9/11 memorial on Los Angeles college campus trashed and vandalized [View all]
Nearly 3,000 flags planted around Occidental College to remember the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks were trashed and crushed early Sunday, a group says.
Members of the Occidental College Republican Club discovered the destruction early Sunday on the Eagle Rock campus as well as fliers, they said, that “shamed the victims of 9/11.” The flier, which displayed the image of the two World Trade Center towers, included the message: “R.I.P. The 2,996 Americans who died in 9/11. R.I.P. the 1,455,590 innocent Iraqis who died during the U.S. invasion for something they didn’t do.”
“This is beyond politics, this is about those lives that were so tragically taken,” the club said in the statement on Facebook.
Students placed the 2,997 flags in the campus’ quad on Saturday night in preparation for the 15th anniversary of the terror attacks, according to the club, which sponsored the memorial.
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