Will Joe Biden honor 9/11 remembrance poems and victims as Obama hosts memorial?
Cabinet Secretaries to Participate in September 11 National Day of Service and Remembrance Administration officials join volunteers across nation in remembering 9/11 by serving others (Washington D.C.) – On September 11, more than a dozen Cabinet secretaries and senior administration officials will commemorate the heroism of those who lost their lives on September 11th, 2001, and remember their spirit of sacrifice by engaging in service and volunteerism as part of the first officially recognized September 11 National Day of Service and Remembrance. Administration officials will prepare meals at food banks and shelters, paint homes, support vaccination efforts, read to students, and carry out other projects, joining volunteers across the nation in marking the eighth anniversary of the terror attacks by serving their neighbors and communities. The September 11 National Day of Service and Remembrance is the culmination of a seven-year effort started by 9/11 family members and support grou
Vice President Joe Biden led past and present area governors and mayors of New York City as well as relatives and friends honoring 2,752 people who perished in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. New York’s eighth anniversary observance paid tribute to the volunteer spirit of hundreds of emergency responders and individuals who helped rescue thousands from the towers and then aided in the recovery of the dead from the burning ruins. More than 400 relief workers died, including 343 firefighters and 60 police officers from New York City and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. “Their compassion and heroic acts are etched into this city’s history,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg said of the emergency service workers and volunteers who rushed into the buildings. “Each act was a link in a continuous chain that kept us from falling into despair.” The names of every known attack victim were called out by 115 pairs of readers. The readers were made up of one surv
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum intends to open a tree-landscaped memorial with the names of 2982 victims of the attacks, including a 1993 … Sources: http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_0_0_t&usg=AFQjCNG6_uiDP6DIuyWVGvm97dwVNFVhbQ&cid=1309580220&ei=zXuqSsjMMpuzmQe7l7qyAg&rt=SEARCH&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.
