Milwaukee community remembers and honors 9/11

MILWAUKEE — Neighborhood members, first responders and metropolis leaders got here collectively on the Milwaukee County Conflict Memorial Middle Sunday morning to honor and bear in mind the lives misplaced from the 9/11 assaults.

The ceremony included remarks from Milwaukee County Govt David Crowley and Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson

“Within the midst of chaos and horror we additionally noticed greatness,” mentioned Crowley. “First responders that bumped into the battle. Women and men who put their lives on the road to save lots of others.” 

U.S. Marine Corps veteran Eugene Manzanet attended the ceremony. He grew up in New York however moved to Milwaukee. Manzanet was a banking officer on the U.S. Financial institution in downtown when the assaults happened.

“I bear in mind having to name relations who had been within the constructing in Tower One and listening to the background noise once they had been attempting to evacuate,” mentioned Manzanet.

His household made it out safely, however he mentioned it’s vital to recollect those who misplaced their lives.

“There have been so many who we’ve to proceed to recollect,” mentioned Manzanet. “One factor I do bear in mind distinctly about that point was not solely the uncertainty, however the sense of unity that introduced the nation collectively.”

And that unity was on show at Sunday’s ceremony, with a three-volley salute, wreath laying and, after all, a singing of America’s Nationwide Anthem.​