Palatine’s 9/11 Memorial Ceremony
Palatine marked the 11th anniversary of 9/11 with a memorial ceremony at Palatine's Firefighter Memorial Tuesday morning.
On the 11th anniversary, the Village of Palatine held a memorial ceremony to honor the nearly 3,000 people who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.“9/11 is our generations day of infamy and we will never forget it,” said Palatine Firefighter, Mark Hallet. In front of Palatine's Firefighter Memorial Tuesday morning Hallet said 9/11 forever changed Americans and people all across the world, “I think we see the images everyday.” More than a decade later, the now retired firefighter said the images, events, emotions and everything else from that day are still clear in his memory and ingrained in the minds of firefighters everywhere. “The day this occurred meant a lot of us,” Hallet said, “We realized if that were …
