By Tribune staff report -- The student choir from Laguna Middle School joined U.S. military veterans, local police officers and firefighters and others Friday in a ceremony in San Luis Obispo to commemorate the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.The morning service was highlighted by the placing of a plaque on a memorial flagpole to honor New York police officer Moira Smith, the first officer to report the terrorist attack when she witnessed a plane striking the first World Trade Center tower. She was killed in the attack and was the only female officer of the NYPD to die on 9/11.Commemoration ceremonies were also held Friday in Grover Beach and Cambria.

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