Ken Savage Making IT in Massachusetts

9/11 + 5

Five years after the worst terrorist attack on American soil, families of some of the nearly 3,000 victims gathered Monday at Ground Zero for a solemn ceremony.

The commemoration included four moments of silence. Two for the times that hijacked planes hit the World Trade Center towers (which Dracut’s own John Ogonowski piloted flight 11) and two for when the burning towers collapsed into mountains of rubble, killing thousands of people working there and first responders who were trying to rescue them. Including my friend Ray Rocha.

An estimated 2,973 people were killed in the 9/11 attacks.

Memorials were also held in Washington and Pennsylvania.

After the wreath-laying ceremony, the president and first lady attended a service at Trinity Church near Ground Zero.

“It’s hard not to think about the people who lost their lives on September 11, 2001,” Bush said after the service. “You know, you see the relatives of those who still grieve, and I just wish there was some way we could make them whole. So [Monday is] going to be a day of sadness for a lot of people.”

But it’s also a day for affirming the nation’s fight against terrorists who would commit such acts against Americans and its allies, he said.

“It’s also a day of remembrance, and I vowed that I’m never going to forget the lessons of that day,” he said.

Let’s not forget all the meaningful information we got from the President, goverment and Homeland Security warnings.