For today’s eighth graders, the events of 9/11 are almost twice as remote as their own birth. At Frazier Middle School in Perryopolis, eighth-grade students commemorated the 25th anniversary of the terroristic attacks with a memorial ceremony Friday afternoon, capping off a week of in-class ...
Connellsville hosted a remembrance ceremony Thursday evening at Veterans Plaza to honor those who lost their lives in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. As part of the ceremony, two lights were illuminated in the sky from 7 p.m. to midnight to represent the World Trade Center’s Twin ...
On a clear, cloudless morning much like the one 24 years ago, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were remembered in a ceremony on the outer edge of the Washington Mall parking lot Thursday. It happened near the site of a marker remembering the 2,977 people who were killed at the World ...
Navy Command Master Chief Ron Shroyer was training a group of new counselors for the VA when the first plane hit the World Trade Center Tower at 8:46 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001. On Wednesday, Shroyer recalled for those assembled at the 9/11 observance in Connellsville the angst and fear as they ...
Speaking to a crowd on a perfect September morning, Pastor Robert Grewe listed off the names of four people killed in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. He explained there was no specific reason he used those names – they were just chosen randomly from the nearly 3,000 people who ...
