First responders honored at Marble Falls 9/11 ceremony
FROM STAFF REPORTS
MARBLE FALLS — Community leaders honored first responders from fire, police and EMS agencies in the Highland Lakes on Sept. 11 during the Patriot Awards 9/11 Memorial Ceremony at Lakeside Park.
The recipients of the Patriot Award, given by the Rotary Club of Marble Falls, for outstanding service were among nine nominees from Marble Falls, Horseshoe Bay, Granite Shoals and Spicewood agencies.
They were Horseshoe Bay police officer Joe Lorette, Marble Falls Area EMS field training officer Sgt. Vaughn Hamilton, Marble Falls police officer Dorian Turner and Horseshoe Bay Fire Department Assistant Fire Chief Stephanie Black.
The event, attended by dozens of residents and community leaders, commemorates the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack when airliners slammed into the World Trade Center towers in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and a field in Pennsylvania.
In New York, firefighters, police and EMS personnel ran toward the devastation to rescue those injured and trapped. Many of them, along with the innocent victims in the towers and the planes, paid with their lives.
The 13th annual event in Marble Falls included an invocation, the Pledge of Allegiance, a presentation of the colors, the playing of “Taps,” recognition of local veterans from the Marble Falls VFW Post 10376 and a performance by the Marble Falls Middle School choir, which led the audience in the singing of the “National Anthem.”
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