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Patriot Day ceremony in Avondale Estates is Sept. 11

The 9/11 Memorial & Museum at the former World Trade Center complex in New York City is one of three sites in the United States where terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people and injured many more on Sept. 11, 2001. Other sites were near Shanksville, Pennsylvania and the Pentagon - all involving hijacked airplanes. (Courtesy of 911memorial.org)

Credit: 911memorial.org

Credit: 911memorial.org

The 9/11 Memorial & Museum at the former World Trade Center complex in New York City is one of three sites in the United States where terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people and injured many more on Sept. 11, 2001. Other sites were near Shanksville, Pennsylvania and the Pentagon - all involving hijacked airplanes. (Courtesy of 911memorial.org)
By Carolyn Cunningham – For the AJC
Sept 6, 2023

In Avondale Estates, a 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony will be 8:30-9 a.m. Sept. 11 at the Dewey C. Brown Plaza across from City Hall, 21 N. Avondale Plaza.

City officials and the Avondale Estates Garden Club will host the ceremony.

The free ceremony will include ringing a bell at 8:45 a.m. to mark the time the first of two World Trade Center towers was hit by a hijacked airplane in New York City.

“On this day, we honor those who were impacted by this tragedy and mourn fallen heroes,” according to a city statement.

Information: Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania at nps.gov/flni, National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial in Arlington, Virginia at PentagonMemorial.org and 9/11 Memorial & Museum in New York City at 911memorial.org

View more details at AvondaleEstates.org.

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