The annual Tribute in Mild is illuminated above Decrease Manhattan on the twenty first anniversary of 9/11 on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022, in New York. Julia Nikhinson, Related Press
Memorials throughout america are nonetheless being held to honor the victims of Sept. 11, 2001, and new methods to recollect them are being created 21 years later.
In Russellville, Kentucky, college students from the JROTC and members of the neighborhood teamed as much as run practically 3,000 laps round Russellville metropolis sq.. One lap for every sufferer.
Occasion planner and Logan County Excessive College JROTC Battalion Commander Nevaeh Seawright instructed WBKO Information that the college often does in-class actions to commemorate the victims, however this time she needed to do one thing totally different.
“We see 9/11 issues throughout, so we determined we needed to develop our attain,” Seawright mentioned.
Every participant obtained an American flag to carry whereas they walked or ran across the sq., and a 9/11 sufferer’s identify was introduced earlier than every lap. Group members have been invited to take part.
Seawright mentioned that this was a approach for the JROTC to attach with the neighborhood. Whereas she was younger in the course of the assault, she mentioned she is aware of how the assault nonetheless impacts many individuals and needed to assist.
The occasion impacted neighborhood member and sports activities radio host, Kige Ramsey, who mentioned the occasion “meant the world to him.” He nonetheless remembers the second he realized of the assault in his first-period well being class.
Final 12 months, Ramsey went again to the place the place he first heard concerning the Twin Towers being hit. He remembers sitting in Russelville Excessive College in classroom 31.
The principal’s voice came to visit the intercom and mentioned one thing to the impact of, “We're all proper proper now,” Ramsey recounted to WBKO Information. “‘We're praying for the victims who're affected by the tragedy in New York and Washington.’ I didn’t know what was happening.”
He participated within the occasion deliberate by Seawright to recollect the victims and mentioned he hopes future generations will proceed to “hold their reminiscence alive” like the scholars who're working in honor of those that died within the assaults.