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Sun City Huntley Preparing Rememberance Ceremony
Ten years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks Americans will gather to remember. Sun City Huntley will join that national day of mourning with a special ceremony.
Peg Mulhall held a dozen or so flags in her hand as she signaled where each of the 2,977 flags will go.
Each flag represents a life lost in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Mulhall joined with her friends, Catherine Portera, Mary Neigebauer, her daughter, Michele, Linda Bahwell and Barb Sracco to
The women invested $1,500 to purchase the flags and started planning the ceremony, which will include a narrative of the events that day 10 years ago will be read by Orion Samuelson, a Sun City resident and well known Chicago radio personality.
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A friend gave the group a flag from New York that reads “We Will Never Forget” across the top. The sentiment, Mulhall said, is what inspired the women to plan a memorial.
“I don’t want us to ever forget,” she said.
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