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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Fresno's Todd Beamer Park isn't conscionable immoderate metropolis park. For years, the parkland has hosted a ceremonial of remembrance for the lives mislaid connected 9/11. The parkland is besides named aft erstwhile Fresno State pupil and baseball player Todd Beamer.
“We bash it each twelvemonth and we admit not lone Todd Beamer and his heroism. I mean, helium was truly the archetypal counterattack against the terrorists that happened connected 911. But it's besides a remembrance, obviously, of the astir 3000 radical that died, each of the archetypal responders that showed tremendous courageousness and heroism connected that day," Fresno Councilmember Garry Bredefeld said.
The fifth annual solemnisation of remembrance took spot astatine Todd Beamer Park. Beamer was among different passengers connected formation 93 that took power of their level distant from hijackers headed towards the capitol.
“We are truthful fortunate that we person a parkland named aft 1 of the biggest heroes of 9/11. I'm successful our backyard. So our ngo is to truly pass the community, bring the assemblage together, amended the younger procreation that was not yet calved astir the value of 9/11,” Teens That Care Board President Jenny Ganson said.
Local precocious schoolhouse students got progressive successful the program, including Alek Krikorian who wrote his ain poem astir the attack, titled "Ashes of Clay".
“I wrote a poem astir the mode that benignant of we person to retrieve the events that happened connected 9/11. I speech astir a small spot astir the downsides, but besides the way we person forging forward, due to the fact that I deliberation it's truly important for our procreation to besides bespeak connected the past and larn from it," Krikorian said.
Chief Master Sergeant Leslie Sundstrom was a keynote speaker. She’s served successful the 144th Fighter Wing for decades, and recalls this time 23 years ago.
“I was driving up Guard Road and I was listening to the quality and I heard that the archetypal operation had been hit. And past erstwhile I got dressed successful my azygous and showed up successful my shop, we conscionable stood connected and watched the 2nd operation get deed unrecorded connected TV and we conscionable did what we trained to bash and did our occupation and close loaded airplanes to get acceptable to go," Sundstrom said.
The Fresno County Sheriff's bureau was besides progressive successful the program, performing a chopper flyover. It was each successful an effort to marque definite nary 1 ever forgets this time successful history.
“To spot each these young radical retired present enactment successful this is humbling that determination are inactive radical teaching our young kids to truly attraction and person patriotism towards our country," Sundstrom said.
Retired Master Sergeant Jeffrey Sundstrom was besides a keynote speaker. He excessively served successful astatine the 144th Fighter Wing for much than 3 decades.
