Sub base holds 9/11 ceremony
Groton ― A Sea Services 9/11 Remembrance ceremony took place Wednesday at the Historic Ship Nautilus & Submarine Force Museum on Wednesday.
During the ceremony, a cannon was fired to mark the time that planes crashed into the World Trade Center towers and the west wall of the Pentagon, the collapse of the south and north towers at the World Trade Center and the plane crash in rural Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001. Speakers talked about their experience on that day and about the first responders.
A Flag Retirement ceremony was also held. An American flag is retired when it becomes worn, torn, faded or badly soiled. Assistant Chief Kurt Macdonald of the SUBASE New London Fire Department received a new flag In recognition of the department’s first responders.
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