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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - 23 years ago, hijackers crashed rider planes into the Twin Towers successful New York City, sidesplitting astir 3,000 people.
The Central Valley assemblage gathered astatine the Clovis 9/11 Memorial to honor victims and survivors Wednesday.
"Something dramatically, tragically happened connected that day," erstwhile New York Giants Defensive End George Martin said.
Martin has spent years moving to rise consciousness of those who were impacted by 9/11.
He was the keynote talker astatine Wednesday’s event, sharing his grief implicit the tragedy.
"To spot however an full metropolis and subsequently a state tin beryllium decimated by specified disaster, it deed maine and it deed maine highly hard," Martin said.
He says helium is often heralded arsenic an American leader but sees archetypal responders arsenic the existent heroes.
Wednesday’s ceremonial included the playing of Taps, the 21-gun salute and the singing of the National Anthem.
"It's a solemn ceremonial and precise tradition-steeped… It's a existent tribute to those who mislaid their lives connected September the 11th," California 9/11 Memorial Executive Director Terra Brusseau said.
She says the federation did not enactment down that day, though. Americans united, rebuilding a consciousness of information 1 time astatine a time.
“After the attacks, we came unneurotic arsenic a state and we were each Americans," Brusseau said.
"God bless America, and I anticipation that we proceed arsenic 1 unified front," Martin said.
Brusseau encourages the assemblage to sojourn the Clovis 9/11 memorial to bespeak connected the events.
Each grounds has a QR codification for visitors to scan truthful they tin larn much astir what happened that day.
