09/11/2026
Twenty-Five Years Later, They Still Came
This morning, I am sitting in the parking lot of the Scottish Rite, waiting for our 9/11 memorial service to begin.
It is a bright, beautiful morning—and the Brothers just keep coming.
One by one, they leave their cars and make their way toward the building. Twenty-five years have passed since our nation was attacked, yet that day still touches the hearts and souls of those who remember.
These men could have spent this morning elsewhere. Instead, they chose to set aside a portion of their day to remember the innocent lives taken, the heroes who ran toward danger, and all those who have carried the cost ever since.
Perhaps that is part of the work of an Everyday Mason: to remember when the world begins to forget, to honor sacrifice through our presence, and to help those who came afterward understand why that morning still matters.
Patriotism is not always loud. Sometimes it looks like an early-morning drive, a quiet gathering, a bowed head, and an empty place in our hearts reserved for people we may never have known.
Twenty-five years have passed.
And still, the Brothers came.
We will never forget.
