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Consider/Discuss/Act on a Resolution Recognizing September 11, 2011 as a National Moment of Remembrance
Summary
MEETING DATE: September 6, 2011
DEPARTMENT: City Council
Brian Loughmiller, Mayor
CONTACT: Brian Loughmiller, Mayor
RECOMMENDED CITY COUNCIL ACTION:
• Approval of Resolution
ITEM SUMMARY:
• This year we mark the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, a day that changed America forever.
• The United States Senate, in an overwhelming demonstration of unity, unanimously passed a resolution establishing a national Moment of Remembrance at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on September 11, 2011.
• During the Moment of Remembrance, every person across the country is called upon to stop and remember those we lost in the September 11th attacks.
• The Moment of Remembrance will take place for one full minute at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time on September 11, 2011.
• Cities and towns, firehouses, churches and other institutions across the country are called upon to sound sirens and ring bells during that minute.
• These sirens and bells will be a signal for each person to stop and remember the people we lost and demonstrate the perseverance the American people have shown since that fateful day.
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