On Sept. 11, Sobrato Future Farmers of America leadership arrived at school in the early hours of the morning before their classmates arrived to set up a display to commemorate the loss of 2,977 lives in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S.
For the past five years, Sobrato’s FFA chapter has designed and built a symbolic arrangement that is displayed on the lawn in the quad of Sobrato High School’s Burnett Avenue campus.
Each miniature flag represents one of the lives that was lost on that day in 2001, and each is placed in its proper place in the pattern with the care and dedication of a proud FFA member.
This year’s design featured a pentagon with the numbers 9 and 11 constructed using smaller flags on either side. This ongoing tradition has earned the respect of students and holds an important type of reverence that assures the sacrifice of the victims as well as their families and friends will never be forgotten, according to FFA members.
