Two months from today Woodstock fire and emergency responders — Fire Department, Emergency Medical Personnel and Law Enforcement — are planning to mark the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorism attacks in New York City with a community breakfast and quiet walk.
Woodstock’s Fire and Ambulance Chief L.D. Sutherland, Jr. says the event will take place at the Masonic Temple this coming September 11th, followed by a quiet community walk to the Village Green which will coincide with a national moment of mourning and remembrance for the thousands of lives lost on that day and to honor those brothers and sisters who served responding to the tragic national event. It’s hoped that all of Woodstock’s church bells will ring out at the designated moment as the Woodstock community gathers quietly on the Village Green.
The time of the national moment of mourning is still to be determined. However, the Associated Press reports that last week Sen. Frank Lautenberg introduced a Senate resolution making that moment 1:00pm on Sept 11th, 2011:
Associated Press
TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey’s U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (LOW’-tuhn-burg) has introduced in Congress a measure calling for a nationwide moment of remembrance on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
Fellow senators from New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Virginia joined the Democrat as co-sponsors of the resolution.
The resolution was introduced Thursday in Washington, D.C. It calls on Americans to come together at 1 p.m. Eastern time on Sept. 11 for “a minute of reflection and ringing of bells and sounding of sirens across the country.”
Lautenberg says the occasion would be “a striking symbol of American solidarity.”
Nearly 3,000 lives were lost at New York’s World Trade Center, at the Pentagon and in the crash of a hijacked airliner in Shanksville, Pa.
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Woodstock Early Bird will keep you apprised of further details on the planned gathering.
Julia Carlisle
Woodstock Early Bird 