Red, white and blue were the colors of the day for students of the Long Beach Island Consolidated School District as they combined history and music to commemorate the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and Patriot Day at two separate events last week.

The events at the LBI Grade School in Ship Bottom and the Ethel A. Jacobsen Elementary School in Surf City were held outside on Sept. 9, two days before the 21st anniversary for the 9/11 attacks in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.