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It was a late Sunday night in New York City for Jordan Carroll, a Brigham Young University journalism student who recounts her experience watching the celebrations at Ground Zero after the announcement that Osama bin Laden was dead.
Carroll blogged about her Sunday observations on her blog, giving a view of a big event from the vantage point of a young, curious Utah native:
Men climbed up the traffic light poles and anything that could give them a view of the patriotic scene. President Obama spoke of another uniting of the American people and this congregation after his announcement was just that: a uniting of New Yorkers supporting the truths and principles this nation was founded upon: justice and freedom, and remembering their friends and family who had fallen.
Most gratifying, at least from the perspective an old news codger, is Carroll's eagerness to tell the story:
I was surprised at the small number of interns who decided to go to out and see the news. We are journalists. To me, that means going where the news is. Being a part of historical moments and communicating what happened. We have such unique opportunities here, we must take advantage of them. Otherwise, why leave Utah and the BYU bubble?
If there are more journalism students like Carroll around, this profession is in good hands.