Commemoration to be Hosted at 9/ll Memorial

Hanif Houston
NationofChange / News Report
Published: Tuesday 11 September 2012
Commemoration to remember our lost ones hosted at 9/11 Memorial.
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Today, in honor of eleventh anniversary of 9/11, the city of New York will host a commemoration ceremony at the 9/11 memorial to remember the 3,000 people who lost their lives on that tragic day.

The memorial, unveiled last year, is located at the World Trade Center site, formerly the location of the Twin Towers. The centerpieces of the memorial are massive twin waterfalls and pools, each an acre wide, built into the foundations of the now vanished towers. Edging the two enormous bodies of water are two bronze tablets that contain the names of every person who perished in the terrorist attacks. A grove of swamp white oaks surrounds the memorial, creating an atmosphere of ponderous tranquility in the otherwise busy city.

The commemoration will occur at 8:30am, EST, at the World Trade Center site, located at 1 Albany St. New York, NY. The event will also be webcasted on the memorial website at http://www.911memorial.org/



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ABOUT Hanif Houston

Hanif is a reporting intern for NationofChange.org. He has previously worked as a Legislative Analyst in the California State Senate as a part of the prestigious Capital Fellows Program and covered local politics for the Sacramento Press.

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8 comments on "Commemoration to be Hosted at 9/ll Memorial"

Yesca_Again

September 11, 2012 2:18pm

Was watching the View this morning & the Republican blonde went into how she explained 911 to her 7 yr old. She started with 'some evil people attacked us... to take away our liberties' after that it was what the ?

As for that 'some evil people, yeah.

Some evil people did use this event & the tragic deaths of 3000 Americans to complete the takeover of our government & we had a man(?) as President who was so weak & never really committed to America or it's people who let them undermine our Liberties. He, as our President, was suppose to be there to protect us from this kind of sabotage, this treachery, this Coup d'état. And he didn’t, wouldn’t, was part of it, a tool, a coward, a traitor.

IE: For the 2%ers, the Constitution became more and more of a foot mat, the economy truly their piggy bank, we torture, our educational systems becomes worthless, prisons privatized, laws created by corporations to keep them filled, deregulation in everything, etc ... and we all watch & let it happen because, hey to do otherwise supports those Islamic terrorist, or is it that we obeyed the Christian powers that set it up & pulled it off. Right before our very eyes, real white man’s magic.

Oh, in case you forgot right after that morning's video extravaganza, Osama did come out publicly & condemn the savage destruction and denied any involvement, offered sympathy, prayers & condolences to the victim & their families. I saw it, I heard it, on American & World News, but everyone forgot?

But then again the Neo-Con drums beat louder & louder & louder & he became our devil. The Republicans & their masters did this to us & they aren’t done. In fact Bush encouraged us to buck up spend more & more money & be afraid, about whatever is the flavor color of the day.

Those evil people are not a them it has always been & is a ‘us’. That part of us that has no problem in destroying Iraq, using drones to kill innocents, steal retirements, all of what we, as a people are now that we never would have allowed before. Obama killing Osama was just throwing us a gnawed bone, declaring no investigations of what went on under GW Bush, on torture, etc, that’s the meat we don’t get.

So I agree with Relogic et al.

However, I do openly & humbly, with sorrow, morn and commemorate the wasteful unnecessary vicious loss of the 3000. I pray for their souls & the dissipation of our humanity and courage. Vowing to again, a willingness take up arms against these slings & arrows of the outrageous fortunes of the 2%ers.

Revolution! Death to the 2%ers, to get my America back, bloodied but wiser to the ways of the elite few. WE, the people have repeatedly proven, under their tutelages & direction, how vengeful we can be & we’re coming. So 2%ers & Occupy’ers remember that, this aint over. Nor is it about words alone anymore, is it? No more peace love dove BS.
And if it is, how sad the ‘terrorist’ (?) won, we are but chaff in their, the 2%ers, mighty wind. They huffed & they puffed & blew our houses down around us…

Oh I’m still voting for Obama, not cause I ever believe his BS, he just wasn’t another Clinton, another secret Republican sporting a blue dress.

However, that caricatured Romney is another more dangerous wimp like GW Bush, how he mugs how tough he is? Every time his wife speaks, to this one man, she emasculates him in public even more than his practiced questioning sissy look. (Left, right, head tilted & cocked slightly, mouth holding an ever so slight grimace, eye brows arched a bit.)

Warning: America you vote for him & his treacherous lapdog boy Ryan, they’ll sell us out so hard & fast. Quicker & harder than Bush ever did, and further down this path at that. All in the name of ‘GOD’? Well which deity? A Mormon or a Roman Catholic God,

I know! Both, collusion on a higher plain. Then they can deny or reinterprets which, 20 mins later, like everything else in their campaign. I am Roman Catholic, and these two ‘gods’ are different, read the theologies, open your mind. Scary to know stuff. Don’t ever fool yourself that all Gods, let alone resulting moralities are the same, damn they ain’t.

Am I being disrespectful by politicizing 911? For me it has always been only about politics, theirs. Like I said before our turn!

God don't bless America! WE, the people ... DO!

Curtis Smay

September 11, 2012 12:26pm

Vote Democrat straight down the line and support OWS with actions and money , it is abundantly clear that we have no friends in the SP court , congress and senate.What a mess voters have made of a wonderful way of government.Shame on the voters Whose brains have shriveled on the vine.

Curtis Smay

September 11, 2012 12:27pm

This really looks bad on these folks , ignorance or cowardice.?

barking bird

September 11, 2012 11:31am

I agree, Norman and Relogic. There are many of us who have done more than simply "commemorate" this day over these eleven years. Anyone who peels back even the most superficial layer of the story will quickly recognize the obvious, alarming disconnect between the official story and the actual facts. May the truth be more widely known. Soon.

relogic

September 11, 2012 11:09am

Forgot to reveal the link--http://www.youtube.com/user/ae911truth

PSzymeczek

September 11, 2012 9:54am

Do other anniversaries of national tragedies get the same attention as this every year? Not that I can see. We have gotten to the point where 9/11 defines who we are as a country. I think that gives a kind of victory to the perpetrators.

Norman Allen

September 11, 2012 9:33am

Commemoration of 911 should include a rational analysis of the event itself through a panel of academic scientists, demolition experts, military experts, explosive experts, logistics experts, military experts, history experts, stock market experts to determine the forces behind the event. Only those who buy assertions of authority bought the story of a bunch of cave-dwellers doing it with hijackers some of whom seems to have been resurrected in other parts of the world. Google it and you shall see the preponderance of evidence screaming for an objective analysis. NO ONE WILL OPEN RATIONAL INVESTIGATION to this event. It just feels good to vent what many believe to have been a huge cover-up.

relogic

September 11, 2012 11:08am

I watched this riveting 60 minutes of solid reports from architects, demolition professionals and psychologists who signed on with their reputations to show that those two planes could not have destroyed the towers.

It is very moving to see victims' families and career people put their reputations out there for ridicule.