In these troubling times where the news headlines speak of pandemic fears, discord, civil disobedience, protest, and polarization of our fellow citizens. We ask for a simple remembrance of those who perished at the hands of evil. When reflecting on the events of 9-11 – take time to notice the faces of the first responders. You will see grim determination and the desire to help other – no matter the cost. Some things never change. The NLCRPD team asks that you consider the words often quoted below:

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

― Theodore Roosevelt