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In New York

NOTABLE EVENTS:

Early morning — Bagpipe and drum corps from the Fire Department of New York, the Police Department, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and others will begin marching from each of the five city boroughs.

8 a.m. — Bagpipe processions will converge at the World Trade Center site and descend the ramp into ground zero.

8:46 a.m. — At the moment the first hijacked airliner hit the World Trade Center, Mayor Michael Bloomberg will call for the city to observe a moment of silence.
• New York Governor George Pataki will read Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address.”
• Former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani will begin reading the list of those killed on Sept. 11, 2001. Family members and co-workers of the victims as well as a selection of others will also read names, which is expected to take most of the nearly two-hour service.
• The bugle call “Taps” is played.
• New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey will read excerpts from the Declaration of Independence.

10:29 a.m. — Houses of worship around the nation will toll their bells, followed by a moment of silence at the time the second of the twin towers collapsed.
• Family members of victims will descend the ramp seven stories to the footprint of the twin towers. Each family will place a rose in a vase for an arrangement that will be preserved for a permanent memorial.

Early afternoon — President Bush arrives in New York and visits the World Trade Center site.

Sunset — President Bush and other world leaders attend a ceremony at Battery Park at which an eternal flame will be lit. Mayor Bloomberg will read a section from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1941 “Four Freedoms” address.

Evening — Candlelight vigils lasting 90 minutes will be held around the city, including Central Park in Manhattan, Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, Prospect Park in Brooklyn, Flushing Meadows in Queens, and Snug Harbor in Staten Island. Orchestras from around the city will provide music. At the Brooklyn vigil, the 69th Street Pier in Bay Ridge will be renamed American Veterans Pier. The ceremony wll end with the tossing of yellow roses into New York Harbor.

Other ceremonies in New York
• Bond brokerage Cantor Fitzgerald, which lost 658 employees, plans a private remembrance in Central Park.
• The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which lost 75 employees, plans an afternoon memorial.
• Several city firehouses that lost men and women plan private services for families.

On Broadway, 15 shows will be dark on Sept. 11, but eight other shows are scheduled to go on. Canceled are “Aida,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Cabaret,” “Chicago,” “42nd Street,” “Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune,” “Into the Woods,” “Les Miserables,” “The Lion King,” “Mamma Mia!,” “Noises Off,” “Oklahoma!,” “The Phantom of the Opera,” “Rent,” and “Urinetown.”

Westchester County plans a moment of silence, and a ceremony that includes the reading of a poem by Poet Laureate Billy Collins. About 108 county residents were killed in the attack.

The United Nations, which opens a new General Assembly this week, will hold a ceremony of remembrance. It will include Secretary General Kofi Annan, John Negroponte, US ambassador to the United Nations, and the president of the new General Assembly session, Jan Kaven of the Czech Republic.

At the Pentagon

NOTABLE EVENTS:

9:30 a.m. — The observance of the crash that killed 189 people at the Pentagon will begin at 9:30 a.m. The giant American flag that draped the side of the crash scene after the attack will be refurled. President Bush, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General Richard B. Myers, will speak at the ceremony. It will be closed to the public, but televised.