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City to commemorate 9/11

The city will pay tribute to to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks Sunday.

Mayor Kirk Caldwell will join first responders at 5 p.m. in front of the Honolulu Police Department headquarters to begin the Mayor’s Remembrance Walk.

The procession will be led by a police motorcycle formation, color guard, and the Celtic Pipes and Drums of Hawaii, followed by fire, Emergency Services and Emergency Management departments, city officials and other dignitaries.

The Remembrance Walk will proceed Ewa on Beretania Street, makai on Alapai and South streets to Honolulu Fire Department headquarters at South and Queen streets.

Following the Fire Department ceremony, the procession will then continue Ewa on Queen Street, and mauka on Punchbowl Street to Honolulu Hale, where the walk culminates with a ceremony at the Eternal Flame at which the Rev. Rheo Ofalsa of Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu and Caldwell will speak. The ceremony includes music by the Royal Hawaiian Band, an oli by Kaipo Leopoldino, a hula performance and the traditional playing of “taps.”

One response to “City to commemorate 9/11”

  1. WizardOfMoa says:

    Let no disrespectful and personal agendas disguise via our constitutional rights disrupt this solemn and sacred ceremony of remembrance! We are the United States of America. Let our National Anthem be heard and revered by all of us standing tall and united as one ! God bless our America!

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