Msgr. John Delendick, the FDNY chaplain who passed away from a 9/11-related cancer on Thanksgiving Day, joins a sad and growing list of people succumbing to illnesses they suffered due to their service at the World Trade Center site in the weeks and months following the 2001 attack. More.

For more than a decade, Sam Buser watched the lights of fire trucks bounce off the city streets of Houston, heard the roars of burning blazes and stood before the caskets of too many firefighters. More.

One Army veteran who now lives in Elizabethtown had an extraordinary military career that included saving lives on Sept. 11. More.

We look forward to seeing you at the 103rd annual NCSS conference in Nashville! Attend our sessions and don't miss our special free event on Saturday, “The Sounds of our Stories." Details below! More.

Phil Hamman knew someone died. The rumors began over a November weekend in 1973. He was a sophomore at Sioux Falls Washington High School. “We’d gotten some word in the neighborhood that some kids from our school had been killed, but we didn’t know any details,” Hamman remembered. “We thought maybe it was a car accident or something.” More.

As I sit here at the site where the Twin Towers fell, and where thousands of lives were lost in an unfathomable act of evil more than two decades ago, people on TikTok, X and other social media platforms are revering the architect of that massacre, Osama bin Laden. How did we get here? More.

On Saturday, Nov. 18, and Sunday, Nov. 19, the Tunnel to Towers Foundation held its National 9/11 Memorial at Tom Varn Park in Brooksville. The event featured a “5k Run and Walk” that began at 7:00 a.m., a motorcycle bike run, live music by The Embry Brothers and Jam Jones, artisan vendors, food trucks, and a space for children. More.

Tomorrow is our 22nd annual Thanksgiving Day Breakfast & Parade celebration! It’s a day when we express gratitude to first responders and their families, acknowledging their sacrifices and year-round service to their communities. More.