Remember the hours after September 11 when we came together as one!
It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.
John Kerry
**********
**********
“With almost no time to decide,
[your loved ones] gave the entire country an incalculable gift.
They saved the Capitol from attack. They saved God knows how many lives.
They saved the terrorists from claiming the symbolic victory
of smashing the center of American government. …
They allowed us to survive as a country that could fight terror and still maintain liberty
and still welcome people from all over the world
from every religion and race and culture as long as they shared our values,
because ordinary people given no time at all to decide did the right thing.”
President Bill Clinton in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in 2011
**********
**********
“When Americans lend a hand to one another, nothing is impossible.
We’re not about what happened on 9/11.
We’re about what happened on 9/12.”
Jeff Parness, founder of New York Says Thank You
**********
**********