Shown are Park Avenue Memorial Elementary students in the rotunda of their building, where they erected Kindness Towers to commemorate September 11, 2001, and to remind them of the positive characteristics of a hero. To commemorate September 11th in a positive, uplifting way, the entire student body at Park Avenue Elementary School in the Amityville Union Free School District created their own Kindness Towers.

Each student received a bright yellow index card, upon which they wrote one word to describe a hero, recalling the brave actions of 9/11 firefighters and other volunteers. Giant, laminated Twin Tower replicas made of black cardboard were placed in the rotunda of the building. Students took their index cards with their hero words, and throughout the course of the day, visited the rotunda and the replicas with their classes, where they affixed their index cards to the blackened Tower replicas.

After all the cards were placed, the towers appeared "lit' with the yellow index cards that dis- played the students' ideas about words that describe a hero. The Kindness Towers will remain in the Park Avenue rotunda for the month of September as a reminder to students not just of the bravery exhibited during the 9/11 tragedy, but also of how they should aspire to live by the very same virtues a hero exhibits.