School District Cancels 9/11 Memorial, Goes After the American Flag in Sick Stunt

A high school in Minnesota canceled its students’ plans to honor victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks last week, and in doing so labeled memorializing those lost on one of America’s most somber days as a political action.

“Never forget” apparently means something different in Ely, Minnesota, to adults whose job is supposed to be to educate and guide young people.

In this case, those young people — students at Ely Memorial High School — wanted to plant American flags in honor of every person killed by radical Islamic terrorists on a day that forever changed the trajectory of our country and world, according to a report Thursday by the Young America’s Foundation.

In today’s political climate, however, doing so is apparently controversial, even in a small town.

Ely’s chapter of the conservative student group had plans to participate in the nationwide 9/11: Never Forget Project, which saw students take the initiative on the 20th anniversary of the events in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington to plant 2,977 American flags, one for each of those killed.

YAF’s national event asked students to “schedule a campus-wide moment of silence or prayer on September 11, at 9:11 a.m.”