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Kathleen (lludwig) posted an update Wednesday, Sep 11, 2013, 5:20pm EDT, 10 years, 8 months ago
Back from a shopping trip for some clothes, not my favorite thing! We then has lunch at Red Lobster which is some place we have not been for ages. I should have ordered the coconut shrimp with pina colada sauce instead of what I did. The lobster was ok, the scallops were good, but I couldn't even eat the shrimp.
Hi David, Are you nit picking about the apostrophe and S? LOL As well as the change in date? You must be really bored or having nothing better to do or the whole change of date from under President Bush to what it is under this President now must have "got your goat." 😉 It is not like it was a long-established tradition and it made more sense to me to remember 9/11 in the same manner that the battle cry of "Remember Pearl Harbor" (Dec. 7) I didn't check that date so that might be another nit you can pick! LOL
Yes, I know about Patriots' Day in Massachusetts and Wisconsin and Patriot's Day in Maine. [note the apostrophe before the S in that case!] My BIL has lived in Boston since the late 1970s so I've long been aware of their state holiday.
The Boston Marathon is always held on Patriots' Day, which is the the third Monday of April. Nothing wrong with adding that it is a Day of Remembrance in my book. Helps to clarify what Patriots were are talking about. Of course, I am old enough to remember when Nov. 11 was Remembrance Day (also known as Poppy Day or Armistice Day)and then it turned into Veterans Day. Names may change but the intent to honor remains in all cases and in fact had now become even more inclusive.
In Boston this year the annual rite to commemorate the 206 Massachusetts victims of 9/11 will also include the four dead and more than 260 injured in the Boston Marathon. A moment of silence for those victims will be included by the State house and there also will be tributes to the first responders.
Boston Marathon Bombing Victims Share In September 11 Observances
The families of 9/11 victims came together with survivors of the Boston Marathon bombings Wednesday in a special ceremony at the State House.
The annual Madeline Amy Sweeney Award for Civilian Bravery was presented to Carlos Arredondo, who rushed in after the April 15 bombings to rescue Jeff Bauman, who lost both legs in the blast.
Sweeney was a flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11, the first of two jetliners that were hijacked from Logan Airport and flown into World Trade Center’s twin towers.
Bauman was in the audience for Wednesday’s presentation, along with the family of MIT police officer Sean Collier, who was shot and killed during the manhunt for the two suspects back in April.
“I smile when I see Jeff Bauman and other survivors. They are getting healthy and they are very beautiful,” said Arredondo, who embraced Bauman as he accepted the award.
Sweeney was just doing her job 12 years ago, Arredondo said, and “I was just doing my duty as a human being,” after the bombings.
“I knew (by) the size of the explosion that it really hurt a lot of people. That’s why I rushed into action and helped out,” he told reporters after the ceremony.
Bill Richard, the father of the youngest marathon bombing victim Martin Richard, also delivered a brief message.
Observances of the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks began Wednesday in Boston with a wreath-laying ceremony at the 9/11 memorial in the Public Garden.
It was followed by a reading at the State House of the names of the more than 200 people with direct ties to Massachusetts who died in the attacks on September 11, 2001.
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I will have to remember to ask Swifty what it was like in his neighborhood today. He not only lives in the Financial District but right in front of his building is the British Garden which commemorates the citizens of Great Britain and of the commonwealth nations who died or where injured in the 9/11 attack. He doesn't live that far from the WTC. We pass by it each time we leave the city. Someday we will visit.
Yes, I think Day of Remembrance is very appropriate to cover both 9/11 and the Boston Marathon.