Posted on 08/06/2020 9:03:18 AM PDT by DoodleBob
COVID-19 has spread more heartache this time on the 19th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
Family members will not read the names of their fallen loved ones at this years ceremony in Manhattan, according to an invitation sent to 9/11 next-of-kin and obtained by The Post.
Instead, the ceremony will play a recording of a past name-reading.
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum, which sent the invite, said the move comes out of an abundance of caution.
As we continue to develop plans for this years 9/11 anniversary, our hope is to gather on the Memorial plaza, adhering to state and federal guidelines as they relate to social distancing and public gatherings, reads the missive from Alice M. Greenwald, president and CEO of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum.
As in years past, the focus of the commemoration will be the reading of the names. we will not ask family members to read the names of victims in person on a stage this year. Instead, we will use recorded name readings from the Museums In Memoriam exhibition to ensure that your loved one is recognized and remembered.
FDNY retired Lt. Jim McCaffrey, whose brother-in-law, Battalion Chief Orio Palmer, was killed on 9/11, is glad the tradition will continue in some form amid the pandemic.
It wont be the same, but at least the names will be mentioned, McCaffrey said. This was an attack on America. People need to remember that. So many people have already forgotten the sacrifice exhibited that day.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
...maybe we will see something like this again...
Ive come to view the phrase out of an abundance of caution as the most loathsome in the language. Next to youre late to dinner, of course.
By this time next year, DeBlasio, Cuomo, and Letitia James will have rid the city of that Islamophobic travesty. /sarc (but watch 'em do it)
I think of untold numbers of people that have tragically died and don’t get their names read in an annual ceremony.
Their survivors, most of whom didn’t get lots of dollars in compensation, have to continue their lives without an annual national recognition of their tragedy.
That wasn’t a funeral, it was a political rally. Nevertheless, there were no masks and just like Trump’s rally when people get infected the media will certainly shout it out, won’t they?
You, bet! They will shout it out!
All I know is Biteme’s black vote may be less than 70%.
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