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Bastrop ISD remembers 9/11

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Cadet Lieutenant James Ponticelli, NJROTC, overlooks the American flag during Bastrop High School’s Patriot Day ceremony in Bastrop Sept. 9. Courtesy photoUtility vehicles raise the American flag as a fire engine passes by during Bastrop High School’s Patriot Day ceremony in Bastrop Sept. 9. Courtesy photo

BASTROP — No current teenager was alive on one of the most tragic days of recent American history, but students took time last Friday to remember it.On Sept. 9, Bastrop High School’s National Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps, the high school band and choir commemorated Patriot Day. NJROTC cadets gathered in front of BHS to salute and remember 9/11.Patriot Day has been established to remember Sept. 11, 2001. Twenty years ago, hijackers tookcontrol of four passenger planes as part of a coordinated terrorist attack. Two planes hit the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. A third plane hit the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. A fourth plane crashed in an open field in Pennsylvania after ...

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