Patriot Day
Remembrance of September 11th, 2001

 

"NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim September 11, 2003, as Patriot Day. I call upon the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities, including remembrance services and candlelight vigils. I also call upon the Governors of the United States and the Common- wealth of Puerto Rico, as well as appropriate officials of all units of government, to direct that the flag be flown at half-staff on Patriot Day. In addition, I call upon all Americans to display the flag at half-staff from their homes on that day and to observe a moment of silence beginning at 8:46 a.m. eastern daylight time to honor the innocent victims who lost their lives as a result of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. "

 

Freedom itself was attacked this
morning by a faceless coward and
freedom will be defended.
~President Bush, September 11th, 2001
 

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts. ~George Eliot

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. ~Helen Keller

To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die. ~Thomas Campbell