Exchange Club, ABAC plan Patriot Day observances to honor, remember 9/11 in Tifton
TIFTON, Ga. – According to our news partners with the Tifton Grapevine Newsletter,
Patriot Day is Monday, Sept. 11, in honor of those who lost their lives in the attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001.
This year marks 22 years since that day when two planes downed the World Trade Center twin towers in New York City, when another plane struck the Pentagon just outside Washington, D.C., and when another plane, apparently heading for Washington, was downed in Pennsylvania as passengers fought the terrorists.
There are two remembrance ceremonies planned Monday in Tifton. An observance is scheduled at 11 a.m. Monday at the Leroy Rogers Center on Second Street. Hosted by the Exchange Club of Tifton, the program is open to the community.
The speaker will be Mittie Vaughan, editor and publisher of the Pierce County Press in Blackshear and an Exchange Club member.
On Monday, the Tifton Main Street Program will place flags, donated by the Tifton Exchange Club, throughout the Jack Stone Veterans Park downtown, said Hillery Culpepper, Main Street manager.
At 1 p.m. Monday, the Student Government Association at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College will host a 9/11 Remembrance Service open to the community. The service, to be held at the ABAC Chapel, will include a prayer, presentation of the colors, and a brief presentation about the events of 9/11.
Jerome Loving, a member of the Douglas American Legion, will be the featured speaker.
Emily Rowland, a student government senator in the ABAC School of Arts and Sciences, said the service is being held to acknowledge and honor all those affected by the events of Sept. 11, 2001.
“Following the unforgettable events of 9/11, the nation found unity in their emotions of grief, anger, shock, and fear,” she said. “Our hope for the 9/11 Remembrance Service at ABAC is to provide a place to reflect on the grief that so much of our nation continues to live with following the attacks on 9/11.”
Lionella Gutierrez Nava, also a student senator, said “the 9/11 Remembrance is not just a memory where we remember the ones we lost; it is a day where we express our gratitude to the heroes and the family and friends that we lost.
“We want to invite the community to this special event to deliver a message given by ABAC to show our respects that this day is not forgotten. We want the community to know that ABAC remembers, and that ABAC will never forget.”
By: FRANK SAYLES JR., Tifton Grapevine
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