Students throughout the Locust Valley Central School District held Patriot Day ceremonies in remembrance of the lives lost in the Sept. 11 attacks 23 years ago.
At the middle and high school, the Back the Blue Club and social studies department commemorated the solemn occasion with readings of patriotic poems and beautiful renditions of Taps and The Star-Spangled Banner by juniors Sara Nearenberg and Sarah Paulus, respectively.
Bayville and Locust Valley elementary schoolers gathered at events at Bayville Primary School and Ann MacArthur Primary School where students read about heroes in their lives and placed small American flags into the ground to honor those lives lost two decades ago.