As I was preparing remarks for the site, I received an email from Kasim Reed the Mayor of Atlanta. Please see his remarks below, regarding September 11, 2001:
Eleven years ago a small group of people thought they could break the spirit of our nation; bury it in a terrible cloud of fire and ash. They were wrong.
Those people thought they knew America. They were wrong.
The pain that we experienced on 9/11 was very real, and the wounds are still healing. But, like a phoenix rising from the ashes, our spirit was not broken on that day. It was set free.
Rising from that cloud of smoke and ash was the essence of the American dream. Across the world, people stopped and acknowledged that, whatever our differences, we are - every one of us - human beings worthy of dignity and respect.
It's hard to believe that it's been over ten years since that day. The memory still burns in each of us. But part of that burning comes from the strength of our passion to keep struggling for progress.
Eleven years ago today, those misguided souls did not show us our weakness. They showed us our strength.
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