Sept. 11, Patriots Day again remembered in 2014

Photos and Article by Mary Alice Murphy

Jim and Connie Zawacki want to make sure that residents of Silver City do not forget the tragedies o Sept. 11, 2001. Thirteen years later, they continue to put flags along the pathways of Gough Park, rent a television to do a loop of 150 slides that depict the planes hitting the Twin Towers, the plane hitting the Pentagon, and the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania. Not only the events of the day are shown, but so, too, are photos of funerals of victims and first responders who lost their lives trying to save others.

The event, which was held Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014, also honors today's first responders, with the Silver City Fire Department Honor Guard posting the colors. People come to visit the park, see newspapers about the day the U.S. was attacked, visit the boards with names of those who perished. Visitors also commiserate with friends who may have been directly impacted by the happenings of that day 13 years ago.