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Video: Lake Catholic Thanks Police, Firefighters at 9/11 Ceremony
Lake Catholic High School used its 10th annual Sept. 11 prayer ceremony to thank the police officers and firefighters who serve as first responders in times of crisis
Police officers and firefighters from all around Northeast Ohio joined students Friday morning at the high school for a prayer ceremony commemorating the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11.
The students thanked the men and women of the myriad departments for their service, as well as those from across the country.
The students also took time to remember the tragedy that Lake Catholic Senior Class President Mike Whalen said "defined their generation."
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As part of the remembrance, the students participated in a national program called "For 9/11, I Will."
Each student offered to make a sacrifice or better themselves in honor of those who died 10 years ago. Their promises ranged from charitable donations to a student who swore to give her veteran mother a hug.
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Michele Bernot, the campus minister, ended the ceremony by reading an email she received from a friend just a couple of days after the World Trade Center fell.
"If times of great joy united us as much as times of great tragedy, and as many people acted out of love as do in hate, then this world would truly be unrecognizable from the mess I'm looking at now," she said.
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