Extra Points Archive: Post-Tragedy Triumph

Posted Oct 21, 2009
Thirty-three hours earlier, two planes on suicide bombing missions had careened into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, killing thousands, stopping the world in its tracks and slinging the United States into war. College football games for the coming weekend had all been postponed, and as John Bunting gathered his Tar Heel football players around him after practice that Wednesday afternoon. (Tar Heel Blue)

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