09/11/2026
Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of September 11, 2001
Twenty-five years have passed since the morning the sky turned black and the world changed forever. On that day, ordinary men and women became extraordinary. While so many ran from the fire, others—firefighters, police officers, emergency medical workers, and everyday heroes—ran into it. They climbed stairwells filled with smoke. They searched collapsing floors. They held the hands of strangers until the end. They chose courage over safety, duty over fear, and love of neighbor over self-preservation.
We still feel the devastation. We still carry the empty chairs at family tables, the names etched in stone, the silence that falls every year at 8:46 a.m. Nearly three thousand souls were taken from us in an act of pure evil. Their absence remains a wound that does not fully close. And yet, even in that darkness, light broke through.
The streets of heaven are too crowded with angels. On September 11, those streets grew fuller still—with the innocent, with the brave, with first responders who gave everything so that others might live. Their sacrifice did not end in the dust and the flames. It continues in every life they saved, every child who grew up because a stranger refused to leave them behind, and every American who still chooses service over bitterness.
Today the Gloucester Township Republicans pause in gratitude. We honor those who ran toward the fire. We remember those murdered in the name of evil. And we renew our promise: that their courage will not be forgotten, that their example will not be ignored, and that the freedom they defended will be protected by free men and women for generations to come.
May we live in a way that makes their sacrifice worth it. May we remain worthy of the angels who still walk among us—and of those who now crowd the streets of heaven.
Never forget.