Faith Lutheran honored each person who lost their lives on 9/11 in a unique way. Twenty-two years ago the Twin Towers were hit by hijacked planes, and close to 3000 people died. The middle school teachers at Faith Lutheran honored those people who lost their lives by placing 2,977 American flags in the lawn of amphitheater for each person who died.
Teachers who organized the memorial said that it is important for us to do this because we want to recognize the families who are suffering from the loss of loved ones and to also honor the brave firemen who ran back into the building to try to save as many people as they could.
This is a Faith family tradition started many years ago by a former student Renee Vogel. History teacher Mrs. Carroll carries on this tradition. “The teachers all got together because we saw that many years ago they were putting the flags out and honestly I’m not sure exactly who started it but it was many many years ago and they would only do it like every 5 years,” said Carroll.
“Now we do it every year on the anniversary, continued Mrs. Carroll, “The reason all these teachers do this is because it’s important to remind the Faith Lutheran student body about the sacrifices that happened on 9/11.”
Even though, Faith students weren’t alive when the attack happened, we still suffer the effects today. Some teachers at Faith were toddlers when this happened and learned about the consequences of 9/11 with the students. It’s important that we all learn together what happened and how it changed how we live today.
Kameron Paymon, a seventh grader prayed this; “On this day of remembrance, we pray for the family of Sanae Mori grant them the peace that only you can give Lord if they do not know you as a savior open their eyes to see you and their truth. Help them every day to see the light in the midst of darkness in Jesus’ name, Amen.”
Placing a flag not only symbolizes the people we lost but also the patriotism that came from that day, explained another history teacher Miss Kosberg. We know that saying a prayer doesn’t make things immediately better however, Kosberg said,
“We know that we’re not the powerful person in prayer it’s God who’s the powerful person and so it’s okay that the families may never know that some seventh grader in Las Vegas Nevada was praying for them that day.
