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Minium: ODU Lacrosse Team Celebrates the True Meaning of 9/11 With Norfolk Firefighters

By Harry Minium

When the 4-minute video ended, the 34 Old Dominion women's lacrosse players were somber. Some were crying. Others put their heads on their desks.

Coach Heather Holt asked if anyone had anything to say and no one spoke. The emotion was palpable.

For five of the last six years, the women's lacrosse team has hosted a dinner at Norfolk Fire Station No. 7, at 43rd Street and Hampton Boulevard, to commemorate the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which claimed the lives of 2,977 people, including 343 New York City firefighters, on September 11, 2001.