REFLECTION AND PRAYER ON 9-11 ANNIVERSARY - A Silent Vigil Tonight On Hamilton Field

(09/11/2003)
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.