John Brown University's Student Newspaper
Friendships help shape and mold a person. We gain friendships in two senses: platonic and romantic. The problem with our culture and American media is the skewed understanding of friendship in romantic relationships. In America, there is little to no distinction between finding someone attractive and being romantically interested in […]
As the United States concluded its abrupt withdrawal from Afghanistan on Aug. 31, many have been left stranded to suffer under the Taliban’s regime. Christians are one of the most hated and oppressed religious minority groups within Afghanistan, especially with the added risk of the Taliban. Most Christians in Afghanistan […]
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Jill Gilbert recalls that life was normal. After starting the laundry, she began homeschooling each of her children. A few hours later, while she was folding laundry, the family maid walked in and told her to turn on the news. Instantly, fear started […]
Nearly twenty years after the events of Sept. 11, 2001, the memories witnessed from that Tuesday morning continue to affect many of the nation’s people as the levels of fear and uncertainty have increased in recent weeks. “[I was] working at North Fourth St. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I was a […]
Holleigh and Mark Belvardi were in different time zones, countries, and in two completely different situations when the first plane crashed into the North Tower on the once beautiful September day. Holleigh, a five-year-old from southeast Kansas, did her usual routine of riding the bus home at noon after being […]
On Sept. 11, 2001, the most tragic event this country has ever seen took the lives of 2,996 Americans, all of which were sons and daughters, and many of which were parents themselves. As parents, we never want to see the day where our child is removed suddenly and tragically […]
Twenty years later, Rich Pyres still remembers the beeping sound his pager made on his day off on Sept. 11, 2001. As a special agent for the FBI, pages were a routine part of his job. But, this page was different. “We used the code 911 for an emergency, and […]
On Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, producer Kristina Kendall was in New York working on a story for ABC that was due that Friday. The editing room in which she worked had multiple video screens, making it nearly impossible for Kendall to miss the footage of a plane colliding with the […]
A cool Tuesday morning in September, Dunamis Flux Ross was working concrete with a handful of others in south Minneapolis. Suddenly, a woman from across the street ran out of her house to the group of working men. She cried out to them, asking if they had heard the news: […]