My recollection of 9/11 apart from the news on live TV was our normal 12:15 PM Daily Mass on that day, in my former parish in Augusta, The Church of the Most Holy Trinity, which normally would have about 50 to 90 people having a full church of about 500 and a mix of Catholics and Protestants. We sang as the recessional of the Mass "O Beautiful" and the last verse had everyone in tears:
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam,
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self control,
Thy liberty in law.
We opened the front doors of the swung wide open for people to know that the Church was open for any and everyone to come and pray and come and pray they did and any and everyone!
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