||| FROM JOHN ERLY |||


When I visited the Orcas Island Fire Station across from the airport on September 11, I expected to see folks coming and going from the 9-11 Memorial. Small American flags lined the walk in front of the station.

Just inside the door is a piece of beam from the Twin Towers.

 

 

I hope some of the parents here on Orcas took their children to see it and explained how it changed the world we live in “forever.” Many of our young folks do not know how the Twin Towers changed our lives, or what the memorial stands for.

As a retired Marine and 12+ year volunteer Orcas firefighter, standing in front if it, brought tears in my eyes.


 

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