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Video: Yorkville's Patriot's Walk

Legion Commander Tim Conrardy: "We learned the absence of war does not mean peace."

About 200 people walked from to as part of the annual Patriot's Walk on Sunday commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

During the short program in the park, Mayor Gary Golinski announced plans to name the city’s new tennis courts Collman Courts in honor of , a 1977 Yorkville High School graduate and a flight attendant for Flight 11. That was the flight that

also sang the National Anthem, and traffic paused on Route 47 for a moment of silence.

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