September 11 events to mark the 7th anniversary of 9/11 terrorist attacks
On the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist acts, events big and small are planned nationwide to remember the nearly 3,000 people who were killed in the attacks.
Families of September 11 have a comprehensive list of events taking place today throughout the United States. Here are some events coming up today:
New York: A ceremony at Ground Zero will be held from 8 a.m. to noon at Zuccotti Park, at Liberty and Church streets near the site of the World Trade Center. The names of all victims will be read at this ceremony. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Rudy Giuliani, who was mayor at the time of the attacks, and other officials will attend.
Barack Obama and John McCain today will take a break from campaigning to visit Ground Zero in New York in the afternoon, according to the group MyGoodDeed.org, a nonprofit organization founded by families and friends of 9/11 victims.
This evening the two candidates will stay in New York to participate in a Presidential Forum on Service, which is part of a two-day ServiceNation summit organized by the group, which describes itself as a campaign to “call on the next president and Congress, leaders form all sectors of society, and our fellow Americans to create a new era of service and civic engagement in America…”
Washington, D.C.: President Bush this morning will preside over a dedication ceremony for the Pentagon 9/11 memorial that features 184 steel-and-granite benches, each engraved with a victim’s name. The event marks the crashing of a plane by terrorists into the west side of the Pentagon.
Shanksville, Pennsylvania: A morning ceremony remembers the 40 who died aboard Flight 93, which went down in western Pennsylvania. Many events at this site are planned throughout the day, including the reading of the names of victims and laying of wreaths.
San Diego: Reading of victims’ names and tolling of bells today will mark 9/11, starting at 2:30 p.m. on the deck of the USS Midway (910 N. Harbor Drive).
Fullerton plans a 30-minute tribute at 6:30 p.m. in the downtown plaza that includes the Fullerton Fire Department presenting a display in honor of the 343 New York firefighters killed in the attacks.
Los Angeles: Two ceremonies are planned, one at 7 a.m. at the Fire Department Museum and Fallen Firefighter Memorial (1355 N. Cahuenga Blvd., Hollywood); one at 10 a.m. at the Fire Department Training Center (1700 Stadium Way in Elysian Park), with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on hand to mark the event.
– Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times staff writer
[Photo: Daniel P. Derella / AP: Kasia Hrecka, center, takes a photograph of her friend Anna Sereda, left, as they and others take photographs of the "Tribute in Light," a tribute to the victims of the World Trade Center terrorist attacks that light up the sky above lower Manhattan with the Brooklyn Bridge in the foreground in this view from the Brooklyn borough of New York, Monday, Sept. 11, 2006.]
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September 11th, 2008 at 5:56 am
September the eleventh
Who can forget?
That fateful day
That life as we all knew it
Was taken away
As we kissed our loved ones good-bye
And hurried to our cars
With no idea of the evil in the sky
From a land so very far
As we hit the copy machine for errors
As we said hello to our friends
There came nineteen agents of terror
A sinister plot would begin
They pretended be like us
As they boarded our planes
Though hatred of everything about us
Like cancer, infested their brains
As we did what Americans do!
Work hard for what we love
Four planes with passengers and crews
Were high-jacked up above
As spouses entered the twin towers
As someone’s child played in the daycare
With fuel, speed, and great power
Came a jet screaming through the air
First one tower and then the other
As we watched in shock and dismay
Our mothers, sisters, brothers
In an instant were taken away
Then a third plane hit the Pentagon
As this attack on our country kept going
On our own soil this attack had begun
All with out us even knowing
But a fourth strike would not be
Because of some very brave souls
That marched down the isle of flight 93
To the battle cry, “Let’s Roll”
Though they too lost their lives
We take solace in this one fact
Because of them no one in the capital lost their lives
As a result of this terrorist attack
So we remember the three thousand souls that went away
And we pray as they look down from heaven
That we never experience a day like that day
September the eleventh
Copyright © 2008 Eugene J. Bell
September 11th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Are we all so sure that all the evil was in the sky? I can’t believe mr bush (uncapitalized on purpose) was allowed anywhere near the ceremony.
September 13th, 2008 at 11:20 am
I would just like to say that the year that 9/11 happened I had just arrived home from a holiday in scotland, I watched the news all day and could not stop thinking of the loss of lives. I lost a loved one but not in the events off that day so even though I do not feel how all the mourners feel about that day I know how a great loss feels.9/11 effected me very deeply every year I think about the events and think of the loss but I also think of the survivers I also think of the fallin angels that day who had decide which way to die and what would have been going through there minds.Im a single mom and I cant even imagine having to decide which way for my daughter to remember me, but we like to think of them as being angels falling to heaven.I wish all who were involved in 9/11 all my love and prayers.(footsteps in the sand)