On Sept. 11, 2001, four planes were hijacked in the United States. Two were flown into the World Trade Centers, another into the Pentagon, and the fourth crashed in a rural field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. 2,977 people lost their lives that day, marking the worst terrorist attack in American history.

Bel Air High School students gathered outside for the fourth year yesterday, Sept. 10, to plant 2,977 flags; one for each lost life. Along with the flags planted in the ground, there is a beam of one of the World Trade Centers as well.

“It’s tragic that we have to remember a day like this in our history, it truly is. I want to express my gratitude to every student and teacher who helped set up the display. It gives me chills to look at the flags and the beam outside. It sends a truly powerful message to the Bel Air High School community to never forget the people who lost their live that day,” says the President of Bel Air’s Student Government Matt Robertson who was in charge of coordinating the planting of the flags.

The world will never forget the atrocities committed that day. The men and women who sacrificed their lives savings others will never be forgotten. The people who lost their lives in a mindless act of terror will never be forgotten.

September 11, 2001. Never forget.