NORTH LOGAN — A major exhibit that begins on Wednesday will add to the commemoration of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001.
The 9/11 Project exhibit is sponsored by the Major Brent Taylor Foundation and will be on display from Wednesday, September 11th through Saturday, September 14th at the Hansen Family Sports Complex, located at 220 East 2850 North, in North Logan.
On a recent KVNU For the People program, Jennie Taylor from the foundation said they did the first one for the 20th anniversary and the support locally from Cache County and County Executive David Zook has been tremendous.
“We went home from the first meeting with, ‘hey, should we do this?’ And all of us, we’re Weber County folk, we just could not stop talking about what a community, and it’s been that way ever since. Month after month, planning after planning, day after day, we love what’s happening here in Cache Valley,” she explained.
Taylor said it’s important for the new generation to learn about what happened.
“We could pass a microphone around a room of anybody 30-ish plus, ‘where were you, what do you remember, describe it to me, it was a Tuesday morning.’ I often say that moment for me and for those of us of that age will live in our minds the same way, Dec. 7th, 1941 did for my grandfather’s generation.
“The same way Neil Armstrong walking on the moon for my mother’s generation, John F. Kennedy getting shot. There are certain moments in American history and world history that stand out and define us as a people.”
Zook was also on the program and said that, at the time, everybody said they would remember the event.
“And it wasn’t that we were never going to forgive, that we were always going to remember that anger, that’s not what it was about. What we promised to remember was the American spirit that we saw that day and then the days after of the people who stepped up to serve, the firefighters who rushed into their death, unfortunately, the citizens who volunteered, the mountains of donations that came in to help with the effort afterward,” Zook explained.
Volunteers are needed for set up and break down the exhibit, for parking, for the conducting of tours of the exhibit and more. Go to cachevalleyremembers.com for more information.