‘Open-door policy,
“We have an open-door policy, and I could always hear his laughter,” Eric-Jan Schmidt, a colleague of Mathai’s at Cambridge Technology Partners, told the Times.
All 9/11 victims will be remembered at memorial services planned across the nation on Sept. 11 to mark the 20th anniversary of the attacks.
At the 9/11 memorial in Lower Manhattan, New York — an area known for years after the attacks as “Ground Zero” — the names of the fallen will be read aloud.
“Throughout the ceremony, we will observe six moments of silence, acknowledging when each of the World Trade Center towers was struck and fell and the times corresponding to the attack on the Pentagon and the crash of Flight 93,” the 9/11 Memorial & Museum wrote on its website.
The annual “Tribute of Light,” which are lights pointed to the sky in the shape of the twin towers, will go on that night.
Most 9/11 victims were from either New York or New Jersey, where many who lived across the Hudson River from the World Trade Center recall the horror of watching the twin towers collapse from their homes in Hoboken and Jersey City.
The Pentagon Memorial, which honors the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the Pentagon, recently finished renovations, according to the Department of Defense.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark A. Milley are planning to host an observance ceremony at the Pentagon Memorial at 9 a.m. on Saturday to honor the memory of those who died on 9/11, according to ABCNews7.
More than 2,700 people died at the World Trade Center alone on 9/11, including the passengers of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175. Another 184 were killed when American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into The Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and 44 died on United Airlines Flight 93 near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
This news report by Alex Newman of Patch was published Friday, Sept. 10, 2021, as part the partnership with YourArlington.
