Memories in Photos A collection of W&L images from the two decades since the 9/11 attacks.
By Lindsey Nair
August 27, 2021
Students mourn the overwhelming losses of 9/11 at a candlelight vigil on the chapel steps on Sept. 12, 2001.
Students gather for a candlelight vigil the day after the attacks.
On Sept. 12, 2001, students attempted to absorb what had happened the day before.
Thousands of tiny flags line the sidewalk between University Chapel and the Colonnade in a 9/11 anniversary tradition carried on each year by student groups.
Flags adorn the Front Lawn on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Washington and Lee College Democrats and College Republicans line the path between Washington Hall and University Chapel with flags on Sept. 11 each year.
This memorial plaque for the W&L alumni who died in the 9/11 attacks is located in the University Chapel parking lot.
Burr Datz, then director of Leadership Development and coordinator of religious campus activities, offers a reading during a ceremony to mark the eighth anniversary of 9/11 and remember W&L’s fallen alumni, Robert Schlegel ’85 and James Gadiel ’00.
Clark Simcoe, then a W&L junior, plays “Taps” during the 9/11 memorial ceremony in 2009.
Students plant flags on the Front Lawn to mark the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
As the anniversary of the terrorist attacks approaches each year, reminders pop up across campus to never forget.
Students put out flags along Stemmons Plaza on Sept. 10, 2021 in memory of the 2,997 people who died on 9/11.
Students put out flags along Stemmons Plaza for the 20th anniversary of 9/11.
W&L ceremony to mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11
W&L ceremony to mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11
W&L ceremony to mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11
W&L ceremony to mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11
W&L ceremony to mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11
W&L ceremony to mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11
W&L ceremony to mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11
W&L ceremony to mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11
W&L ceremony to mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11
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