2,974 Flags In Front Of Bel Air Town Hall Honor 9/11 Victims

BEL AIR, MD — Nearly 3,000 flags were placed outside the Bel Air Town Hall Thursday, in advance of the 20-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

"We are going to be putting 2,974 flags in front of Town Hall," Bel Air spokesperson Patti Parker said, "in honor of the lives lost on 9/11."

The flags were installed Thursday morning and will be up through Monday, according to Parker.

The Town of Bel Air, Bel Air Police Department and Bel Air Volunteer Fire Company installed the flags outside Town Hall on Hickory Avenue.

More than 2,900 victims died in a series of terrorist attacks carried out by 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaida on Sept. 11, 2001. As a result of the attacks, 69 Marylanders lost their lives.

One plane and then another flew into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001. As the truth dawned on people watching from their TVs that America was under attack, another plane took aim at the Pentagon. A fourth was brought down in a field in Pennsylvania in a final act of heroism by passengers who realized their flight had been hijacked.