9/11 Anniversary 2002
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September 03, 2003 |
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Events in New York City
for the one year anniversary of the September 11th attacks.
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Visiting Ground Zero
News: 6/7/02 - Tickets are no longer required at the viewing platform. The viewing
platform is now located on Broadway & Liberty Street.
News: 8/22/02 - NEW YORK (CNN)
-- An early marker of things to come at the World Trade Center
site was installed Wednesday -- the first section of a viewing
wall that will surround the site throughout years of projected
construction.
A 13-foot-high galvanized steel fence will
run along the east and south sides of the 16-acre site where the
110-story twin towers and four smaller buildings stood.
The fence will include fiberglass panels,
either with names from the list of more than 2,800 people killed
in the September 11 terrorist attacks or with descriptions of
the history of the site.
The sidewalks will be widened in the area
with most pedestrian traffic to accommodate visitors.
"On a typical day, 25,000 people will come to
this site to pay their respects, view the scene of a horrible
attack upon America, and reflect in their own way on the heroes
we lost on September 11," said New York Gov. George Pataki.
"They can see the names, reflect back, offer
a prayer, and in their own way, pay appropriate respects."
Parts of the 1,800-foot-long viewing wall
will be open to the public in time for next month's anniversary
of the attacks, and it is scheduled to be completed by the end
of the year.
Description of Events
The City of New
York will mark the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks
with a solemn morning ceremony at the World Trade Center site,
candlelight vigils in all five boroughs in the evening and
ending with the lighting of an eternal flame at sunset. Mayor
Bloomberg announced the planned events at this afternoon's press
conference as “simple and powerful.”
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The day will begin with separate
processions of bagpipers from the city’s uniformed services,
leaving from points in all five boroughs and converging on the
World Trade Center site, where various officials and victims’
families will also gather. A moment of silence, likely to be
observed in places all around the world as well, will be held at
8:46am, the time the first hijacked airliner struck.
The ceremony will last a total of 102
minutes, equaling the time it took before both towers fell.
During that time, New York Governor George Pataki will recite the
Gettysburg Address, and New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey will
read from the Declaration of Independence. In between, the names
of all 2,823 victims will be read by former Mayor Rudolph
Giuliani and some relatives and coworkers of those killed,
followed by the playing of “Taps.”
“Just as we will never forget September
11, 2001,” said Pataki, “we should all, on September 11, 2002,
take the time to pause and reflect, to give thanks to the
heroes, to pray for those we lost and to commit ourselves to
defending the freedoms and advancing the people’s interests in
this great city and this great state.”
The ground zero ceremony will conclude
at 10:29 a.m., with the ringing of bells across the city. Mr.
Pataki appealed to places of worship throughout the state to
open their doors early on Sept. 11 and to keep them open late
into the evening and to ring their bells to mark the day.
The victims’ family members, for the
first time, will also have the opportunity to descend the ramp
into the deep pit that is all that is left of the World Trade
Center. There, they will lay down roses that will later be
collected for use in the permanent memorial that will eventually
be erected on the site.
Later in the evening, candlelight
vigils and concerts will be held in major parks throughout the
city.
President George Bush and other world leaders will join the
observance at the World Trade Center site. In a sunset ceremony
at Battery Park, President Bush is scheduled to light an eternal
flame in memory of the victims.
The mayor said that city offices and
schools will open on September 11 and that he expected most
businesses would be as well. “We will carry on our
responsibilities to our families and our city,” said Bloomberg.
“However, this will not be an ordinary day for anyone in New
York.”
Besides the city’s official events,
many private remembrances are planned on September 11 by several
firehouses and companies that lost employees in the attack.
Cantor Fitzgerald, a bond firm that lost 658 employees, plans a
service in Central Park.
The first anniversary of the attacks
falls on a Wednesday, matinee day on Broadway, but at least a
dozen theaters have announced that they will be dark on Sept.
11.
Schedule
for 9/11/02
- 7am - 8am: 5 bagpipe & drum
processionals will march to Ground Zero from points in each of
the five boroughs
The processionals will be led by the pipe and drum corps of
five governmental agencies that performed heroically on 9/11
and in its aftermath: FDNY, Port Authority NY & NJ, NYPD, City
Corrections and Sanitation Departments converging at Ground
Zero just after 8am
- 8:46am: One minute of silence
citywide at the moment the first plane struck the north tower.
- 8:47am: Official Memorial Service
begins at Ground Zero.
- NY Governor Pataki to read The
Gettysburg Address.
- Former Mayor Guiliani to begin reciting
victims' names.
- Taps is played
- NJ Governor McGreevey reads excerpt from
the Declaration of Independence.
- 9:04am: After the second moment of
silence, victims' families - who will be lined along the West
Street side of the site - will start descending the ramp into
the site, moving in a continuous circle and leaving flowers or
other mementos.
- 10:29am: The service will conclude
with a moment of silence at the time of the tower's collapse.
(The south tower was the second to be hit at 9:04am and it
collapsed first at 10:05am.)
- 10:30am: Bells from all churches are
encouraged to ring
- 4:30pm: President Bush visits
Ground Zero to lay a wreath and console and thank police,
firemen, rescue workers and families after attending services at the Pentagon in
Washington and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
- 7:00pm: At the temporary memorial in
Battery Park, Mayor Bloomberg will read Franklin D.
Roosevelt's Four Freedoms. President Bush and world leaders
will be present. An eternal flame will be lit. The brief
ceremony, which will be broadcast live at each of the five
borough locations (see below), will end with the singing of "America
the Beautiful."
Candlelight
Vigils & Concerts
Candlelight vigils will be held in all five
boroughs from 7:15 to 9pm when President Bush's address
to the nation will be broadcast live. The 7pm lighting of the
Eternal Flame at "The Sphere" in Battery Park will be
broadcast at 7pm. We advise you to get to these locations
early:
- Manhattan Central Park, Great Lawn St.
Luke’s Chamber Ensemble and Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra
- The Bronx Van Cortlandt Park, Parade
Grounds The
Bronx Arts Ensemble
- Brooklyn Prospect Park, Bandshell The
Brooklyn Philharmonic & The Brooklyn Youth Chorus
- Queens Flushing Meadows-Corona Park,
Unisphere Promenade
Queens Symphony Orchestra
- Staten Island Snug Harbor Cultural
Center Staten Island Symphony
Additional observances will be held at most
houses of worship throughout NYC and other public venues.
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