Originally posted Saturday, September 15, 2001
Young, old and in between come together on Friday

[September 11, 2021]  Mary Olson, who remembers Pearl Harbor, was one of the 1200 to 1500 folks who attended the ceremony Friday at 4:15 p.m. on the lawn of the Logan County Courthouse to show her patriotism and her sympathy for the rescue workers in New York City.

“I think it’s wonderful,” she said. “Everybody’s coming together. That’s what we’ve got to do to get back at the terrorists. We’ve got to stick together, through thick or thin.

“Pearl Harbor was terrible,” she remembers, “but that was away from us. This is worse.”

Tim McCormick came alone. The reason? His wife was still in New York City. She was four blocks away, standing on the sidewalk, when the hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Buildings. She was, fortunately, not hurt, and she rented a car and will soon be home, but Tim was still feeling outrage, anger and fright.

He was grateful for the public ceremony, which he said was helping him during the time he has such concern about his wife. The ceremony is the kind of thing he expects in the City of Lincoln.

“We haven’t had anything like this since Pearl Harbor. I think its terrific that politics has been put aside.”

The four Bone children came to the ceremony with their mother, Jennifer, who is a teacher at Elkhart.

“I think it’s important that my children come and see our community pull together,” she said. “The two oldest ones understand the loss of life of the firemen in New York. They see the firemen pulling together like an extended family.

“They have had programs at school, but as a family we haven’t had a chance to be part of a program together until now.”

Camillia, age 9, and Brittney, 7 1/2, “will remember where they were when all of this happened,” she said. They will be able to tell Allison, age 4, and Quentin, 3, how it was in Lincoln on September 14.

[Joan Crabb]

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