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October 2006 | Online Edition
Mayor Leads 5th Year Anniversary Walk for 9-11
By Bill Brennan
Mayor Mufi Hannemann led a Walk of Remembrance around the Civic Center and part of Kakaako on the evening of September 10, 2006, as the City observed the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on America.
“We’re calling this walk ‘Honolulu Remembers . . . Never Forget’ and we hope to make it an annual event,” said Mayor Hannemann. “We are doing it to honor the memory of those people who perished in the 9/11 attacks and to recognize the first responders ¬– the police, firefighters and emergency medical technicians –who put their lives on the line every day to serve and protect the public as well as the members of the armed forces who are protecting this country.”
The public was invited to participate in the walk, which included brief ceremonies and wreath presentations at the Honolulu Police Department’s Alapai headquarters, the Honolulu Fire Department Headquarters at Queen and South streets and the Prince Kuhio Federal Building, and ended at Honolulu Hale, where a formal service was held.
Marchers gathered at the Beretania Street entrance to the HPD headquarters. After the ceremony there, the procession went along South and Alapai to HFD headquarters, then down South Street to Halekauwila to the Prince Kuhio Federal Building. The march then proceeded up Punchbowl Street to Honolulu Hale.
The program at Honolulu Hale included recognition of the Honolulu Emergency Services Department, a wreath-laying and music by the Royal Hawaiian Band. Emergency vehicles from the police fire and emergency services department will be on display.
“We planned this walk to be a solemn, nonpartisan, nonpolitical observance of the day that changed America, September 11, 2001,” said Mayor Hannemann. “No matter what people might feel about events that transpired since then, the walk is meant to remember the losses we suffered and the heroism we summoned up that day.”
“Honolulu Remembers. . . Never Forget” grew out of a new movement encouraging “freedom walks” nationwide to observe the anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
9-11 Observance Photos
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