"We were all there sitting in the conference room just watching what was going on," says Barbara Marter, Executive Director for Weldon F. Osborn, as she recalls, "And crying... if you could cry, otherwise you were just in shock."

September 11th, 2001, is known as the most tragic day in United States history. Retired US Air Force Brigadier General Kevin Hyde believes this event is "What [he] calls the mosaic of our society whose lives were indelibly changed because of the cause of these events."

The morning of the attack, two planes crashed into the Twin Towers, then a third into the Pentagon. A fourth plane, known as Flight 93, crashed into a field while on its way to Pennsylvania. The attack took the lives of 2,977.

Local leaders gathered at the Hamilton County Courthouse for a Present

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