PORT TOWNSEND — Edel Sokol said her father always told her that oceans on both sides of the continent would keep North America safe.
Terrorists shook that belief on Sept. 11, 2001, nearly 25 years after Sokol moved to the United States.
Her East Prussian family packed up and moved to Canada in 1957.
“My father immigrated to this continent to get away from war,” she said.
“When Sept. 11 happened, it made me angry, and continues to do so,” she said Monday.
“I don’t dwell on it, but it impacts me and it impacts everyone daily if you fly, take the ferry — and the economy.”
As a tribute to those who lost their lives and continue to serve the country, Sokol organized a memorial service last year and will do so again Thursday, on the second anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The service begins at 5 p.m. at the flagpole behind the Port of Port Townsend administrative office on Benedict Street, across the street from the Harborside Inn.
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The rest of the story appears in Tuesday’s Peninsula Daily News Jefferson County edition.
