Central students stood in respectful silence as a color guard marched past.
The entire student body and staff at Westerville Central High School gathered in the Commons on Wednesday morning for a somber and moving ceremony commemorating the tragic events of September 11, 2001. That is when terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners and coordinated attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. The fourth plane was prevented from making it to its presumed destination in Washington D.C. when the passengers took control and crashed it in Pennsylvania. More than 3,000 people lost their lives that day.
Mlitary service men and women, police officers and fire fighters were present for Central’s annual remembrance ceremony, which took place at the exact time the first World Trade Center tower was struck. Brody Alexander, a seventh grade bagpipe player from Genoa Middle School, ushered in a color guard, which paused as Central students Ricky Owings and Abigail Leggett performed Taps. Although most pupils at Central were not even born when the attack occurred, they were urged to remember always what happened on that fateful day.