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PHS remembers 9/11, Hague

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PHS3 Photo by Douglass Huxley Parkersburg High School Principal Kenny Demoss talks about being in his classroom during the events of Sept. 11, 2001, while Parkersburg Mayor Tom Joyce listens. (Photo by Douglass Huxley)

PARKERSBURG - People gathered in front of Parkersburg High School this morning for the annual Sept. 11 remembrance ceremony to honor graduate Mary Lou Hague and all those who lost their lives in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Born and raised in Parkersburg, Hague was amongthe nearly 3,000 victims of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., as well as a hijacked plane that crashed in a Pennsylvania field. A 1992 Parkersburg High graduate, Hague was a financial research analyst for an investment banking firm and worked on the 89th floor of Tower Two.

Parkersburg Mayor Tom Joyce, a classmate of Hague’s, said if students want to honor Hague’s memory they should take it upon themselves to be be better students, better friends, better siblings, better sons and daughters and better citizens.

The best way students can pay tribute to Hague would “be better Big Reds,” Joyce said.

Read more in Tuesday’s edition of The Parkersburg News and Sentinel.

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