“We felt the ground shake and smelt the burning,” said Reverend Kay Dagg of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church.

Dagg attended seminary in Alexandria, Virginia, located two miles away from the Pentagon when it was hit on September 11th, 2001 as a part of the terrorist attacks that took place in the United States.  

September 11, 2001 marked one of the first times that millennials in the United States were impacted by violence against our nation at a large scale, according to the Huffington Post.

Not only did this impact millennials from the United States, but people from around the world.  

To help college students and Emporia remember the fallen, a service will take place at 11:00 a.m. at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church located at 828 Commercial, Emporia, Kansas. The interfaith service which will include scripture and poetry readings, hymns and candle lighting will last no longer than an hour. Coffee, tea, and cookies will be available after the service for a time of fellowship.  

Licensed adults will provide nursery, however, children are welcome to attend the service with their parents.

There will be ten categories of intersessions where the congregation will pray for different categories of people such as the victims, their families, first responders, counselors, volunteers, perpetrators and specifically for this year refugees.  

“We’re trying to take this from 9/11 2001 to 9/11 2016, so we’re wanting to include the last two years of United States violence,” said Dagg.  

Candles will be lit in honor of each category of people as a symbol of Jesus being the light of God and bringing back the light, according to Dagg.  

“It was a shock for us, especially because we were little when it happened, so growing up I knew I was always going to remember it,” said Bonnie Monahan, junior elementary education major.

Monahan remembers being at home, working on her schoolwork September 1, 2001.  Wondering whether it was an attack on all of America or an isolated incident, her dad came home from work early to check on Monahan and her mother.  

Jieun Ko, a Korean freshman chemistry major remembers Koreans reactions at an attack against the United States.

“People said it was really cruel and then the American government prevented a lot of other people from other countries from getting into the US,” Ko said. “That’s why I have to report where I am going to the government.”