Thursday marks the 24th year people across the country will remember the thousands of lives lost on 9/11.

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Many events around our area will commemorate the day.

In Baltimore County neighbors planted over 2,000 flags. one for each life lost that day.

Among them was Janice Chance, the mother of Marine Captain Jesse Melton the third, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2008.

"The whole world changed as a result of 9/11. Everything changed, and now we come together as patriots to help to remember those who made that sacrifice and especially our children on that hill," Janice said.

And in Harford County, County Executive Bob Cassilly will lead a ceremonial wreath laying.

Like many people, he remembers exactly where he wa

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