8512-11 Join Naitional Moment of Remembrance on 9/11/11

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RESOLUTION NO. 8512-11 13Y: Anderson, Bullock, Juris, >~ Nowlin, Madigan, Powers, Smith. A RESOLUTION to take effect immediately provided it receives the affirmative vote of at least five (S) members of Council, or otherwise to take effect and be in force after the earliest period allowed by law, joining the National Moment of Remembrance on the lOt" anniversary of September 11. WHEREAS, Lakewood City Council and the administration of Mayor Michael. Summers express their support of U.S. Senate Resolution 237, which passed the Senate un- animously, regarding our coming together as a nation and ceasing all work or other activity for a moment of remembrance beginning at 1 p.m. EDT on September 11, 2011, in honor of the 10`" anniversary of the terrorist attacks committed against the United States; and WHEREAS, at 8:46 a.m. on September 11, 2001, hijacked American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the upper portion of the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City, New York; and WHEREAS, 17 minutes later, at 9:03 a.m., hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center; and WHEREAS, at 9:37 a.m. the west wall of the Pentagon was hit by hijacked American Airlines Flight 77, the impact of which caused immediate and catastrophic damage to the headquarters of the Department of Defense; and WHEREAS, at approximately 70 a.m, the passengers and crew of hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 acted heroically to retake control of the airplane and thwart the taking of additional American lives by crashing the airliner in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and in doing so gave their lives to save countless others; and WHEREAS, nearly 3,000 innocent civilians were killed in the heinous attacks of September 11, 2001; and WHEREAS, tens of thousands of individuals narrowly escaped the attacks at the Pen- tagon and World Trade Center and, as witnesses to this tragedy, are forever changed; and WHEREAS, countless fire departments, police departments, first responders, gov- ernmental officials, workers, emergency medical personnel and volunteers responded imme- diately and heroically to those horrific events; and WHEREAS, the Fire Department of New York suffered 343 fatalities on September 11, 2001, the largest loss of life of any emergency response agency in United States history; and