The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 76 in San Antonio gathered to honor the lives lost on 9/11.

Thursday marked 24 years since the deadly terror attacks killed nearly 3,000 people and shocked the nation. This year, the VFW 76 remembered the event near the Gold Star Families Memorial Monument.

“It can be a very emotional day,” said John Roberts, senior vice commander of VFW Post 76. “(This ceremony) is to give everybody a little bit of a history lesson on what happened that day ... and pay our respects.”

Roberts recalled that 9/11 is the reason he went to serve in Iraq.

“We even play taps at the end,” Roberts said. “Thinking of all the lives lost ... and we went to war in Iraq and lost a lot of military there. This day is the reason I went to Iraq, so everything changed when this da

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