Members of the Orange Community Master Chorale sing during a ceremony to honor the victims of Sept. 11, 2001, in the East Room of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda. It was the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes speaks to an audience gathered in the East Room of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda on the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11. The ceremony honored the victims of Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Orange County Fire Authority Engineer Brandon Norris, left, rings a bell as OCFA Fire Captain Mike Varker, right, salutes during a ceremony to honor the victims of Sept. 11, 2001, in the East Room of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda. It was the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes speaks to an audience gathered in the East Room of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda on the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11. The ceremony honored the victims of Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Orange County Fire Authority Chief Brian Fennessy speaks to an audience gathered in the East Room of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda on the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11. The ceremony honored the victims of Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Members of the Orange Community Master Chorale sing during a ceremony to honor the victims of Sept. 11, 2001, in the East Room of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda. It was the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Retired NYPD Officer Marc Manfro, a first responder in New York City on 9/11, speaks to an audience gathered in the East Room of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda on the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11. The ceremony honored the victims of Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
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Members of the Orange Community Master Chorale sing during a ceremony to honor the victims of Sept. 11, 2001, in the East Room of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda. It was the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)
In what has become a tradition at the Nixon Presidential Library & Museum, community members gathered Wednesday to remember those who were killed in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The sacrifice and heroism of the first responders who ran toward the danger that day were also remembered by the chiefs of Orange County’s public safety agencies and in a ringing of the bell ceremony.
Marc Manfro, who is a retired officer of the New York Police Department on duty that day 23 years ago, spoke to the gathered crowd along with OC Sheriff Don Barnes and OC Fire Authority Chief Brian Fennessy.
