The People Remember 9/11

A Community Memorial Service

A Service of

Representatives of a wide range of civic groups, churches, and merchants  joined to organize this service to remember the events of 9/11/01 and to reflect on how those events changed our lives and, in many ways, our future.  The program included color guards, a flyover by the Commemorative Air Force, patriotic and inspirational music, and a candlelight vigil.  The Southwest Children’s Chorus performed, along with other local talent.  The crowd was estimated at 1,000 - 1,500 people!  The First Presbyterian Church of Lancaster provided free cookies and water, which were a big hit, especially with the children.

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Our thanks go to the following individuals, organizations, and businesses for their support: 

History, despite its wrenching pain,
Cannot be unlived, and if faced
With courage, need not be lived again.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility
that comes with his freedom.

Maya Angelou, American Poet and Activist

Bob Dylan, American Singer/Songwriter

These are the times that try men's souls.  The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love
and thanks of men and women.

Thomas Paine, Revolutionary Patriot, Philosopher, and Writer

If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending; if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained -- we must fight!

Patrick Henry, American Revolutionary Leader

The next year, the next decade, in all likelihood the next generation, will require more bravery and wisdom on our part than any period in our history.  We will be face to face, every day, in every
part of our lives and times, with the real issue of our age -- the issue of survival.

John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States

This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

Elmer Davis,
American Writer and
Radio Commentator

A democracy is peace loving.  It does not like to go to war.  It is slow to rise to provocation.  When it has once been provoked to the point where it must grasp the sword, it does not easily forgive its adversary for having produced this situation.  The fact of the provocation then becomes itself the issue.  Democracy fights in anger -- it fights for the very reason that it was forced to go to war.

George F. Kennan, American Diplomat and Historian

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.,
American Civil Rights Leader

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady
and Writer

No man should think that peace comes easily.  Peace does not come by merely wanting it, or shouting for it, or marching down Main Street for it.  Peace is built brick by brick, mortared by the stubborn effort and the total energy and imagination of able and dedicated men.  And it is built in the living faith that, in the end, man can and will master his own destiny.

Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States

A vigorous democracy -- a democracy in which there are freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech -- would never succumb to communism or any other ism.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.  And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

Helen Gahagan Douglas, American Congresswoman and Actor

Dwight D. Eisenhower,
34th President of the United States

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States