The French will Never Forget

10 years ago to this day, the country's largest terrorist attack wiped out thousands of Americans in less than an hour. I ask for your prayers for those family members, loved ones, co-workers, and friends who passed on one decade ago. The world trade center use to be a place of death, silence and grief, and now will forever be more remembered as a place of joy and life as children's laughter fills the air with the surrounding trees and flowers. It takes a special kind of country to cope with this kind of attack, but it takes an even more special country to come together in unison to create something so positive that once was so negative. We finally have closure. God Bless. The U.S. will not be alone in commemorating the tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S. Memorial services are scheduled around the world, including in France. Many houses of worship will hold special events throughout France. Major print and broadcast media in France are publishing or airing special memorial programs. The day will not pass by unnoticed abroad. The main event of the day is called “The French Will Never Forget" and it occurs at Palais de Chaillot (Trocadéro) opposite the Eiffel Tower. Thousands are expected to turn out for a commemoration ceremony and vigil presented by a Franco-American nonprofit association with the same name. Charles Rivkin, U.S. ambassador to France, and François Delattre, French ambassador to the U.S., will dedicate the memorial event. A documentary film will also be produced in conjunction with the activities. Replicas of the two New York World Trade Center towers will be constructed at the Palais de Chaillot, each ten stories tall. A large white banner will be draped down the length of each replica tower; one lists names of those who died in the attacks and the other contains thousands of messages and signatures collected in the U.S. and elsewhere. Special U.S. and French flags made by the group will fly over the memorial. White was asked to be worn to the memorial as a sign of peace. Today's main event is to be from 2:15-4:30pm with the reveal of the memorial to be at the time the towers collapsed: which was at 9:59am EST. At 9pm there is to be a concert and laser light show on the Eiffel Tower.