The flags go up at Milton High this week

The flags go up at Milton High this week. Thousands of small American flags, one for each person killed on September 11, 2001, will cover the front lawn along Birmingham Highway ahead of the school's 9/11 ceremony, which falls on the 25th anniversary this year. The ceremony is Friday, September 11, at 10 a.m., between the front steps and the lawn, and the city says anyone is welcome.

Students run it, as they have for years. Each year a handful of them tell the stories of individual victims, and the orchestra, chorus, and band play. This year's keynote is Dr. Stewart Gordon, a forensic dentist who served with the World Trade Center Mortality Identification Unit, the team that identified victims in the weeks after the towers fell. He has been a docent at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in Manhattan since 2014. Milton police and firefighters attend, and Mayor Peyton Jamison is among the speakers.

If you cannot make Friday morning, the flags are the thing to see. Drive past 13025 Birmingham Highway any day this week.

Source: City of Milton release, September 4.