Honoring Our First Responders

What were you doing when you first heard about the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon? It’s hard to believe but that was 18 years ago, and yet I remember it as if it was yesterday. I was a school superintendent at the time and spent the rest of the day with our high school students following the news on televisions in the school library.

We must never forget the courage of the “first responders.” While others fled from the burning infernos, the courageous men and women from police as well as fire and rescue did what they were trained to do. They placed duty ahead of personal safet...