Broadside: Issue 2, Sept. 11 Commemorative Issue

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Broadside

Sep. 10, 2012 Volume 89 Issue 2 BroadsideOnline.com

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9/11 Commemorative Issue Deployment Helps Strengthen Family Colonel Matthew Haber sat at the foot of his daughter’s bed, repeating the words, “I love you” as tears rolled down his cheeks. Anna Haber was just 11 years old when her father broke the news: He was being deployed to Stuttgart, Germany and would be away for four months. She lay in bed that night, watching her father cry for just the second time in her life, but she was still too young to really understand. “At that age, it doesn’t set in until the next day when your dad isn’t there,” said Anna, now a junior marketing major at Mason. “At that point, you can’t just call and tell him to come home.”

Col. Haber spent four months in Germany, leaving his wife to care for both Anna and her younger brother, Michael. Both children were becoming increasingly involved in sports and choir but Jane Haber, Anna’s mother, did what she had to do to keep everything as normal as possible. “It helps having good kids,” Mrs. Haber said. “You have no choice. You just do what you have to do. But the kids made it easy.” Still, though, his time in Germany would pale in comparison to what was coming. STORY CONTINUED PAGE 7

USAF Veteran Finds Healing in Mason’s Philsophy Program As American Airlines Flight 77 approached the Pentagon, it took out power lines and a generator before smashing into the western side of the building. Fifty-three passengers and six crew members were killed in the crash and a section of the Pentagon collapsed from impact. Senior Airman Rachel Moran, a computer systems operator for the Air Force at the Pentagon, just happened to not be at work that September morning. “It was a surreal time,” Moran said. “Things at work didn’t really change

until the war in 2003 but in other aspects of life everything changed immediately. Everyone was just in shock.” One week after the attacks, letters containing anthrax were mailed to several news media offices and politicians, killing five and infecting 17. Just one year later, John Allen Mohammed and Lee Boyd Malvo terrorized the Beltway with a spree of sniper shootings. STORY CONTINUED PAGE 7

No Easy Day Read the review of former U.S. Navy Seal Matt Bissonnette’s controversial autobiography, which details the final raid on Osama bin Laden PAGE 11

Arlington Cemetery In memory of 9/11, take a day trip to honor fallen heroes at one of the most symbolic parks in America PAGE 12

Sport for World Peace

Craig Esherick and Dr. Bob Baker have teamed up with the U.S. State Department to use sport as a diplomatic effort PAGE 17


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