10th Anniversary Memorial Services
Many organizations held memorial services and events for the 10th anniversary of the attacks.
- The official New York City observance of the 10th anniversary of September 11 took place at the World Trade Center site at 8:40am – 12:30pm Sunday, September 11th, 2011. Zuccotti Park, Liberty Street between Broadway and Church Streets. Four moments of silence were observed to commemorate the times when each plane hit and each tower fell, starting at 8:46 a.m.
- At sunset, the "Tribute in Light" dual search light lit the skies above New York City for the night of 9/11/11.
- Liquid Church held Memorial worship services in three cities in New Jersey: Montclair, Morristown, and New Brunswick on 9/11/11 at 9:30am and 11:30am in each city. The church also commissioned and recorded a tribute song written by Dave Pettigrew & Frank Di Minno called, "There is Hope."
- In Radcliff Kentucky at the Kentucky Veteran's Cemetery Central, a committee of local citizens worked on a memorial effort taking only 8 weeks from the time of receipt of a piece of steel from the World Trade Center to the Tenth Anniversay remembrance ceremony. In that time they developed a concept design, found companies willing to donate time, labor, technical expertise, and material, and began a fund raising effort which allowed a memorial to be erected solely on private funding. This memorial completed phase I in these 8 weeks and now enters phase II. Hundreds of citizens assembled during the remembrance ceremony held for the Tenth Anniversay on Sunday, September 11th.
- On September 10, 2011 at the ALMA Awards, without acknowledging any connection to the WTC or the tenth anniversary, Demi Lovato did a live performance of her 2011 song Skyscraper. The English lyrics to the song include:
-
- Skies are crying...
- Only silence as it’s ending, like we never had a chance
- Do you have to make me feel like there’s nothing left of me...
- As the smoke clears I awaken and untangle you from me
- Would it make you feel better to watch me while I bleed
- All my windows still are broken but I’m standing on feet
- You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am
- Go on and try to tear me down, I will be rising from the ground
- Like a skyscraper
Read more about this topic: Memorials And Services For The September 11 Attacks
Famous quotes containing the words anniversary, memorial and/or services:
“The second day of July 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more”
—John Adams (1735–1826)
“When I received this [coronation] ring I solemnly bound myself in marriage to the realm; and it will be quite sufficient for the memorial of my name and for my glory, if, when I die, an inscription be engraved on a marble tomb, saying, “Here lieth Elizabeth, which reigned a virgin, and died a virgin.””
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
“Men will say that in supporting their wives, in furnishing them with houses and food and clothes, they are giving the women as much money as they could ever hope to earn by any other profession. I grant it; but between the independent wage-earner and the one who is given his keep for his services is the difference between the free-born and the chattel.”
—Elizabeth M. Gilmer (1861–1951)