Video: Cobb 9/11 Memorial

The flag hanging from a ladder of a firetruck flew high above the during a 9/11 memorial held there Friday for public safety officers and others.

About 200 police officers, firefighters, other public safety personnel, Cobb County officials and some community members attended the event.

Cobb Fire Chief Sam Heaton, who led the memorial service, unveiled a piece of steel from the South Tower. The steel, which had been donated from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, will remain in the Safety Village on display for its 20,000 annual visitors “so that we will never forget and so that our children will never forget,” Heaton said.

“I can honestly say that when we collected money, over $7,000, to take to New York, I never really thought I’d be emotional about inanimate objects. But when you get close to it, I don’t know how you can’t,” Heaton said.

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