All Saints School

Twenty years this month. Were you a student of ours on that Tuesday morning? To note the milestone, we asked an alumni parent what it was like to arrive at school that day with her new Kindergartner:

"We started school late and in the church that morning because by then news of the morning attacks had reached Portland from New York," she said.

"I remember feeling so fortunate that we were at All Saints and could come together like that as a community during such a scary time. We prayed for all of the people and their families who were experiencing things firsthand.

"Our baby is 25 now, but whenever I hear people mention starting Kindergarten I think of that day -- and how being at All Saints helped all the kids feel safe and loved on such a heavy, uncertain day."

Image is of "Tribute in Light" first presented in the skies above Manhattan six months after 9/11 and then every year thereafter, from dusk to dawn.

Each year it's visible from up to 60 miles away and stretches four miles into the sky, symbolizing the brightness of too many lives taken far too soon.

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