It was 23 years ago that the terrorist attacks on U.S. soil on September 11 took the lives of nearly 3,000 people.
A longstanding memorial at Monroe Community College in Brighton was the focal point for a ceremony on Wednesday.
The program to honor those who lost their lives has been going on nearly as long as the attacks themselves.
The 9/11 memorial at the MCC campus in Brighton was built the year after the attacks, in 2002. It was constructed so that at 8:45 a.m. every Sept. 11, the sun aligns with the monument, casting a shadow that bears a likeness to the Twin Towers that once stood in lower Manhattan.
Eric Wheeler is Assistant Director of Veterans Services at MCC, and he served 20 years in the military.