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The Enterprise — Michael Koff

In remembrance: Two firefighters cross their hands while Reverend Matthew van Maastricht of the Altamont Reformed Church leads a prayer service after Friday’s solemn 9/11 ceremony. “We often think of a concept of love and peace as something passive …,” said the pastor. “But peace is not just the absence of violence. It is the presence of wholeness, of justice, of love.” He also led a prayer “for all who live in fear and uncertainty … For those on the front of the struggle against hate, we pray for protection … For our country, that You would help us be better than we have been and better than we are.”