Pages past — Sept. 11

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2001: Nearly 3,000 people were killed in terrorist attacks at New York’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and on a plane that crashed in Pennsylvania.

Former Eastern New Mexico University basketball player Ron Milam was among the victims. Maj. Milam was in the Pentagon, serving in the office of the assistant secretary of the Army.

Ron Milam

Milam, who graduated from ENMU in 1991, joined the military after college.

“He loved the university. Loved his experience there,” former Greyhounds coach Earl Diddle said in a 2011 interview. “He was a great Greyhound, a great person. I miss him dearly, and I miss him every day.”

Said Steve Milam, Ron’s younger brother, also in 2011: “Ron, like all of the other people who lost their lives, was a very special person. I don’t know how to put it, but it is good to know we keep their memories alive. It helps a great deal.”

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