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Good morning, Washington. Even if you don't plan to do anything with your day like attending a memorial event or volunteering, it's rather difficult to forget what day it is today -- every time you see the date Sept. 11 on a credit card slip or memo, you're going to be reminded. The Post has a big interactive feature up on the creation of the Pentagon Memorial, which is scheduled to open in one year and so will be the first Sept. 11 memorial in the country. Gothamist has a list of memorial events today.
Missing Student Recounts Ordeal: The WaPo has all the harrowing details of Julian McCormick's eight days spent trapped in his car at the bottom of a ravine in Prince George's County. The 18-year-old Bowie State University said he survived by eating a fish he caught with his hands and using his shoe to drink water from the creek. Thankfully, no one has come forward to reveal that they wore a fake bear suit to frighten him or put him in up in a hotel for a few nights, so we're betting even money that nearby Discovery Channel HQ is buzzing this morning to offer this kid a TV show.
Rhee Will Decide Fate of Senior Project: Chancellor Michelle Rhee will make the ultimate decision in a controversy between a group of parents of seniors at the unique School Without Walls high school on the GW campus, and the school's principal. The principal had ordered that a 1 credit course facilitating a "senior project" would be mandatory for all seniors at the school this year, but parents worried that their students would have trouble completing all their coursework to graduate took the issue to Rhee, the Examiner explains.
Briefly Noted: E-Z Pass glitch caused thousands of false tickets ... Vandalism suspected at Vietnam Memorial ... Freed Wilson scholar back to work ... Burglars targeting Logan Circle, again, this time in daylight ... 25-year-old man fatally shot yesterday in Southeast.
This Day in DCist: Last year we noted the arrival of Tom Cruise to town and three years ago we marked the Sept. 11 anniversary by sharing some links with you.
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Hey DCist,
Thanks for not posting word one about the missing college student story until after he was found under sensational circumstances. He was missing for a week, and though it was suggested that it be covered back when he was first reported missing on NBC4, it wasn't mentioned until now. Tsk!
The 1st Sept. 11 memorial in the country? There are probably thousands of Sept. 11 memorials. Many towns in NY/NJ/CT where residents lost their lives have erected or dedicated some form of memorial, and I'm sure many other towns across the country did the same.
It appears you meant the first permanent memorial located at one of the attack sites.
What kind of person can't get out of his car, but can grab a fish with his bare hands? I'll believe it when I see the bones Heathcliff.
yeah, i hate to be suspicious, but something is strange about this kids story. no broken bones or internal injuries and it takes hime 8 days to get out of his car and climb 30 feet?
Guest #3 - It not infrequently takes 4 - 6 fully conscious and burly firefighters supported with nontrivial hydraulic tools and rope gear to get somebody out of a car like this. It's a totally buyable story. (However, also, if he gave himself a decent enough head injury that he was not time-oriented except by a watch, things like catching the fish and drinking out of his shoe may not have happened except mentally.)
I feel kind of bad for driving past this guy every weekday twice a weekday.
Also, it's not that "God was with him" as per his mom so much as that he wore his seatbelt. Or that God was with him when he put on a seatbelt. That works, too.
i wish you could leave comments on the nbc 4 story page, but since you can't, i'm going to leave mine here.
what the hell do you mean, "this time in daylight"? i lived on rhode island between 11th and 12th, and a member of the dcist staff lived across the street from me, and we BOTH had out houses broken into in broad daylight. along with about 10 other houses in the immediate block that i knew of, and this was well over a year ago (july, '06). if the police have caught the bastard, great. i want the chance to kick him in the balls for taking a damn axe to my front door and stealing all of the computers in our house. my girlfriend and my old roommates would love to get the files back that were on those machines.
but this isn't something new, nbc 4. logan has had a burglary problem for a good long while now.
Bear Grylls is a fraud?! Say it ain't so.
I always suspected some level of chicanery, but to put him up in a motel? That's disapointing.
Well I'll always have Survivor Man...
Screw the NBC 4 page, we know those guys are morons. I'm more pissed that this is a briefly noted issue here on DCist. 11 break-ins in one day and it is a Brief topic? Call the MPD and you'll find that there have been a shit-ton more than that in the last month. My neighbor was broken into 2 times in one week. These people are breaking in to homes on our block every day. But the DCist loves to paint a pretty little picture about how safe DC is these days, and how all the people talking about crime increases are alarmists.
BostonRay says: It sure didn't take the liberal cowards of Answer long did it? Defacing the Vietnam Memorial, dedicated to brave men and women who died in the service of our country by insurgent scum is certain to magnify by enormous proportions the numbers in the Gathering of Eagles counter demonstration this Saturday (Sept. 15). We Veterans have had enough of these bums and sheehanista losers so it should be an interesting day to be sure. Defacing our sacred Monument, under cover of darkness, will not be without consequences.
@BostonRay: WTF are you talking about man? From that poorly written and researched Times article you got that Answer was responsible? A "light oily substance" could be anything from a cleaning solvent or buffing oil, to something those sorry excuses for street vendors sell.
9: And what if they come out and say it was some dumb maintenance guy? You'll have gotten your panties in a wad for nothing. If this was intentional vandalism, it was an awfully lame attempt.
BostonRay would have definitely been in the leading ranks of those who claimed the Vietnam Memorial was an unholy desecration of those vet's memories.
T minus 2 days until someone finds out it's spilled from a left-behind gift, or an attempt to polish the marble or the like.
Increasingly convinced, however, that BostonRay is a creation of a brilliant satirist. Whether that satirist is a DCist commenter or, you know, God.
Everytime I see the the date September 12, I'm reminded of the day after September 11th.