00:00The scale of the loss and the devastation that day was unfathomable, and so too was the heroism that we
00:06witnessed in response.
00:08Preserving that history also means preserving its moral clarity.
00:13The men who attacked this city were terrorists.
00:16The men and women who ran into the towers to save innocent lives were heroes.
00:23Twenty-five years cannot be allowed to blur that distinction and shame on those who do.
00:30The courage we remember from September 11th was not confined to a single morning.
00:35It was there in the members who moved toward the World Trade Center while thousands of people were desperately trying
00:41to escape.
00:42It remained in those who returned to Ground Zero afterward, even while they were grieving friends and colleagues of their
00:49own.
00:49They kept working while families waited for answers, and a devastated city depended on them.
00:55That service came at a terrible cost, and today these names ask something of us in return.
01:02They ask us to remember these men and women as more than names or numbers from one of the darkest
01:08chapters in our city's history,
01:10to preserve who they were and the extraordinary standard of service they left to those who followed them.
01:17Thank you very much.
