ELMIRA, NY (WENY) -- Every year, students, staff, and first responders help place small flags at Elmira College to represent the lives lost in the September 11th, 2001, terrorist attacks. Twenty-four years later, people are still honoring the nearly 3,000 people who lost their lives, even those who didn't know anyone or weren't born yet. Elmira Police Chief Kristen Thorne reflected on the turnout, saying, "I enjoy seeing a lot of our youth here, a lot of the college kids came out; They weren't even alive when this happened 24 years ago. So to see them come out, that's huge. The lasting effects of this are living on, (and) we're memorializing these heroes who died that day." Following the ceremony, a moment of silence was held at 8:46 a.m., the time when the first plane hit the Nort

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