{"id":220054,"date":"2025-09-12T05:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T05:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/220054\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T05:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T05:23:09","slug":"san-antonio-veterans-gather-to-remember-9-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/220054\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio veterans gather to remember 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN ANTONIO<\/strong> \u2013 The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 76<\/a> in San Antonio gathered to honor the lives lost on 9\/11. <\/p>\n

Thursday marked 24 years since the deadly terror attacks<\/a> killed nearly 3,000 people and shocked the nation. This year, the VFW 76 remembered the event near the Gold Star Families Memorial Monument. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt can be a very emotional day,\u201d said John Roberts, senior vice commander of VFW Post 76. \u201c(This ceremony) is to give everybody a little bit of a history lesson on what happened that day … and pay our respects.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roberts recalled that 9\/11 is the reason he went to serve in Iraq. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe even play taps at the end,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cThinking of all the lives lost … and we went to war in Iraq and lost a lot of military there. This day is the reason I went to Iraq, so everything changed when this day happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

Several veterans gathered and shared their memories of 9\/11 to KSAT. <\/p>\n

William Smith is a former San Antonio police instructor. He was teaching at the police academy during the attack. <\/p>\n

\u201cI saw the TV when the first plane crashed,\u201d Smith said. \u201cWhen I saw the second plane crash, I knew as an 11-year active-duty military veteran and a Green Beret and then being in the reserves that we\u2019re at war. And I let the cadets know, times have changed, and it\u2019s been a big impact.\u201d <\/p>\n

Candy Martin, a combat veteran and member of VFW Post 76, said she lost her only son in Iraq in 2007. <\/p>\n

\u201cI served in Iraq from 2005 to 2006,\u201d Martin said. \u201cPatriot Day really means a lot to me, because not everybody really gets what all of this is about.\u201d<\/p>\n

The VFW has ceremonies for remembrance days throughout the year to educate the public and remind them to never forget the lives lost.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn one hand, we honor the dead, but in honoring the dead we need to acknowledge that the dead want us to live,\u201d said Corey Schultz, an Army veteran. \u201cI\u2019ve struggled many years with survivor guilt and PTSD, and so my message, if I have any message, is there\u2019s hope. There\u2019s hope in getting over bad things that happen to you out of the clear blue sky.”<\/p>\n

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