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Volume 23, Number 37
NEVER FORGET
Thursday, September 9, 2021
September starts with soggy deluge
Communities across Connecticut have plans to honor the lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001. Twenty years ago, two hijacked planes were flown into the twin towers at the World Trade Center in New York City, another crashed in a field in Pennsylvania — Flight 93 — and a fourth slammed into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. More than 3,000 people were killed in the attacks, which resulted in the United States going to war in both Iraq and Afghanistan. The public is invited to join the Berlin Fire Department as members gather to observe the 20th anniversary of 9/11 Saturday, Sept. 11 at 8 a.m. The fire department is located at 1657 Berlin Turnpike.
The state was deluged with heavy rains and flooding Sept. 1 and 2, the remnants of Hurricane Ida, which dumped more than half a foot of rain on much of Connecticut and wreaked havoc across the Northeast. Berlin received 5.35 inches of rain by daybreak on Thursday, Sept. 2, according to the National Weather Service and the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow Network. “Due to heavy rain, there are many roads throughout town that are flooded and
impassable,” the Berlin Police Department stated in a Sept. 2 Facebook post. “Please do not attempt to drive through flooded roads! The following roads are currently closed. Please avoid these areas and plan accordingly. Farmington Avenue/ Main Street (underpass), Lower Lane between Farmington Ave and Patterson Way, Beckley Mills Road, Deming Road (by ASSA/ABLOY), Wethersfield Road (Between Beckley Mills and White Oak).” See Deluge, A4
9/11 flashback: Let us remember. Let us be one. Moments of great personal and national tragedy are as etched in our hearts and minds as the presidential likenesses on Mount Rushmore. September 11, 2001 is
past, but its legacy today continues to be acutely felt both domestically and internationally.
and at us.
This day, one year ago, darkened the tone of political rhetoric and set the stage for the unfolding of a different way of living – a redefining of national security and a reassessment of how the rest of the world looks both to
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As the foundations of the World Trade Center were assaulted from the impact above, something fundamental about what it means to be an American shook and resonated within the pillars of our democratic fortress. Our homeland had been assaulted in a way few would have thought possible.
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This day, one year ago, changed the focus of a presidential administration. The pressing national agenda before this moment suddenly yielded to the immediate mandate of dealing with an insidious enemy that caught us by surprise. Suddenly, the relative sense of immunity from attack from beyond our oceans faded into the sunset of memory.
On this day, one year ago, the nation became vulnerable, standing in amazement at the devastation of buildings, planes and, especially, the thousands of lives abruptly ended. A sense of chaos permeated the air as a faceless, unknown enemy brought destruction upon icons of American financial, military See 9/11, A2
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(This editorial ran in the Record-Journal one year after the 9/11 attack. Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021 marks the 20year anniversary of the assault on our nation.)