9/11 took disaster relief to new level

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South Carolina disaster relief coordinator Cliff Satterwhite encourages and ministers to two men in New York City’s Union Square, a site for victim memorials after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Satterwhite coordinated the efforts of volunteer chaplains during the 9/11 response.

ALPHARETTA (BP) — Imagine India’s Yamuna River without the Taj Mahal. Paris without the Eiffel Tower. The loss of the World Trade Center’s twin towers left a similarly unimaginable hole in the American landscape and psyche.

Sept. 11, 2001’s terrorist assaults on the United States changed more than the lower Manhattan skyline. The unprecedented attacks that ended so tragically in New York City, Washington, D.C., and rural Pennsylvania also forever changed the face of Southern Baptist Disaster Relief.

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