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Bluebag Media
GJH conducts
13th annual 9-11 ceremony
GREENVILLE – “Thirteen years ago our lives were changed forever…”
Greenville Junior High School Principal Chris Mortenson addressed
nearly 400 students, plus teachers, observers and first responders. It
was Sept. 11, 2014. He was talking about the horrific event that took
place on the same date in 2001… the destruction of the World Trade
Towers in New York City by Al Qaeda operatives.
He talked of the heroism… “Ordinary people changed our concept of what
constitutes a hero.” And he talked of the reason students were standing
in the junior high parking lot on a chilly morning in September… “On
Sept. 11 we observe Patriots Day to remember the lives lost and the
impact on their families, and on our country.”
The governor of Ohio has ordered all flags on state and local
government properties fly at half-mast. Mortenson then turned the event
over to the Greenville High School Navy Junior ROTC team which
performed a drill, then lowered the flag to half-mast. The ceremony was
followed by the Pledge of Allegiance, then the featured speaker, Thomas
Pitman of the Darke County Veterans Services Office...
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