Although many occasions have been cancelled this year, “it has not been cancelled. It has just been replaced so that we can honor those we enjoy in a respectful and respectful way,” Katsimatides said. was motivated only through a public fitness emergency.
“Who expected COVID-19?. . . It was absolutely unforeseen. Just like 9/11,” he said.
This year’s plans were a balancing exercise at sites where hijacked planes flying through Al Qaeda terrorists crashed on September 11, 2001: New York, the Pentagon and a box near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
The 93 Flight Memorial near Shanksville interrupts its same old 90-minute ceremony, in component by eliminating musical interludes. Memorial spokeswoman Katherine Cordek said the names of the victims would be read, but through a user rather than several circles of relatives. Members.
Military leaders will celebrate the Pentagon rite without the presence of the families of those affected, and the names they have enjoyed will be recited through a recording, rather than through readers on the ground. teams later on Friday.
In New York, where the country’s deadliest coronavirus peak occurred in early spring, but since then it has been well contained, the leaders of the Museum and National Monument on September 11 said their plan for an unsyged rite would respect the precautions against the virus and on September 11 the commitment of families to be at 0 on the anniversary.
But some other 9/11 organization, the Stephen Stiller Tunnel to Towers Foundation, temporarily held its own simultaneous rite a few blocks away, saying that victims’ relatives can simply recite names while maintaining a safe distance.
“We want to keep telling America what happened 19 years ago. And they want to see this excitement of the day, a recording,” says President Frank Siller. He says he can attend any of the celebrations to honor his lost brother, fireman Stephen.
Meanwhile, Fire Chief Daniel Nigro told existing firefighters in a note last month that the branch “strongly recommends” members not to participate in the September 11 celebrations. The branch held a limited rite of participation on Wednesday to upload names to a memorial wall to detect members who died after being exposed to toxins released by the remains.
Tensions over anniversary plans erupt when the monument announced last month that it would cancel the Tribute to Light, two blue rays shining in the night sky above Manhattan. Although there is no official collection to see the lights, the monument cited virus hazards for the installation team.
The cancellation outraged relatives of some victims, policemen, chimney syndicates and politicians, who noted that the sites of structures around the city were considered to reopen for months. Mayor Mike Bloomberg, the museum’s multimillion-dollar president, stepped in to keep the monument lights on (Tunnel to Towers now places lighting fixtures on the Flight 93 Memorial and the Pentagon).
Memorial President Alice Greenwald later said the organization “should have approached this factor differently. “
However, the monument’s movements have stoked mistrust among relatives of those who suffered on September 11 and wonder how long the call and other celebrations will last.
Katismatides, the board member, hopes the rite will become a general again next year.
Debra Epps attended ground zero rite year and said that reading names and adding a few words in homage to her brother Christopher, an accountant, meant a lot to her.
Still, he thinks the memorial is right to give up reading the live call this year. The virus worries you enough not to attend.
“It’s a difficult resolution to make, but I know we’re still in this pandemic,” said Epps, who works in the fitness industry.
“I’ll do it my brother no matter what, ” he said.