On the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 attack in New York City and Washington, D.C., a Scripps Howard News Service story featured an interview with College of the Holy Cross Associate History Professor Edward O'Donnell. O’Donnell discussed the commonalities that the attacks of 9/11 and Pearl Harbor share as they were both surprise, national attacks, but he also emphasized the key differences between the two tragic events.
"Understanding Pearl Harbor can inform our understanding of 9/11 and provide a good point of comparison," O'Donnell said, "but they are not replications of the same thing."
At this point, it's impossible to say whether the 9/11 attacks will be remembered generations from now in the same way as Pearl Harbor, he said in his interview
This "Holy Cross in the News" item is by Sara Bovat '14.
