TORNADO DELAYED GRADUATION FINALLY HELD AT ALBAMA

About 3,300 University of Alabama graduates have finally gotten the chance to walk in cap and gown, more than three months after a tornado hit Tuscaloosa and forced their commencement to be postponed

 

Students remember fellow students, who lost their lives during the April 27, 2011 tornado, in a moment of silence on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011 in Tuscaloosa, Ala. The university held graduation exercises for its class of 2011 on Saturday and Friday night. The school says it's awarding 4,770 degrees in all during three ceremonies, and about 70 percent are for students who were supposed to graduate in May but had to wait because of the twister that struck near campus on April 27. (AP Photo/Butch Di