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South Attleboro Whitehawks Commemorate 9/11 [VIDEO]

A ceremony honoring those lost on Sept. 11, 2001, was held between South Attleboro football games.

The South Attleboro Whitehawks organized a ceremony to honor those lost on Sept. 11, 2001, on the 10th anniversary of the tragedy. 

Mayor Kevin Dumas, State Rep. Betty Poirier, city councilors Rick Conti, Walt Thibodeau and Cheri Felos and school committee members Jim Stors and Brenda Furtado were all on hand for the ceremony.

Stors’ son is a member of the Whitehawks’ football team who turned 11 years old today. “It’s hard to believe it’s been 10 years. It seems like it was yesterday,” said Stors.

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Paul Pouliot, the commander of the American Legion Post 312, echoed those sentiments saying, “It was such a tragedy. It’s hard to believe 10 years have passed.”

The ceremony, which included the American Legion’s color guard and riflemen, as well as the national anthem, presentation of flowers at the foot of the American flag and speeches from Dumas and Poirer, concluded with an appropriate quote from John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address:

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“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”

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