Posted on 09/10/2012 6:15:45 PM PDT by oliverdarcy
The official student newspaper at George Mason University had planned to honor the 9/11 hijackers along with victims as part of a candlelight vigil on Tuesday, but later reversed the decision saying they had accidently counted the perpetrators among the victims.
A post appearing in the local newspaper and on the student paper’s official Facebook page indicated early on Monday organizers planned to light 2,996 candles during memorial service sponsored by the student paper The Broadside, for Tuesday evening. That figure represents the 2,977 innocent civilians who perished in the 2001 attacks along with the 19 hijackers.
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreform.org ...
Give them some credit, Columbia or Harvard would only have 19 candles.
Pray for America
Our future seems very dark.
My own experience in academia suggests you're read is most likely. The student body Left who love candlelight vigils would make no distinction between the hijacker and their murder victims.
Those accepting the 'simple error' explanation should ask themselves, would it be any different for a vigil outside a planned execution?
LOL - so true.
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