A Sept. 11 ceremony marked the opening of a Field of Honor display of 107 flags outside of St. Mary Church in Canandaigua to honor current and past servicemen and servicewomen, victims of the 9/11 terror attacks and first responders. The annual event has raised money for St. Mary School and for the JACK Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded following the death of 3-year-old Jack Heiligman of Webster in 2016. The Field of Honor will be on display Sept. 11-14.
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Father Michael Costik, parochial administrator of St. Benedict Parish, gives some remarks at St. Mary Church in Canandaigua Sept. 11 during the opening ceremony for the Field of Honor.
Richard Onze sits in the back of St. Mary Church in Canandaigua during the Field of Honor ceremony.
St. Mary School eighth-grader Rebecca Steinmetz reads names of some of the service members who are being honored.
Visitors walk through the Field of Honor.
A card containing information about the person being honored is attached to each flag.
A St. Mary School student reads one of the cards attached to a flag.
St. Mary School third-grader Henry May looks over the flags.
Flags stand in a Field of Honor outside of Canandaigua’s St. Mary Church.
A class of St. Mary School students lines up near the Field of Honor.
