President Barack Obama announced to the nation and to the world Sunday night that Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, is dead. Students at Ohio State abandoned their studies, sleep and law-abiding ways Sunday night to celebrate.
Obama announced at about 11:30 p.m. that the U.S. had located bin Laden and killed him in a CIA-conducted operation in Islamabad a week earlier.
“Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qada, and a terrorist who’s responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women and children,” Obama said in his address to the nation. […]
OSU students quickly began to celebrate.
John Bischoff, a third-year in hospitality management, said he was sacrificing study time to celebrate with his fellow Buckeyes.
“I mean, I’ve got a three-page paper due in about six hours, and I’m here. I mean, why not? America, f— yeah,” Bischoff said.
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