September 11, 2008

Today is Patriot’s Day. It is seven years since the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, Shanksville PA, and our nation as a whole occurred.

Today is intended to be a day of National service. There are activities and memorials scheduled in many communities.

Tonight at the Pentagon, they will officially dedicate and open the Pentagon Memorial which celebrates each of the 184 lives lost at the site of the attack.

This week, at Boston’s Logan Airport, a September 11 memorial was dedicated remembering the people who perished aboard American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175. Both flights took off from Logan that morning.

And today in New York City, at Ground Zero, presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama will come together to remember those lost in the attacks.

And today, there will be a moratorium on negative presidential election ads. John McCain’s campaign has said that they will pull all ads today, and Barack Obama’s campaign vows to pull all ads that are “critical of John McCain.”