Patriot’s Day remembrance ceremony this Friday

Mayor Nancy Shaver and Fire Chief J C Costeira informed Historic City News that they will lead the Patriot’s Day “Ceremony of Remembrance” for those who died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Fourteen years later, the City of St Augustine continues the annual tradition on Friday September 11th at 8:30 a.m.

This is a community gathering; residents and visitors to St Augustine are invited and encouraged to participate in the brief ceremony.

Each year on the anniversary of the terrible events and amazing acts of bravery in New York City, Washington, DC, and Somerset County, Pennsylvania; the City of St. Augustine holds a prayer, some music, some words, and a moment of silence.

The ceremony will be held at the main fire station, 101 Malaga Street, beginning at 8:30 a.m. with Chief Costeira announcing the traditional minute of silence precisely at 8:44 a.m., the time the first hijacked aircraft crashed into the World Trade Center. The silence will be broken by the sound of fourteen tolls of the ceremonial bell — once for each year since the attacks.