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Naval, Air Force, and Army ROTC units stood vigil at the Meridian on the University of Rochester\u2019s Eastman Quad to mark the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Among the nearly 3,000 people who died during the attacks were six University of Rochester alumni<\/a>: Jeremy Glick \u201993; Jean Hoadley Peterson \u201969N; Jeffrey Smith \u201987, \u201988S (MBA); Zhe (Zack) Zeng \u201995, \u201998S (MBA); Aram Iskenderian \u201982; and Brendan Dolan \u201986.<\/p>\n

In 2019, Ellen Bakalian,\u00a0the widow of Jeffrey Smith, wrote \u201cEverything My Husband Wasn\u2019t There For,\u201d<\/a> an essay for The Atlantic<\/em>, which was reprinted with permission in the summer 2021 issue of Rochester Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Naval, Air Force, and Army ROTC units stood vigil at the Meridian on the University of Rochester\u2019s Eastman Quad to mark the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Among the nearly 3,000 people who died during the attacks were six University of Rochester alumni<\/a>: Jeremy Glick \u201993; Jean Hoadley Peterson \u201969N; Jeffrey Smith \u201987, \u201988S (MBA); Zhe (Zack) Zeng \u201995, \u201998S (MBA); Aram Iskenderian \u201982; and Brendan Dolan \u201986.<\/p>\n

In 2019, Ellen Bakalian,\u00a0the widow of Jeffrey Smith, wrote \u201cEverything My Husband Wasn\u2019t There For,\u201d<\/a> an essay for The Atlantic<\/em>, which was reprinted with permission in the summer 2021 issue of Rochester Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":490902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11556],"tags":[42,10876],"class_list":["post-490882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-photos","tag-alumni","tag-nrotc"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n20 years later, remembering September 11<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"ROTC units stood vigil on the University of Rochester\u2019s Eastman Quad to mark the 20th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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