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Never Forget: A Prayer of Remembrance — 25 Years After 9/11 · HAVE FAITH LET IT BEGIN®

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  Hello everyone and good morning. My name is Angel Santana.
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  Today there will be no regular episode of Have Faith Let It Begin.
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  Today we pause.
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  Today is a prayer of remembrance. Today we remember.
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  25 years ago on the morning of September 11th, 2001, the United States experience
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  one of the darkest days in our nation's history.
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  For some listening today, you remember exactly where you were.
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  But there's now an entire generation that was not alive when it happened.
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  So, I believe it's important that we continue to tell the story.
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  On that morning, September 11th, terrorists hijacked four passenger planes.
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  Two were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City.
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  Another struck the Pentagon in Virginia.
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  Passengers and crew aboard Flight 93 fought back against the hijackers,
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  and the plane crashed in Pennsylvania.
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  Nearly 3,000 people were killed. There were mothers and fathers, sons and daughters,
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  Husbands and wives Friends and co-workers Firefighters Police officers Emergency medical personnel,
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  And ordinary people who began what they believed would be another ordinary day,
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  For countless families, life would never be the same And so today,
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  25 years later We remember them we remember those who ran from danger we honor
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  those who ran toward it to help complete strangers.
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  We remember the first responders who gave their lives that day.
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  We remember those who became sick or lost their lives in the years that followed
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  because of their service at that attack site.
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  We also remember the survivors and every family that continues to carry the
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  loss of someone they loved.
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  And now, wherever you're listening, I invite you to join me in a prayer.
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  Let us pray. Heavenly Father, today we remember.
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  We remember life and every life taken on September 11, 2001.
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  We remember their names, their families, their stories, and the empty places left behind.
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  We pray for those who still carry grief 25 years later.
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  We give thanks for the firefighters, police officers, emergency workers,
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  military personnel, medical professionals, volunteers, ordinary citizens who
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  responded with extraordinary courage.
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  Lord, teach future generations what happened that day, not so that they inherit
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  hatred, but so that they understand the cost of violence and the value of peace.
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  We are world right now is divided.
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  Help us seek understanding. Where there is hatred, help us choose love.
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  Where there is fear, give us courage. And where there is darkness,
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  help us carry your light.
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  May we never forget those we lost. May we honor them, not only with our words
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  today, but the way we treat one another tomorrow.
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  Comfort those who mourn protect those who serve and grant peace to our nation
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  and to our world in Jesus name we pray Amen,
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  Today, September 11th, 2026, we remember, we honor, and we'll never forget.
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  May God bless the families of those lost, our first responders,
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  our nation, and all those around the world who long for peace.
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  This has been a special edition of Half Faith Let It Begin. God bless you,
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  and God bless the United States of America.