Photo by Bonnie Hobbs.
Each year on Sept. 11, the front lawn of West Centreville Fire Station 38 is adorned with multitudes of small American flags. This station’s firefighters responded to the Pentagon on 9/11 and also draped a huge American flag over one side of the building. And on every anniversary of that tragedy, they place 343 flags outside their station in honor of the 343 firefighters who lost their lives that day in New York. Each little white tag atop every flag contains the name and unit of one of those firefighters.