09/11/2026
🇺🇸 Never Forget — September 11, 2001 🇺🇸
Today, we pause to remember a day that changed our nation forever.
Twenty-five years ago, our country experienced the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history. In just over two hours, nearly 3,000 innocent lives were lost after four commercial airplanes were hijacked by al-Qaeda terrorists. Two were flown into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, one struck the Pentagon, and a fourth—believed to have been headed toward the U.S. Capitol—crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after passengers and crew courageously fought back.
Behind the number 2,977 are individual lives, families, and stories.
A 2-year-old girl aboard Flight 175 died alongside her parents while they were traveling to Disneyland. An 85-year-old man aboard Flight 11 died beside his wife while traveling to her son's wedding. Eight children were among those killed, including three 11-year-old students aboard Flight 77 who were traveling with their teachers on an educational trip. Three college students were among those who lost their lives aboard Flight 93.
They were children, parents, grandparents, husbands, wives, sons, daughters, friends, coworkers, first responders, service members, and ordinary Americans simply going about their lives on an ordinary Tuesday morning.
In the hours and days that followed September 11, 2001, our nation stood together. We watched together. We mourned together. We prayed together, supported one another, and helped our neighbors. In the face of unimaginable tragedy, differences that so often divided us seemed insignificant. Across races, political beliefs, backgrounds, and religions, Americans came together with a shared sense of grief, unity, resilience, and purpose.
And together, we made a promise:
Never Forget.
Twenty-five years later, Rally Point Appalachia remembers and honors every life taken that day, the first responders who ran toward danger when others were running away, the survivors who carried the scars forward, and the families who have lived with an empty place at their tables ever since.
We also honor the generations of American service members who answered the call in the years that followed—many of whom sacrificed their health, their futures, and ultimately their lives in service to our country.
Today, may we not only remember what happened on September 11, 2001, but also remember September 12—when, for a moment, we were not defined by what divided us, but united by what we shared.
Twenty-five years later, we still remember. We still honor. And we will Never Forget. 🇺🇸
