9/11 victims remembered 22 years later
EMILY BONSANT | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 1 year, 4 months AGO
Boundary County Fire Rescue Honor Guard member tolls the bell for those who died during the Sept. 11, 2001 attack at the 9/11 Memorial in Bonners Ferry.
(Photo By: EMILY BONSANT)
The American Flag is suspended onto a fire truck and hangs during the local 9/11 celebration in Bonners Ferry.
I have deep North Idaho roots and graduated from Eastern Washington University with an English degree with a creative writing emphasis with a minor in film. I worked at at the Bonner County Daily Bee before coming to work at the Bonners Ferry Herald in August 2021. I enjoy writing for the paper that my great-grandfather read and covering the same small town community that is still alive today. I cover all things Badger sports, local politics and government, community news, business, outdoors and appear on the 7Bee podcast for the Herald's update. When I'm not working I can be found reading a good book and sipping tea, knitting or attempting to sign opera. | September 14, 2023 1:00 AM
BONNERS FERRY — Twenty-two years after the Twin Towers were brought down and the Pentagon was hit, Boundary County first responders and community members continue to come together to honor those who died on Sept. 11, 2001.
Boundary County Chaplain Corps hosted the annual memorial, allowing those present time to grieve the day that forever shook the country. Chaplain Corps officials said the memorial offers a time to remember those lost in the terrorist attacks and honor their last minutes as many of them fought the hijackers.
The bell was tolled in order to honor the dead at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., Shanksville, Pa., and the first responders who perished in New York that horrific day.
A bell is rung in part as a reference to John Donne’s poem “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” which identifies the connection between mankind and empathy that one feels for their fellow man. The final five lines read:
Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.
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