September 11, 2001

TRAGEDY ON AMERICAN SOIL

Pray for our colleagues who were involved in recovery operations, or who were injured or killed in the line of duty.

Rescue workers remove a man from one of the World Trade Center towers in New York City, early September 11, 2001. Both towers were hit by planes crashing into the buildings and collapsed a short time later. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)

An emergency worker treats a victim near the World Trade Center in New York after terrorists crashed two airliners into the twin 110-story towers Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. Both towers collapsed following the crashes.   (AP/Photo/Amy Sancetta)

An injured person from the Pentagon is loaded into an ambulance outside the building Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 after the building took a direct, devastating hit from an aircraft during a terrorist attack.   (AP Photo, Mandatory Credit, Will Morris)

Firefighters rest as rescue efforts continue at the World Trade Center in New York Wednesday Sept. 12, 2001.  Many fireman are missing and feared dead in the rubble from the terrorist attack Tuesday.  (AP Photo / Beth Keiser)

Firefighters make their way through the rubble after two airliners crashed into the World Trade Center in New York bringing down the landmark buildings Tuesday.  (AP Photo/Shawn Baldwin)

FDNY Firefighters raise and American flag where one of the World Trade Center towers once stood.  (Thomas E. Franklin / The Record)

 

Engine 22 and Ladder 24 covered in debris following the first collapse. (Photo by Michael J. Coppola)

Father Mychal F. Judge's helmet sits atop his casket at the front of Saint Francis of Assisi Church in New York during the funeral service for the Fire Department chaplain Saturday, Sept. 15, 2001. Judge died in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers after Tuesday's terrorist attack. (AP Photo / Kathy Willens)

Crane operators pull the fire truck from Engine Company 204 from the debris as they continue their search for victims at the World Trade Center disaster, Thursday, September 13, 2001, in New York.  (AP Photo, Ron Frehm)

Firefighters, rescue workers, police support and other organizations work at the remains of the the World Trade Center towers in New York, Wednesday.  (AP Photo)

A group of firefighters and rescue workers walks around heavy equipment as they walk onto the World Trade Center rescue and recovery site Wednesday morning Sept. 19, 2001 in New York.  (AP Photo/Ted Warren)

The National Fallen Firefighters Memorial at the National Emergency Training Center in Emmitsburg, Md., Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2001, will be the location for the The National Firefighters Memorial service Oct. 7. Firefighters who died in the 9-11 Tragedy will be remembered at the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial weekend in 2002.  (AP Photo/Bill Ryan)
 

San Francisco firefighters and policeman hold onto an American flag prior to the San Francisco Giants and Houston Astros game Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2001, at Pacific Bell Park in San Francisco, in remembrance of New York firefighters and policemen who lost their lives battling the World Trade Center disaster last week.  (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Rescue workers stand in silence as the body of a New York City firefighter, on ropes in background center, is removed from the rubble of the World Trade Center collapse in New York, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2001.   (AP Photo/William Denis)
 

New York firefighters continue to battle blazes at the World Trade Center in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2001, more than a week after the attack.  (AP Photo/FEMA, Andrea Booher)
 

A New York firefighter walks through the rubble at the World Trade Center in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2001, more than a week after the attack.  (AP Photo/FEMA, Andrea Booher)

New York firefighters continue to battle blazes at the World Trade Center in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2001, more than a week after the attack.  (AP Photo/FEMA, Andrea Booher)
 

New York firefighters and urban rescue workers sift through the rubble of the World Trade Center in New York, searching for survivors Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2001.  (AP Photo/FEMA, Michael Rieger)

September 11, 2002

9/11/01 Observances

at Adams Middle School

Chief Cassidy recited the Pledge of Allegiance over the P.A. at the beginning of the school day.

at Holliston Fire Department

8:46 a.m. - "moment of radio silence" in honor of the September 11^th victims

9:45 a.m. - Apparatus roll out of bays

10:00 a.m. - All available fire department personnel assemble at attention in front of individual station flag pole

10:05 a.m. - Church bells ring 5-5-5-5

10:06 a.m. - Lower station flag to half mast

10:07 a.m.  - Recognition Service

10:28 a.m. - Church bells ring 5-5-5-5

10:29 a.m. - Raise the flag

[in accordance with the Presidential Declaration of Sept. 4 - we will leave the flag at half staff for the rest of Patriot Day]

10:30 a.m. - Community Reception

in Milford

(Holliston Fire Department's Color Guard)

7:00 p.m. - 911 Memorial dedication in front of the Milford Federal Savings Bank

in Natick

7:30 p.m. - St. Patrick's Church

regional Memorial Service honoring the 343 fire service victims of 9/11

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