SALISBURY – In 2001, Brandon Jones was just 7 years old. He was a second-grader at Morgan Elementary School when terrorists flew an airplane into the World Trade Center.
Today Jones, 18, is just three months into a new career path – Liberty firefighter.
Jones joined, he said, in order to be a part of the brotherhood.
Jones was just one of many emergency public servants who attended the annual 9/11 memorial service at the Salisbury-Rowan Firefighters Memorial.
“It makes me feel proud to be able to wear this uniform,” he said.
The service began at 9:30 this morning with uniformed officers assembling at the memorial site.
County Emergency Services Director Frank Thomason was the keynote speaker. Thomason talked about how many lives were changed on a day when many thought it would be just an ordinary day.
“What shocked us more was that it was our way of life that was attacked,” he said.
Thomason said the memorial service was a way to remember the “American spirit that burns in all of us.”
See Wednesday’s Post for more details.Contact reporter Shavonne Potts at 704-797-4253.