9/11 25th Anniversary Memorial Ceremony

MEMORIAL CEREMONY
Each year, the campus gathers in remembrance of 9/11. Please join us as we commemorate the 25th anniversary with a 9/11 Memorial Ceremony. 

Friday, September 11, 2026
9:45 a.m. - Arrival – Please be seated by 9:50 a.m.
9:57 a.m. – Ceremony
Campus Center, Ballroom

MOMENTS OF SILENCE
Please join our campus observance with a moment of silence at each bell toll in remembrance of the lives lost.

8:46 a.m.:  American Airlines Flight 11 hit the North Tower
9:03 a.m.:  United Airlines Flight 175 hit the South Tower
9:37 a.m.:  American Airlines Flight 77 hit the Pentagon, near Washington, D.C.
9:59 a.m.:  South Tower collapsed
10:03 a.m.: United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania
10:28 a.m.: North Tower collapsed
 

AMERICAN FLAG INSTALLATION

After the Memorial Ceremony, President Prezant invites guests to honor the 25th Anniversary of September 11th by placing an American flag in front of Horton Hall's 9/11 Memorial in honor of:

• A life lost
• A first responder
• A service member
• Someone you love
• A commitment to perform an act of kindness or service for others

"Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11."
                     - President Obama in a 2011 radio address

 

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