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Waves of Flags - Pepperdine University

9/11 Remembrance Ceremony September 11, 2025 | 9 AM | Alumni Park. The flags will be erected beginning at 10am 9/6 and the flags will be lowered beginning 10am 9/26/25

9/11 Remembrance Ceremony

Keynote Speaker | Actor, Dennis Quaid

Thursday, September 11, 2025 | 9 AM | Alumni Park

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Join fellow faculty and staff, alumni, students, parents, and community members in the beloved Pepperdine tradition of raising and lowering the annual Waves of Flags display.

Flag Raising 2025

Saturday, September 6, 2025 | 10 AM–2 PM   Sign Up

Flag Lowering 2025

Friday, September 26, 2025 | 10 AM–2 PM   Sign Up

Each September, Pepperdine stages the Waves of Flags display honoring the lives lost in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, with nearly 3,000 flags in Alumni Park 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.

Started by students in 2008, Waves of Flags has become a Pepperdine tradition, one that attracts attention and admiration from across the country. It has come to transcend the commemoration of a single tragic day. The display educates both students and people far beyond our campus about the history of our country and the overwhelming sacrifices that heroic men and women have made to keep it safe, prosperous, and free.

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Located at one of the highest points on the Malibu campus, the Thomas E. Burnett, Jr., Heroes Garden stands as an outdoor chapel, a place of honor, reflection, and, especially, remembrance. It is meant to inspire feelings of peace and calm in a turbulent world.

Read more about Heroes Garden.

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