This year marks the 21st anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon and the crashing of United Airlines flight 93 in Pennsylvania. The U.S. Naval War College (NWC) will recognize the 11 NWC students and alumni who lost their lives that day with a 30-minute commemoration ceremony to be held at noon on Friday, September 9th at the college's 9/11 Memorial.
The members of NWC community that will be honored at the ceremony will be Capt. Gerald DeConto, a 1998 graduate of NWC; Lt. Cmdr. Robert Elseth, who went through NWC’s Fleet Seminar Program; Capt. Lawrence Getzfred, who graduated in 1990; Angela Houtz had just begun her Fleet Seminar Program course; Lt. Cmdr. Patrick Murphy, who studied at NWC’s Fleet Seminar Program; Lt. Jonas Panik, who was studying at the college’s Fleet Seminar; retired Capt. Jack Punches, a 1985 graduate; Cmdr. Robert Schlegel, also from the Fleet Seminar Program; Cmdr. Dan Shanower, a Fleet Seminar student; Army Lt. Col. Kip Taylor, a 1998 graduate; and retired Capt. John Yamnicky Sr., a 1967 graduate.
All hands are invited and encouraged to participate.
Our college community will be joined by approximately 200 Naval Academy Preparatory School students and potentially several survivor families. The uniform for the commemoration is summer whites (or service equivalent). Civilian attire is business casual.