Sunday service features 418 handcrafted crosses for first responders, and US Honor Flag
(ROYSE CITY, TX – September 1, 2015) The community is welcome at 10 a.m. Sunday, September 13 as Trinity Baptist Church of Royse City hosts an outdoor Remembrance Service to honor the fallen heroes of September 11, 2001.
During the service, a lighted display of 418 handcrafted crosses – to be erected on the church lawn by area Scouts and volunteers on Tuesday, September 8 – will serve as a tribute to the 418 first responders who lost their lives as a result of the attack on the World Trade Center.
The names of the 418 first responders will be read and a bell tolled for each by the Dallas Fire Retiree Final Honor Guard. The Colors will be presented by the Rockwall Police Honor Guard. And the U.S. Honor Flag – the flag that few over the rubble of 9/11 and is reported to have traveled over 7 million miles to funerals of military members killed in action and first responders killed in the line of duty – will be brought from atop the New Freedom Tower in New York City by state trooper escort to Royse City, and will be on display during this service.
There will be a 21 gun salute by Rockwall Police, TAPS will drift over the field as played by the Arlington Texas Police Bugler, and then finally, a bagpiper from the U.S. Army will walk among the honor field of crosses playing a traditional lament and Amazing Grace.
According to a recent press release, Trinity Baptist Church members organized and solicited donations of materials, paint and industrious Club Scouts and Boy Scouts to construct the 418 crosses, which were handcrafted by a carpenter in the church, painted by the Cub Scouts and church volunteers, and then assembled by two Boy Scout troops – one from St. Pius X Parish in the Casa View area of Dallas, and the second, the troop from Royse City United Methodist Church.
On September 8, the Cub and Boy Scouts and other local volunteers from Royse City will erect the crosses on the church lawn in a grid the size of a football field. Webber Construction donated the use of a light generator to light the display each night through September 13, when the Remembrance Service takes place. Then the display will be taken down and the crosses, each containing a nameplate of a fallen first responder, will be stored until next year, when the Methodist Church will do a similar service.
“We encourage everyone in the community to come and remember our national heroes and show those that tried to divide us, that they brought us together to honor those that lived Jesus Christ’s words: ‘Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.’ John15:13 NKJV,” wrote Laszlo Laky.
Trinity Baptist Royse City is located at 300 N. Erby Campbell at Highway 66, just west of downtown Royse City. The Sunday, September 13 service will offer lawn seating and a tent for those who are sensitive to the sun.
By Dawn Redig, Blue Ribbon News.
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