A Stair Climb and Day to Never Forget
The weather — first clear, then fog — mirrored Ground Zero for Greenbelt's first 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb.
It was eerily like 9/11. The morning started out just as clear and then a sudden fog draped the air with a smoky shroud. Even people who were not at Ground Zero in New York City on that day of tragedy noticed it. Laura Kressler, medical and operational advisor to Greenbelt's Animal Shelter and a veterinarian at Lynn Animal Hospital, had spent weeks at Ground Zero treating search and rescue dogs. Sunday morning's weather took her on a massive flashback to a place she never wants to go back to, but can't get out of her mind — especially at the anniversary time each year. So, on Sept. 11, 2011, 10 years after terrorists crashed planes into the World Trade Center towers, she came to Greenbelt's first 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb to watch …
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