On America's day of trial and grief, I saw millions of people instinctively grab for a neighbor's hand and rally to the cause of one another. I come without explanations or solutions.
That leaves us worried about our nation and our future together. So much of our politics has become a naked appeal to anger, fear, and resentment. A malign force seems at work in our common life that turns every disagreement into an argument, and every argument into a clash of cultures. When it comes to the unity of America, those days seem distant from our own. “In the weeks and months following the 9/11 attacks, I was proud to lead an amazing, resilient, united people. While a given person's office location at the WTC does not definitively indicate where that individual died that morning or whether he or she could have evacuated, these data strongly suggest that the evacuation was a success for civilians below the impact zone.” Of this number, 1,942 or 94.64 percent either worked or were supposed to attend a meeting at or above the respective impact zones of the Twin Towers only 110, or 5.36 percent of those who died, worked below the impact zone. Out of this total number of fatalities, we can account for the workplace location of 2,052 individuals, or 95.35 percent. At most 2,152 individual died in the WTC complex who were not 1) fire or police first responders, 2) security or fire safety personnel of the WTC or individual companies, 3) volunteer civilians who ran to the WTC after the planes' impact to help others or, 4) on the two planes that crashed into the Twin Towers. to honor the innocent victims who perished as a result of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.“The National Institute of Standards and Technology has provided a preliminary estimation that between 16,400 and 18,800 civilians were in the WTC complex as of 8:46 am on September 11.
In 2009, a presidential proclamation declared that Patriot Day is also a "National Day of Service." The proclamation calls on Americans to "participate in community service in honor of those our Nation lost, to observe this day with other ceremonies and activities, including remembrance services. government entities and interested organizations and individuals display the flag of the United States at half staff on Patriot Day and that the people of the United States observe a moment of silence in honor of the individuals who lost their lives as a result of the Septemterrorist attacks.īelow are links to liturgical resources for the observance of Patriot Day, bishops' statements and other materials for reading and reflection. In October 2001, the United States Congress passed a joint resolution designating that every September 11th be observed as "Patriot Day." The resolution requests that U.S.
To mark the tenth anniversary of 9/11 in 2011, we gathered reflections and remembrances from clergy who ministered to victims and their families, and others who were impacted by the tragedy. Now they also remind us of September 11, 2001, the date of the worst terrorist attack on the United States of America and one of the deadliest days ever on American soil. For years, those numbers simply meant a call for help.
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