09/11/2022
For the 15th consecutive year, Pepperdine University will honor the lives lost in the terror attacks on September 11, 2001, with the Waves of Flags display at Alumni Park on the Malibu campus. From Friday, September 9, to Friday, September 23, 2022, nearly 3,000 flags will fly along Pacific Coast Highway and Malibu Canyon Road—one for each innocent victim, including a national flag for each foreign country that lost a citizen in the attack.
The Pepperdine community and the public are invited to visit the display and take a moment to reflect on the lives lost, the families affected, and the countless sacrifices made by emergency personnel and servicemen and women in the days that followed.
On Monday, September 12, 2022, Pepperdine will host Honoring the Heroes of 9/11, a commemoration ceremony led by University chancellor Sara Jackson (’74) with special remarks by president Jim Gash (JD ’93) and Pepperdine alumni Ryan Sawtelle (’09) and Chris Garcia (’11), who brought the Waves of Flags idea to life in 2008. The ceremony will be held at 11 AM at Alumni Park.