By Phil Orenstein
As a nation, we recently commemorated the seventh anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, one of the most horrific attacks against the United States in our nation’s history. It was a day of national mourning with memorial services, moments of silence and special events for the victims’ families as every New Yorker and folks all across the country touched by that fateful day shared recollections, stories and tears.
That morning, I shared an emotional moment with a co-worker who had just come from an early morning church memorial service where the names of the local victims were solemnly commemorated. One of the victims of the tragedy was a dear friend, FDNY Firefighter Michael Elferis, a fallen hero who rushed into the burning buildings to save the lives of trapped victims. My co-worker’s husband, who worked for Con Edison, spent three weeks as a first responder at Ground Zero fit testing respirators. We vowed to each other never to forget the memories of the fallen and the war that radical Islamic terrorists declared against our country. Read more ...
As a nation, we recently commemorated the seventh anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, one of the most horrific attacks against the United States in our nation’s history. It was a day of national mourning with memorial services, moments of silence and special events for the victims’ families as every New Yorker and folks all across the country touched by that fateful day shared recollections, stories and tears.
That morning, I shared an emotional moment with a co-worker who had just come from an early morning church memorial service where the names of the local victims were solemnly commemorated. One of the victims of the tragedy was a dear friend, FDNY Firefighter Michael Elferis, a fallen hero who rushed into the burning buildings to save the lives of trapped victims. My co-worker’s husband, who worked for Con Edison, spent three weeks as a first responder at Ground Zero fit testing respirators. We vowed to each other never to forget the memories of the fallen and the war that radical Islamic terrorists declared against our country. Read more ...
Source: FrontPage Magazine
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