Area residents remember 9/11 at busy intersection

More than 30 Burnet County residents, many of them Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6974 local members, gathered at noon Sept. 11 in Burnet at the intersection of Texas 29 and U.S. 281 to commemorate Patriot Day and to remember 23 years ago, when terrorists hijacked commercial aircraft and killed thousands as they attacked the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington D.C.

Also, Sept. 11, 2001, several passengers perished as one hijacked commercial airplane crashed into a rural field in Pennsylvania, soon after passengers on board the jet prevented terrorists from perpetrating an attack on the U.S. Capitol.