Firefighters and the wife and daughter of a Sept. 11, 2001, victim commemorated the anniversary of the attacks in ceremonies Saturday at the Broomfield 9/11 memorial.
A North Metro Fire Rescue honor guard including a firefighter holding a firefighter’s axe stood at attention while three bells were tolled, recalling attacks on the World Trade Center twin towers, the Pentagon, and Flight 93 in Pennsylvania.
Firefighters presented a flag to Joshua Miller, 30, on behalf of his friend Deborah Borza, whose daughter Deora Bodley, 20, was killed when Flight 93 crashed near Shanksville, Pa.
Bodley, a psychology major at Santa Clara University, wanted to help kids whose parents were divorced. Miller said he will send the flag to Borza.
“Every year it’s my day to remember what we lost,” Miller said. On that day his sense of security was permanently marred, he said.
Cathy Faughnan of Lafayette said her husband Christopher, a stockbroker, was on the 104th floor of the north tower when it was struck by a passenger airliner.
“It was terrible,” Faughnan said. “At first I thought he might be OK. I quickly realized that wasn’t so.”
Faughnan, who attended the Broomfield ceremony with her eldest daughter Juliet, said she appreciates the beautiful memorial that is a permanent physical remembrance of those who lost their lives that day.
Kirk Mitchell: 303-954-1206 or kmitchell@denverpost.com
