Students across Benjamin Logan’s campus collaborated this week to observe the National Day of Service and Remembrance and to honor the victims who perished as a result of the terrorist attacks 20 years ago on Sept. 11, 2001.
Middle school art pupils in grades five through eight created a giant U.S. flag this week in a collage and mixed media style. The flag is hanging in the middle school commons for all to see.
At 8:46 a.m. Friday, the time the first plane, American Airlines Flight 11, struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center on 9/11, high school senior Gretchen Wilber read a script of remembrance over the school PA system and senior Brice Shump played “Taps” as a tribute to those who died for their country.
This was repeated throughout the morning by other BLHS students: 9:03 a.m. Averi Lane (script) and Graham Studebaker (Taps); 9:37 a.m. Kerry Copenhaver (script) and Isaac Napier (Taps); and 10:03 a.m. Lukas Hemmelgarn (script), Brice Shump and Isaac Napier (Taps).
Eighth-grade students Ella Chamberlain and Ramsay Mulholland each played “Taps” in the middle school grades fifth- and sixth-grade and seventh- and eighth-grade hallways for all to hear.
Local community first responders also were honored Friday evening during half-time of the Benjamin Logan Raiders home game against the Bellefontaine Chieftains.