Saratoga Springs 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony 

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Several hundred people attended Saratoga Springs’ 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony, staged on a blue-sky Wednesday morning at High Rock Park. 

The park has since 2012 served as the location for the city’s annual ceremony and serves as the permanent site of the 25-foot-tall sculpture created from 9/11 steel by artists John van Alstine and Noah Savett. 

“We will always mark this horrific day,” said Saratoga Springs Mayor John Safford, reciting the numbers counted of those who were killed, and the numbers immeasurable of the families affected, and humans physically and emotionally distressed in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.  

“But being here today gives us hope, a future where we can look forward, to peace, sometimes through strength, sometimes through love, but we will continue to have hope for the future,” Mayor Safford said. 

The event included several speakers and presentations, military and religious traditions, and was highlighted by local musician Jeff Brisbin’s poignant rendition of Bruce Springsteen’s “You’re Missing,” providing a moment that was every part heartbreaking as it was beautiful.