Crime & Safety
Avon Police Officer Reads Original 9/11 Poem
Officer Susan Kassey wrote the poem in 2001. She shared it again at the Avon Volunteer Fire Department's 9/11 memorial service on the 12th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
After learning of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001, Avon Police Officer Susan Kassey wrote a 9/11 tribute poem that year in honor of the New York firefighters and police officers who responded to Ground Zero.
"It hits home so close. New York is right next to us," Kassey previously told Patch regarding 9/11. "It hit me in the heart."
She read the poem in 2002 in Hartford, backed by the Sweet Adelines on vocals, and did so again at the Avon Volunteer Fire Department's 9/11 memorial service Wednesday on the 12th anniversary. Kassey has done so every year since the 10th anniversary a couple years ago.
"We need to hold onto our kindred spirit/ and camaraderie,/ as we shall all meet again/ in eternity./It is the perfect September day always to mourn,/ 9/11/01," Kassey wrote in the last phrase of her poem.
Watch the full reading of the poem in the attached video.
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