Flags are being flown at half-staff in Kansas today in remembrance of 9/11.

Governor Laura Kelly directed flags be lowered to half-staff on all state buildings, grounds and facilities from sunup to sundown today to honor those who lost who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Governor Kelly says 22 years after an act of terrorism took the lives of nearly 3,000 Americans, injured thousands more and scarred so many, we continue to say, “Never Forget”.

She says the extreme tragedy of that day is only half the story as we also remember the country’s first responders, who went above and beyond the call of duty to save lives even as they lost more than 400 of their own. They did that 22 years ago, and they continue to do so to this day.