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| On Sunday, September 16, 2001 around 1:00 p.m. I was going to the local grocery to grab a few things for a soup I was making. Inside the front door of the store is a community bulletin board. I noticed a few flyers announcing a candelight vigil in our neighborhood park at 7:00 p.m. Sunday evening and decided to go. While there, I found out that community leaders had only decided that morning to have the vigil and sprang into action. These are pictures from what turned out to be an extremely moving and healing event. |
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| The flyer said to bring a candle and a flag. That's some flag. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. -- Daniel Webster Address at Bunker Hill, 1825 |
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| Not a bad turnout with only 7 hours notice. I estimate around 2,000 people from our community turned out for the event. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| This is the future of our country. We owe it to them to make it as safe a future as possible. |
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| It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us...that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion...that we were highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain...that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom...and that government of the people...by the people...for the people...shall not perish from the earth. -- Abraham Lincoln The Gettysburg Address, 1863 |
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| A sea of candlelight. The dark smudge you see above the treeline is smoke from the World Trade Center site. |
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