The attacks on the United States 11 years ago changed the face of America, Georgia Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle said Tuesday morning in a prayer breakfast for local law enforcement.Cagle gave the keynote address at the annual event, held at Flat Creek Baptist Church, on the 11th anniversary of terrorist attacks that killed almost 3,000 people in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania, led to two wars and changed the nation’s approach to national security.It also renewed nationwide honor for firefighters and local law enforcement, a theme that rang true at Tuesday’s breakfast and at a later event at a Gainesville fire station.Hall County Sheriff Steve Cronic said those involved in the rescue attempts in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, did not lose their lives but rather “gave their lives.”Cagle also expressed his admiration for the local community’s public safety employees, saying they put on their uniforms each day “not knowing what might be behind that door.”“You do it, because you want to make your community safer,” Cagle said. “All of you in law enforcement, you have to be courageous, you have to have character, you have to have conviction to do your job.”Tuesday was the last annual prayer breakfast of Cronic’s 12-year tenure as sheriff.