SOUTH MISSISSIPPI – Across the country, tributes today
marked the 13th year since nearly 3,000 people lost their lives
during the terrorists attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001.
Following a speech Wednesday night promising to send some 400 more troops to help fight ISIS terrorists threatening the U.S., and who recently beheaded two American journalists, President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden observed a moment of silence outside the White House before heading to 9/11 tribute at the Pentagon and in New York.
White House Pauses for Moment of Silence (video)
Following a speech Wednesday night promising to send some 400 more troops to help fight ISIS terrorists threatening the U.S., and who recently beheaded two American journalists, President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden observed a moment of silence outside the White House before heading to 9/11 tribute at the Pentagon and in New York.
White House Pauses for Moment of Silence (video)
In South Mississippi, events included a variety of memorials
and tributes such as 9/11 Remembrance blood drives in Old Town Presbyterian
Church in Bay St. Louis and at L.H.
“Red” Barnett Senior Center in D’Iberville. Both drives were sponsored by the
Red Cross, and information can be accessed today at redcrossblood.org using code OTPC
for Bay St. Louis and 911DIBERVILLE. CDC
and
A Climb CDC and Americorps 9/11 Service Day was held at
Quarles Elementary School in Long Beach. As well, St. Martin High School’s 9/11
Memorial Tribute featured choir and theater students who performed a combination
of original material, published poetry recitation, choral performance and reading
of victim’s names.
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