El Vaquero

Media Credit: El Vaquero archives/ASGCC ASGCC representative of campus activities Petros Anagnostidis posts the hand written names of the Sept. 11 victims. [Click to enlarge]

With tears in her eyes, guest speaker Deresa Teller from the Los Angeles Fire Department recounted the "shades of gray and black and white as the dust still settled" in New York on the days following Sept. 11, to a crowd gathered in Plaza Vaquero on Wednesday to honor those lost in the tragedies of Sept. 11, 2001. "Everything looked like a "one piece of clothing. Everything was incinerated."

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