Photo by Mike Brothers
“Flowers of the Forest” a traditional Scottish Highland bagpipes song, is played for first responders who passed away on 9/11/2011 by Oakland piper Paul Hinson at the Patriots Day observation held at Sullivan schools Monday, Sept. 11.

•September 20, 2017•

Monday, September 11 was Patriots Day and the 16th anniversary of the Twin Towers terrorist attack. A day that changed America forever.

Sixteen years later a generation of students who weren’t as yet born at that time wrestle with understanding what 9/11/2011 was all about.

Rebecca Lawson’s Mirror Images class at Sullivan High School has established a Patriot’s Day observance tradition that keeps the memory of that day alive.

For the past several years Mirror Image students have put together combined high school and middle school assemblies honoring local first responders and the memory of the 2997 people who died that day.      Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.