 On Monday, September 11th, Big Sandy Community and Technical College hosted a 9-11 memorial event at their Pikeville campus. Students, faculty and local first responders gathered to pay tribute to the innocents who lost their lives 22 years ago. Big Sandy also aims to bring the community together and educate those who are too young to remember the tragedy. Every year, since this happened, we have done a ceremony like this and we like to keep that going. A lot of our students are so young that they don't remember that event that day. We want to keep that memorial going so they know what happened, how the country changed at that time. Here at Big Sandy, we're about community and we want to just reach out to our community, to our people here and just make something for them so that they can gather together as one, as the song that Lindsey sang today. They can gather together as one to come together and memorialize, especially the people who died, you know, and just think about what could happen to this nation, it could happen again. We hope not, we pray not, but we want to remember. At Appalachian Wireless, we have the best service and the best deals right now. Save up to $500 on iPhone 13th and 14th, all models, all gigabytes with trade-in. Maybe go for an iPhone 12 for a penny. A penny with a two-year contract. We're not leaving out Samsung. Save up to $350 on select Samsung devices, including the S23. It's a win-win this month at Appalachian Wireless. The service, the savings, y'all got to jump on this deal right now. At Appalachian Wireless, we get you, because we are you. We are Appalachian Wireless. Pikeville police and fire departments were in attendance to raise the flag to half-mast and conduct the Pledge of Allegiance. Because of their efforts today, we can remember the fallen. We appreciate them so much. They come, they do a great job. They're always willing. Even that drop of a hat, you know, I just called them like Thursday last week and they're here today. And there's such great people to have around. They're great responders. We know they're close by. We feel safe, you know, and we're just happy that they want to come out and do this with us. I counted at least 65 people in the atrium and more people come in after that. So we had a great gathering. And that's changing back to what it used to be, where we can bring our people together again and celebrate or memorialize something like this, like 9-11. It was good to see such a crowd here. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Nick Collum.