To remember 9/11, governor urges residents to lower flags
RALEIGH (AP) — Gov. Mike Easley has ordered all state government offices to lower their flags to half-staff today on the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Easley urged North Carolinians to honor the thousands of people who died on Sept. 11 by lowering their flags today.
President Bush has also asked the country to observe a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m. — the time that the first hijacked plane hit the World Trade Center towers in New York City.
In New York, four moments of silence were planned Thursday morning to commemorate the precise times that two hijacked jetliners crashed into the World Trade Center, along with the times that each tower collapsed.
Services also were to be held in a field in western Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon outside Washington, where terrorists crashed two other hijacked planes.
Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama were to pay silent respects at ground zero Thursday afternoon and later attend a city forum on public service. McCain also was scheduled to attend a memorial service in Shanksville, Pa., for the 40 people killed aboard United Airlines Flight 93.
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Photo Caption: Keith Jackson of Denton drives to Greensboro on Thursday.
911 EVENTS
LOCAL EVENTS
- 8-9 a.m.: Special prayers, as part of Wells Memorial Church of God in Christ 22nd annual Prayer and Life Clinic, 1001 E. Washington St., Greensboro.
- 7 p.m.: Flag-raising ceremony sponsored by Woodmen of the World Lodge No. 26, to honor the heroes and victims of Sept. 11, Lankford Memorial Baptist Church, 3708 Yanceyville St., Greensboro.
NATIONAL EVENTS
NEW YORK
The ceremony begins near ground zero at 8:40 a.m. and proceeds soon after to the memorial site.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg will introduce four moments of silence to commemorate the precise times each plane hit the World Trade Center towers and each tower fell.
Names of all 2,751 victims will be read.
PENNSYLVANIA
A ceremony in honor of the 40 passengers and crew killed on Flight 93 when it crashed into a field near rural Shanksville will be held at 9:55 a.m. - the time the plane went down - at a temporary memorial near the crash site. Names of the victims will be read.
WASHINGTON
The dedication ceremony for the Pentagon Sept. 11 memorial will begin at 8 a.m. President Bush and Defense Secretary Robert Gates will participate in the ceremony, which will include wreath laying, music and a reading of victims' names. The memorial, built at the spot where Flight 77 plowed into the Pentagon's west wall, killing 184 people, opens to the public at 7 p.m.
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