Cathedral of the Pines, 10 Hale Hill Road in Rindge, will host a reading of the names of the victims of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001,on Sunday, Sept. 11, at 1 p.m., rain or shine.
Cathedral of the Pines is a nondenominational sanctuary. The public is invited.
The remembrance is organized by Remember to Remember September 11. It honors the 2,977 people who were killed by the terrorist attack against the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. The ceremony will take approximately three hours.
The theme of the memorial is from Ecclesiastes 9:11-12. “11. Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to those with knowledge, but time and chance happen to them all. 12. For man does not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil net, and like birds that are caught in a snare, so the children of man are snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them.”
The victims’ names are read by actress Betsy Palmer, actor Jerry Orbach and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen at the Pentagon, Public Affairs Officer Alan Hicks of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and volunteers at the New York unit of Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic (now known as Learning Ally).
Palmer read the names of the victims of Flight 11, Flight 175, Flight 77 and Flight 93. The volunteers at RFB&D recorded the names of the victims at the World Trade Center and the New York City firefighters. Hicks recorded the names of the officers from Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Orbach read the names of the New York City police officers, and Mullen will read the names of the Pentagon victims.
Remember to Remember September 11 is an all-volunteer effort. Boy Scouts from Jaffrey, New Ipswich, Peterborough and Rindge and students and staff from Franklin Pierce University have volunteered to honor those who died Sept. 11, 2001.