Mason's Police and Fire Departments led a ceremony Friday, Sept. 11, at the city's 9/11 Memorial, marking 25 years since the attacks.

Nearly 3,000 people died on Sept. 11, 2001, including two with ties to the Mason community. Officers and firefighters gathered at the memorial inside the Mason Municipal Center and led moments of silence corresponding with the times each plane struck. The city said in a post on X that the event honored those who lost their lives and those who stepped up to serve during and after the attacks.

Faith establishments across Mason also opened their doors Friday in connection with the anniversary, according to a city post on X the day before.

The memorial, unveiled Sept. 12, 2016, sits in the atrium of the Municipal Center. It contains a section of steel beam from the World Trade Center and bears the names of two Mason-area residents killed that day: Wendy Ruth Faulkner and Robert David Peraza.

Faulkner was a vice president with Aon Corporation attending a business meeting on the 104th floor of the South Tower. Her husband, Lynn Faulkner, still lives in Mason and flies a bright red 9/11 memorial flag outside his home every day. The flag depicts two towers framed by a pentagon, according to a Cincinnati Enquirer profile published Sept. 9.

"Everyone said, 'never forget, never forget, never forget.' But, you know, people forgot," Lynn Faulkner told the Enquirer in that Sept. 9 profile.

Peraza worked as a bond trader for Cantor Fitzgerald in the North Tower. He had lived with his parents, Bob and Sue Peraza, in Mason for about a year before moving to New York, FOX19 reported in a Sept. 8 story. His brother Neil Peraza told the station he still speaks about Rob in the present tense and that the family works to keep his memory alive.

The city posted four photographs from Friday's ceremony to its official X account that afternoon. The memorial is open to the public year-round in the Municipal Center atrium at 6000 Mason-Montgomery Road.

Lynn Faulkner's flag still flies.