Jackson - Members of the Amador County Board of Supervisors placed flags around the County Administrative Building at 1 pm Thursday afternoon commemorating the eighth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Using hammers and zip-ties, Chairman Ted Novelli and Supervisor Brian Oneto secured miniature American flags in flower beds and on trees around the property. They also delivered flags to different departments within the county buildings. Novelli solemnly referred to the tragedy as “a very sad day for America” and Oneto called it a “catastrophic event.” Novelli said that county offices are usually closed for furlough Fridays, so the Board of Supervisors set out the flags on Thursday instead. The September 11 attacks were a coordinated and devastating terrorist attack on American soil. Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial jet airliners and crashed two of them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and one in the Pentagon in Washington D.C. Passengers on the fourth plane managed to overpower some of the hijackers and the plane crashed in a field near Shanksville in rural Pennsylvania. In total 2,993 people, including the hijackers, died in the attacks. The overwhelming majority were civilians, including nationals of over 90 countries. The United States responded to the attacks by declaring a “War On Terror”, invading both Afghanistan and Iraq. The damage to the Pentagon was cleared and a memorial was erected, but a memorial and new World Trade Center are still being erected in New York. Novelli said “we’ll never forget this dark day in our history.” Story by Alex Lane This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it