9/11 Memorials

[emshighway]

9/11 Memorial Service
Tobay Beach
Ocean Parkway
east of Jones Beach, off Wantagh Parkway, Massapequa, NY

Tribute and remembrance ceremony for the victims of September 11 at the Town of Oyster Bay's memorial monument
When:
Sep. 10: 2 p.m.

Price: free
Information: 516-797-7900

[hiss srq]

I will be at the one in Booker Elem. School down here where Mr. Card told Pres. Bush initially of the events .

[LGA777]

Here is I think a fitting tribute being held by US Employees in PHX and Tempe Headquarters.

JOIN THE RIBBON OF HONOR


In honor of the five-year anniversary of Sept. 11, employees are invited to join the Human Ribbon of Honor at PHX. Employees wishing to participate should report to Gate A-4 and Gate A-19 at PHX. You will need an employee ID to get through Security, and will be escorted from the gates to the ramp by US Airways employees. After a brief tribute, the employees will light their night wands to illuminate the ribbon, which signifies the light of hope, and as a remembrance of the victims of Sept. 11. The event is scheduled to start at 7:45 p.m.

I wish I could participate.

LGA777

[Nonstop2AUH]

Should be interesting at the school down there. Are they going to do 7 minutes of silence or are they reading "My Pet Goat?" If you ask me, the best way to remember 9/11 is to drop the symbolism and partisanship and focus on making things safer, and to recognize that aviation is not the only potential target. Took some clients last night on a dinner cruise that, ironically, passes the WTC site and to my surprise there was no security inspection for the boat whatsoever, despite the fact that it carries some 300 people or so around NY harbor...

[emshighway]

Have to agree with you. We are suppose to be multi-modal but have been stuck on aviation. There have been some "pilot programs" for rails and cruise ships but nothing wide spread.

[Nonstop2AUH]

On 9/11 please also remember the victims of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, mostly PA employees if I remember correctly. I was working there at the time and self-evacuated at my own initiative from the 63rd floor as the truck bomb knocked out the building's communications system. After this event, the building managers and corporate tenants like my employer were quite sure that "all possible was being done" to make the towers safe. They began checking the IDs of visitors, they closed the underground garage to the public, and improved lighting in the stairwells. However, they had only considered known prior scenarios in doing so and lacked the vision to think in the frighteningly creative ways that terrorists can and do. We were quite lucky in '93, only a few casualties, but today I see some of the same complacency and lack of vision that was expressed by the officials after that awful event. We owe it to the victims of 9/11 and other terror attacks like the '93 WTC bombing to secure not just aviation, but also high rise office buildings, stadiums, mass transit systems, shopping malls, and anyplace else there is a high concentration of people in a confined space. The Israelis have largely figured out ways to do this efficiently, and we should copy their best practices.