San Diego ceremonies remember victims of 9/11

The eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorism attacks will be marked at somber ceremonies around San Diego Friday.

The University of San Diego will pay tribute to the nearly 3,000 people killed during the terrorist attacks with moments of prayer and reflection.

There will also be a 12:15 p.m. Mass.

Aboard the USS Midway Aircraft Carrier Museum, officials will read the names of the victims of the attack beginning at 2:30 p.m. The event also will feature a 21-gun salute and a San Diego Fire-Rescue Department helicopter flyover.

Hundreds will later march through San Diego’s Balboa Park during the third annual “Freedom Walk” to reflect on the lives lost during the terrorist strikes, which claimed about 600 more lives than the number of people killed in the surprise Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

The Freedom Walk event, sponsored by Operation Homefront, is scheduled to begin at 3:30 p.m. with a ceremony at the Veterans Memorial Garden.

Retired U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Len Herring will be the guest speaker at the event.

On Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers slammed two airliners into the World Trade Center in New York.

Both buildings later collapsed with hundreds trapped inside. A third plane slammed into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and a fourth crashed in a Pennsylvania field after passengers acted to thwart the terrorists’ plans to crash it into a Washington, D.C., landmark, believed to
have been the Capitol or the White House.

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