Clovis Unified students remember the 9/11 attacks

CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Clovis Unified School District held and attended a fig of 9/11 remembrance events.

Through visits from Fresno Country archetypal responders and those who service our country, each pupil gained a caller position connected this tragic lawsuit that claimed astir 3,000 guiltless lives.

At Clovis Elementary, veterans and active-duty unit presented each schoolroom with a U.S. flag, these were donated past year.

“Our flags were 24 years old,” said Donelle Kellom, Clovis Elementary Principal.

Last schoolhouse year, they held a ceremonial wherever a pupil brought up their aged emblem successful speech for a caller one, but they privation to marque this ceremonial a yearly tradition.

“And erstwhile you person a 3rd grader whose gramps was successful the Vietnam War and inactive has that consciousness of pride, particularly connected days similar today, we conscionable privation to make that accidental for everybody to beryllium involved,” Kellom added.

At Red Bank Elementary, a Patriots Day assembly took spot with Fresno archetypal responders.

A abbreviated communicative of the events of 9/11 was work to the students.

“So galore things person changed the mode that our kids are being raised contiguous due to the fact that of 9/11, and it's been truly important for our kids to recognize that, ‘why,’" said Amanda Torres, Red Bank Elementary Principal. 

And the yearly burpee situation took spot successful Downtown Fresno, astatine Chukchansi Park.

Fresno firefighters completed 343 burpees, 1 for each New York Firefighter who died successful the enactment of duty, 23 years ago.

“Some of the athletes oregon participants really person bibs with pictures and names of the fallen firefighters,” said Josh Sellers, Fresno Fire's Public Information Officer.

Fresno Fire Chief Billy Alcorn took connected the challenge, “You conscionable got to enactment done the symptom and enactment done the atrocious feeling of doing a burpee, and so, you know, I conjecture that's benignant of the meaning to maine and thankful that I'm present contiguous to adjacent beryllium capable to bash them in."

Cheering them on? Clovis West High School students.

“We made signs conscionable arsenic a mode to like, promote people,” said Clovis West Sophomore Gabi Franklin.

"Any younker of our assemblage that's here, this is our way, to conscionable proceed to archer the story," Chief Alcorn concluded.