Patriot Day
In the United States of America (USA) is since 2010 annually on 11 September of the Patriot Day in memory of the 2,001 in the September 11 attacks committed as a quiet holiday murdered 2,977 people. Before that, the day, which has received much attention nationwide since 2002, had different administrative and legal bases, in which form it is celebrated and observed by the state and federal authorities.
Type of Holiday: National Day of Service and Remembrance
The US holiday "National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day" is comparable to the naming and the type of collective memory .
See also
- Memorials to the victims of the attacks - 9/11 memorials in the USA (these are the names of the attack sites)
- National September 11 Memorial and Museum , NYC, NY
- Flight 93 National Memorial , near Shanksville , Pennsylvania (National Memorial)
- Pentagon Memorial (at the Pentagon in Arlington near Washington DC)
- Tribute in Light , at the WTC (temporary, floodlight in NYC)
- Not to be confused with Patriots 'Day or officially Patriots' Day in Massachusetts and Wisconsin or Maine , which has been set on the third Monday in April in these states since 1969 and on the anniversary of the fighting in Lexington and Concord remembered in the American Revolutionary War on April 19, 1775 .
Web links
Commons : Patriot Day - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
