Seneca Mayor remembers 9/11

A day that will live in infamy is being remembered across the country today as this marks 12 years since the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States.  Nearly 3,000 people died when terrorists hijacked jets, crashing them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.  Seneca Mayor Dan Alexander remembers that horrific day.  “It is hard to believe it has been that long but it almost seems like it was yesterday too.  I remember that day well; when I first heard the news, I walked over to my mother’s house and watched it on TV.  When I think back to that week and what this country went through, I remember this country really coming together.  You could feel the hearts going out to all the people that had lost their lives and their families.” Mayor Alexander tries to remember that week, 12-years ago, as the country coming together.  “I remember several nights there were we had services in the park downtown.  I remember my pastor Vonn Reynolds help coordinate some things that happened on those nights after that where we all came together and prayed for those families and our country.  Many different ministries from different faiths actually came to that ceremony that night.  I remember looking out into the crowd and it was huge crowd.  I remember everybody lighting the candles and I remember how that felt to me.  Everybody there together, there hearts were pouring out, they were touched in lots of different ways and it really hit home because there were several people from here that had people in that area that were affected.  So, it brought the country closer together.”  This year’s anniversary is expected to be the last before the Sept. 11 museum opens at ground zero in New York City this spring.