Twenty years ago tomorrow, the first major terrorist attack on North American soil took place as a result of coordinated incidents in New York City and Washington DC, with a third attempt aborted when passengers overcame their hijackers, and crashed their plane in a Pennsylvania field.
The Manhattan skyline was forever altered with the disappearance of the twin towers of the World Trade Centre into a pile of rubble, while in Washington, the Pentagon, headquarters of the U.S. Military itself sustained damage.
As we’ve seen since, real estate can be replaced- but no so with lives lost.
Still, 9-11 is remembered for the heroism of First Responders who sacrificed their lives protecting the public that day- or later succumbed to health maladies related to the disaster.
Jeff Crawford, the recently-retired Chief of the Arnprior Fire Service remembers the occasion vividly.
Crawford says there are many telling statistics about the First Responders we have since immortalized.
The recently-retired Chief of the Arnprior Fire Service, says although his first-responder brothers and sister aren’t with us to answer one key question, he has no doubt what the response would be.
9-11 altered everyone’s lives in many ways we’ve since become accustom to, except for those who died that day and the future they never saw.
