| Last year on 9-11 a second county-wide event was held on Hamilton Field on High Street in Grantsville, sponsored by the Knotts United Methodist Church.
This year there is no organized event, just a welcome to come. A time to pray and meditate for America and for peace in our troubled world.
It will will a silent vigil, no words, no music, just time to reflect for one hour.
Participates are invited to bring a chair, if they like.
It starts at 7 p.m.
Looking back at "Community Comes Togther On Memorial Field" from The Hur Herald 9/11/2002:
Pastor Mary Zimmer welcomes the community, gives message of
hope
It was a coming back to the mountain experience last night at a special candlelight
memorial service for 9-11 survivors and the future of America. A large crowd gathered on
Hamilton Field above Grantsville to recall their experiences, hear a message of hope and
enjoy some special singing. VFW Post 5959 presented the colors.
Pastor Mary Zimmer called upon clergy people from around Calhoun to give prayer, and
those attending went forward to light their candles of remembrance from the "Christ
Candle."
During much of the day, national leaders and survivors met on "hallowed grounds" where
citizens lost their lives in the attack on America. There was a recollection of one of the
greatest speeches ever given, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this
continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal.
A field of hope
Honoring ...
The salute to the colors
Now we are engaged in
a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so
conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great
battlefield of that war.
Familes attend the event, together
VFW color guard
Women from local VFW Post
We have come to dedicate a portion of
that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their
lives that that nation might live.
Deputy Carl Ballengee "This is a moving experience"
Looking to the future ...
Light from the Christ Candle
It is altogether fitting and
proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot
dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground.
The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated
it far above our poor power to add or detract.
They are our future ...
Public servants attend event
Taps ...
The world will
little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never
forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be
dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here
have thus far so nobly advanced.
It is rather for us to be here
dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these
honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which
they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly
resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this
nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that
government of the people, by the people, for the people shall
not perish from the earth.
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