ANNUAL COMMEMORATION 2024
September 11, 2024 Commemoration
8:30AM | Moment of Silence and Reading of Names
Front Steps of the Massachusetts State House
Welcome – Karin Giansanti, MA 9/11 Fund Family Advisory Committee Chair
”To Where You Are” by Josh Groban
Governor Maura Healey, presiding
American Flag Presentation
‘Star Spangled Banner” by Francis Scott Key performed by Boston Fire Department Acapella Group
The Flag will be presented in honor of those who died on September 11, 2001
Massachusetts Environmental Police Color Guard
Taps
LTC (Ret) Samuel Poulten
8:46 AM | Moment of Silence
”We Remember Them” – Diane Hunt
Reading of the Names for our Family Members and Friends
Readers:
Governor Maura Healey, Lt. Governor Kim Driscoll, Mayor Michelle Wu, Inspector General Jeffrey Shapiro, Pat and Bob Hoban, Pamela Hayes, Joyce Ng and Sicilia Ng-Packard, Diane Hunt, Elena Salinas (Manager Inflight Operations American Airlines) Teresa Mathai, Captain Brad Nordgren (Chief Pilot of American Airlines), Lisa Morales, Barbara Bowen (Flight Attendant American Airlines), Karin Giansanti.
Bell Ringing – Sicilia Ng-Packard
Please note: names are read in alphabetical order with the exception of the relatives of the readers.
9:40AM | Commemoration Observance & Madeline Amy Sweeney Award for Civilian Bravery Presentation
Massachusetts State House Chamber of the House of Representatives
The Pledge of Allegiance
Welcome – Speaker Pro Tempore of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, Kate Hogan
Family Emcee – Teresa Mathai
Musical Performance by the Andover Choral Society
Video of Keynote Speaker, Deborah Rivlin, and Community of Care Video
Poem – Pat Hoban
“We Remember Them” Video Tribute
The 2024 Madeline ”Amy” Sweeney Award for Civilian Bravery
Lt. Governor Kim Driscoll
Benediction – Father Jack Graham
Musical Performance by the Andover Choral Society
Closing Remarks
Speaker Pro Tempore of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, Kate Hogan. Sign Language interpretation provided by the MA Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
1:30PM | Wreath Laying Ceremony – Boston Public Garden, 9/11 Contemplative Garden
Mayor Michelle Wu, presiding
Laying the Wreath with Mayor Wu, Pat and Bob Hoban
Emcee – Karin Giansanti
Bagpipes from Boston Police Gaelic Column
”God Bless America” by Irving Berlin – performed by Boston Police Officer Steve McNulty