In Maine, a lone voice of protest at a small-town 9/11 ceremony has raised questions about how some mourn, and others exploit, the legacy of that day.

Jamie Roux, whose father, James M. Roux, was one of the doomed passengers of 9/11’s United Airlines Flight 175, was arrested on Sept. 11, 2015 for interrupting a remembrance ceremony in Freeport, Maine.

The event—not unlike countless others that were held around the country that day—featured wreath-laying, a rendition of “Amazing Grace,” the town’s own “flag ladies,” and a number of speakers who shared tales of military bravery in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars that followed 9/11.

Though local media reports, here and here, painted Roux as a heckler who was detained and charged with disorderly conduct after resisting arrest, he says he was there to raise concerns about the U.S. military’s exploitation of 9/11 victims.

“On Sept. 11, 2015, I went to the Freeport Fire Station for the end of a 9/11 remembrance ceremony, which I had seen advertised on Facebook. I expected to see a ‘display of interesting Freeport Flag Ladies memorabilia and refreshments.’ I saw instead a program of military force,” Roux wrote in an op-ed published Tuesday in the Portland (Maine) Press Herald.

“To me, the ceremony was a painful example of my father’s murder being exploited to advance partisan, political and disturbing policies,” he said.

“Using Sept. 11 as a justification for an unnecessary war, torture, drone strikes and civilian casualties that followed compounds my grief and is wrong-minded and counterproductive,” Roux added.

You can read Jamie Roux’s complete statement published today below: