{"id":13346,"date":"2011-09-12T04:49:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T09:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=13346"},"modified":"2011-09-13T04:37:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T09:37:53","slug":"county-remembers-911-anniversary-in-sundry-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/09\/12\/county-remembers-911-anniversary-in-sundry-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"County marks 9\/11’s 10th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

DAVE MOSIER\/<\/strong>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Van Wert Men's Chorus joins with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic to perform Thompson's "Testament of Freedom" during a 9\/11 concert held at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center. More photos of this and other 9\/11 events will be in this week. (Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was a day for prayer, for music, for tears and for laughter, as Van Wert County residents — and America — commemorated the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that took place September 11, 2001.<\/p>\n

A number of area fire departments held events honoring 9\/11 and the firefighters who gave their lives in an attempt to rescue people from the World Trade Center and Pentagon. As Van Wert Fire Chief Jim Steele noted, more firefighters were killed on 9\/11 than in any other single event in America\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

To honor those sacrifices, the city fire department held a 5K walk-run and an open house at the fire station on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Several volunteer fire departments joined together in Rockford for a fundraiser. Fire departments involved included Willshire, Ohio City, Rockford, Mendon, and Chattanooga, with most of the proceeds going to the departments to purchase new equipment. The departments also donated money raised as part of a 50\/50 drawing to the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation in memory of the 343 New York City Fire Department members who were killed while trying to rescue people at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.<\/p>\n

Van Wert Victory Church and First Friends Church also spearheaded a prayer and remembrance ceremony in front of the Courthouse on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

But the pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance of the day was the 9\/11 concert held at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center featuring the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, under Conductor Alexander Constantine, a 53-member Van Wert Men\u2019s Chorus and a number of soloists, including Van Wert tenor Jake Wilder.<\/p>\n

The concert was spectacular, with music both moving and rousing. Highlights of the concert included Wilder\u2019s renditions of \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner\u201d and \u201cEdelweiss\u201d from The Sound of Music<\/em>, and the Van Wert Men\u2019s Chorus\u2019 singing of Randall Thompson\u2019s \u201cTestament of Freedom\u201d and \u201cAmerican Salute.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tammie Huntington, a music professor at Indiana Wesleyan, also sang a moving rendition of the \u201cPie Jesu\u201d (Peeay Yayzu) from Gabriel Faur\u00e9\u2019s Requiem<\/em>, while the Fort Wayne Philharmonic was excellent in support of the singers and on their own performing \u201cFanfare for the Common Man\u201d by Aaron Copland, \u201cAdagio for Strings\u201d by Samuel Barber, an excellent version of Johann Sebastian Bach\u2019s \u201cToccata and Fugue in D Minor,\u201d Leonard Bernstein\u2019s Overture to Candide, the World War II anthem, \u201cBoogie Woogie Bugle Boy,\u201d featuring a trumpet solo by NPAC Executive Director Paul Hoverman, \u201cI am the American Flag\u201d by Beckel, and the \u201cArmed Forces Salute\u201d by Lowden.<\/p>\n

The regular program ended with a sing-a-long called \u201cSing Out America\u201d that included a number of traditional patriotic American tunes and an encore of John Philip Sousa\u2019s \u201cStars & Stripes Forever.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DAVE MOSIER\/independent editor It was a day for prayer, for music, for tears and for laughter, as Van Wert County residents — and America — commemorated the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that took place September 11, 2001. A number of area fire departments held events honoring 9\/11 and the firefighters who gave their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-05 07:20:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}