Chadds Ford remembered the fallen during a Sept. 11 ceremony at the Brandywine Battlefield Park Sunday.
The brief half-hour ceremony featured the ringing of the Remembrance Bell, as swell as comments from state Rep. Stephen Barrar, R-160, the Rev. Marcos Almonte — pastor at Brandywine Baptists Church — and Carl Closs, as Gen. George Washington reading Washington’s letter to the Continental Congress following the 1777 defeat at the Battle of Brandywine.
Almonte gave a remembrance prayer in honor of those who fell at Brandywine as swell as those who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
A color guard offered a musket salute to the fallen.
Barrar praised former President George W. Bush for his reaction following the 2001 attacks for vowing to fight to preserve freedom. Barrar referred to the attacks in New York, at the Pentagon and the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania as “a day our nation saw evil at its worse,” adding “We will prevail over the evil that exists.”
Almonte’s wife, Mary Almonte, and his three children rang the Remembrance Bell brought to the ceremony courtesy of Brother David Schatter, a Franciscan monk from Delaware.
About Rich Schwartzman
Rich Schwartzman has been reporting on events in the greater Chadds Ford area since September 2001 when he became the founding editor of The Chadds Ford Post. In April 2009 he became managing editor of ChaddsFordLive. He is also an award-winning photographer.
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