers tell only part of the story. knew the world, and he saw dis- mother doesn’t think the name “The people who died on 9/11 weren’t members of the armed forces,” says Jonathan Earle, an associate professor of history JAKE AND at Kansas University. “They were civilians. KATHERINE They were normal people. That places this ROBINSON were in a category all its own as a terrible, terrible growing up in day in American history.” different parts By Shaun Hittle were a major part of why said of his thinking at the He pauses to consider the context. sdhittle@ljworld.com they both enlisted in the time. of the country “We’ve had a lot of terrible days in our on Sept. 11, Army. Jake left Kansas Univerhistory,” he says, again pausing, “but people Jake and Katherine Rob2001, and both “I probably wouldn’t have sity, and Katherine left the never signed up for that.” inson were teenagers during (enlisted) before 9/11,” said University of Virginia’s Colenlisted in the the 9/11 attacks, a few years Katherine at the couple’s lege at Wise, and both ended military because Continued processing away from high school grad- apartment in west Lawrence. up at basic training at Fort of the attacks. As Americans pause today to remember uation. “But I thought, ‘I’m 18. I’m old Leonard Wood, Mo. They They met when that horrific day a decade ago, Earle and But the day would affect enough to do something.’” they were both never met there but joke that other historians, including teachers in the both of their futures — and stationed in Katherine’s rationale was they most likely battled each Lawrence school district, are looking back would lead to an unusual echoed by the man who’s other in training exercises. Arizona and on the events to determine how they came love story. now her husband of four married four Jake and Katherine, both about, what changes they have spurred, and Katherine, originally from years. years ago. Army intelligence, were where the resulting losses and adjustments Coeburn, Va., and Jake, from “I’m the right age, I should Please see COUPLE, page 2A Please see LESSONS, page 10A Kevin Anderson/Journal-World Photo Oberlin, said the attacks be doing something,” Jake
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