A Compilation of Quotes in Remembrance of 9/11, Exhibit City News Staff
“For those of us who lost people on that day, that day is still happening. Everybody else moves on. And you find a way to go forward, but that day is always happening for you,” Edward Edelman said as he arrived at New York’s World Trade Center to honor his slain brother-in-law, Daniel McGinley.
On that day, “we were one country, one nation, one people, just like it should be. That was the feeling — that everyone came together and did what we could, where we were at, to try to help,” Eddie Ferguson, the fire-rescue chief in Virginia’s Goochland County, said in an interview before the anniversary.
“Though we never met, I am honored to carry your name and legacy with me,” said Manuel João DaMota Jr., who was born after his father and namesake died.
Jason Inoa, 20, found it nerve-wracking to tell the crowd about his grandfather, Jorge Velazquez. But Inoa did it for his grandmother, who has Alzheimer’s disease. “The one thing she does remember is her husband,” he said afterward.
“As the years go by, it may feel that the world is moving on or even forgetting what happened here on Sept. 11, 2001,” said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who deployed to Iraq in the war that followed the attack. “But please know this: The men and women of the Department of Defense will always remember.”
Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, is expected at an afternoon ceremony at the Flight 93 National Memorial near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where another plane crashed after passengers tried to storm the cockpit.
At a morning observance, Rabbi Jeffrey Myers of Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, where a gunman killed 11 worshippers in 2018, called for ensuring that younger people know about 9/11.
“With memory comes responsibility, the determination to share our stories with this next generation, so that through them, our loved ones continue to live,” he told the gathering.
Sean Boger was one of the few people at the Pentagon who saw the plane coming in so low it took down a streetlight. “I just looked up and, you know, a plane was flying directly at us,” he told CBS News in 2021. He said it was just 10 to 15 seconds before the plane hit the building.
Boger was in the control tower for the Pentagon’s helipad when he saw the plane, which he said sounded “like someone sawing medal” when it hit. “I just couldn’t believe something that big could be flying that low and flying directly at us,” he said.
“Countless lives were spared thanks to their heroic actions, but all on board Flight 93 were lost,” the memorial says.
“We’re just a little bitty community,” Mayor Joe Maurath said by phone before the anniversary, but “it’s important for us to continue to remember these events. Not just 9/11, but all of the events that make us free.”
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Sources: AP News, CNBC, ABCNews, Fox5Vegas
