WHEELING – It has been a quarter-century and the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on America are truly history. The events are being discussed in history classes, even though there are now history teachers in school who weren’t born before Sept. 11, or were too young to be cognizant of the ...
The eight years Jeremy Harrison served in the Army Reserves and on active duty in the Middle East were split by the events of Sept. 11, 2001. A resident of Glen Dale, Harrison enlisted in 1997, not too long after he had graduated from Wheeling Park High School, and was honorably discharged in ...
WHEELING — The Wheeling Military Banner Program held its final ceremonies of the year Thursday honoring two city natives who were killed in action during World War II. The two new banners are among a total of 437 military banners that are on display throughout the city as part of the ...
There is a duality to Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year that begins Friday, said Rabbi Joshua Lief of Wheeling's Temple Shalom. "Rosh Hashanah itself is about holding two contrary ideas in our mind at the same time," he said. "We look both backward and ahead. We celebrate and repent. We ...
The first remembrance ceremony for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that Rabbi Joshua Lief of Wheeling's Temple Shalom was part of came one year after those attacks in 2002. He was still in the seminary as a student rabbi, with a small congregation in Lafayette, Louisiana, as his student ...
Twenty-five years ago today, what many consider to be the worst domestic terror attack in U.S. history took place as a series of four coordinated strikes by al-Qaida, using commercial airliners, resulted in the destruction of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, damage to the ...
