South Bend held its community service Sunday morning by the Firefighter's Memorial at Seitz Park on the East Race. During the ceremony, a steel beam from the World Trade Center was presented.

The firefighters of Osolo Township unveiled their 9/11 monument on Sunday afternoon.

The centerpiece is an eight-foot steel beam, once a part of the World Trade Center's North Tower.

The ceremony honored the emergency responders who lost their lives that day. Hundreds came to pay their respects, including one South Bend woman whose daughter was one block away from ground zero, and survived.

South Bend resident Michelle Nochenson says, “Any kind of reminder of what happened that day, it upsets me, it's traumatized me, but today, being the tenth anniversary, something said I need to be here.”

Volunteers spent hundreds of hours over two years to bring the beam to Elkhart County.

Meanwhile, students at The Howe School honored the fallen of 9/11 with a memorial parade.

The military academy has honored the victims every year for the past nine years.

The Junior ROTC students have learned that even though they may be too young to remember, 9/11 was history they should never forget.

Junior Benjamin Stevenson says, “As time goes on and this moves farther and farther into the past, certain generations and certain youth will just forget about it, and that shouldn't happen.”

Col. Tyler Osenbaugh, Sr. Army Instructor at Howe says, “Many of the students here, the oldest ones were 8 years old, now that we've been involved in the global war on terror for the past 10 years, it's important for them to understand why we are doing that.”

Senior Erinn Davis, 1st Lieutenant, says, “I understand more, and I respect the FFs and everyone more than I did before when I didn't know what was going on.”

The ceremony included a cannon blast timed at precisely 8:46 a.m., the moment the first plane struck the World Trade Center ten years ago.