{"id":1056397,"date":"2021-09-12T15:37:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T20:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1056397"},"modified":"2021-09-13T15:37:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T20:37:09","slug":"east-texans-unite-in-downtown-tyler-to-remember-9-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1056397","title":{"rendered":"East Texans unite in downtown Tyler to remember 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1056398\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/09\/nine11-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Sept. 11, is a day that brings people of the United States together. All the things that usually divide don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t matter. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Still great sadness comes back from 20 years ago, but the day after the day, there was such a unified spirit,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Louie Gohmert, U.S. Representative said. That spirit strengthened in downtown Tyler as East Texas first responders and community members united for the people who died and for those who went above and beyond the call of duty, as reported by our news partner KETK. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153When I got there the thing that I remember most getting there where the rubble was and everything was feeling helpless,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Larry Smith with the Smith County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office said.<!--more--> Community leaders said they hope that those who are too young to remember 9\/11 will be able to learn so they won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t forget. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s important,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Jimmy Toler, the Tyler Police Chief said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m glad the parents and family members bring them out here as we continue that remembrance.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 9\/11 is a time to remember, pray and give thanks as we stand as one people, one family, on America. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153They thought they would bring us down in these 20 years but here we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll stand,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Gohmert said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Sept. 11, is a day that brings people of the United States together. All the things that usually divide don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t matter. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Still great sadness comes back from 20 years ago, but the day after the day, there was such a unified spirit,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Louie Gohmert, U.S. Representative said. That spirit strengthened in downtown Tyler &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1056397\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">East Texans unite in downtown Tyler to remember 9\/11<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1056400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/09\/nine11-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"East Texans unite in downtown Tyler to remember 9\/11","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 20:44:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/09\/nine11-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"East Texans unite in downtown Tyler to remember 9\/11","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1056397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1056399,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056397\/revisions\/1056399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1056400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1056397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1056397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1056397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}