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Holmen Church Remembers 9/11 Victims With Signs

HOLMEN, Wisconsin (WXOW) – The Halfway Creek Lutheran Church held a ceremony in remembrance of those that fell victims to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington D.C.

The church's pastor, Jean Pagliaro, said parishioners were encouraged to write messages of "grace, hope and love" on large cardboard signs, which they then held up to display on the road directly in front of their church for 11 minutes after their service concluded.

Pagliaro said it was all in the hope that passers-by who read the signs would be touched by their messages.

"We are a people of resurrection and we're not defined by the destruction of those attacks," Pagliaro said. "We will continue to say the words of grace, and faith and hope over and over again."