9/11 Commemoration 23rd anniversary celebrated Wednesday

BONNERS FERRY — In honor of those whose lives were lost or permanently impacted on Sept. 11, 2001, the Boundary County Chaplain Corps is sponsoring a local commemoration at the Boundary County Fairgrounds pavilion on Wednesday, Sept. 11, at 5: 30 p.m.

“Representatives of emergency services agencies will be in attendance, and the public is urged to attend as we remember and reflect upon one of the most momentous days in our national history,” BCCC chaplain Len Pine said.  

"It's been 23 years since the horrific attacks in New York City, Pennsylvania, and the Pentagon,” he said. “Many of us will never forget that day, or what it meant to our nation. But many do forget, and many now live who were not yet born then, and so have no personal recollection or context in which to put what they may have heard. It is important to remind ourselves of the import of that day, a day that changed all of our lives ever after, and to honor those that died, many sacrificially, in their efforts to preserve the lives of others.”