Mayor Plans 9/11 Remembrance with Nearly 3,000 Flags

Mayor Tish Colombi wants borough residents to speak to Haddonfield high school students about their memories of Sept. 11, 2001.

Colombi and school administrators have arranged for local residents to attend 35 history classes on Friday to relay their personal experience of that day to mark the 10th anniversary.

"We are hoping to share with these kids, the oldest of whom may be 18, was only 8 years old on that day," Colombi said in a statement. "Our personal stories will help them all understand the impact of this event on ordinary citizens."

Plans also call for students to place a total of 2,994 flags on the front lawn of the high school to form an outline of the United States. There will be one flag for every person who died in the attacks.

A bagpipe player will play "Amazing Grace" at 8:46 a.m. at the school, the time the first plane hit one of New York's Twin Towers. Borough fire horns will also sound at the times of each of four jetliner crashes that day, two in New York, one in Arlington, VA, and one in Pennsylvania.

Events on Sunday, the actual anniversary of 9/11, will include the reading of each victim's name and volunteers who will strike the bell at First Presbyterian Church at 1 p.m. and a memorial service at Grace Church at 7 p.m.