With Sept. 11 approaching, West Virginia University is planning to commemorate the third anniversary with a simple, yet heartfelt week-long remembrance.

Beginning Tuesday, Sept. 7, students will hang a large banner, which lists the names of each of the approximately 3,000 victims, in front of the downtown library.

Student Government Association President Jordan Workman invites members of the University and Morgantown communities to leave flowers, flags, messages and other appropriate items at the temporary Memorial Wall throughout the week leading up to Sept. 11.

The SGA will also hang lights on a West Virginia evergreen near the library, he added, in memory of the victims and the heroes of that day.

Although the Sept. 11 tragedy occurred three years ago, the memories have never faded for any student,Workman said.WVU came together and so did the nation. We should never forget 9-11 or its victims.

WVU lost two alumni in the terror attacksChris Gray, a 1992 and 1994 graduate who was working as a broker for Cantor Fitzgerald; and Jim Samuel Jr., a 1993 graduate who was working as a commodities broker for Carr Futures. Both worked at the World Trade Center Towers. Scholarship funds were set up in their memory through the WVU Foundation.