Sept. 11 speech sparks dispute
Tuesday’s Sept. 11 memorial service took on a political edge when history and classics professor Donald Kagan accused Iraq war opponents of being unpatriotic.
Roughly 90 members of the Yale community gathered in the Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona lecture hall to commemorate the sixth anniversary of 9/11. The choice of Kagan, a vocal conservative, to keynote the memorial generated controversy in the run-up to the anniversary.
Attendance was down compared to last year’s memorial, which drew about 150 people. In addition to Kagan’s keynote speech, the event featured the Yale...
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