SARACINI-O’NEILL 9/11 CEREMONY.
Wednesday September 11, 2024 10am.
Jackson Avenue and the Boardwalk, Border of Atlantic City and Ventnor.
Ceremony agenda:
The Atlantic County Pipes and Drums will parade past the memorial sand sculpture. It’s a patriotic setting where attendees will wave their American flags.
A massive, 30’x50′ American flag will once again be strung between Atlantic City and Ventnor Fire Department ladder trucks. This will be the backdrop to the elevated stage.
Also on the agenda:
- The American Legion Riders
- Last Salute Funeral.
- Honor Guards and Civil War Cannon.
- Sal Dupree singing National Anthem.
- Protégés will sing patriotic songs throughout ceremony.
Presentations will honor the 2,977 innocents that died that day, September 11, 2001.
Remembering the flight crews of four American and United Airlines aircraft that were hijacked.
The memorial ceremony will end with singing of Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America”.
2024 Patriots Day.
Join hundreds along the boardwalk at Jackson Ave., the border of AC and Ventnor.
Questions: Call event producer, Bob Pantalena: 609 226 7912
9/11 2024 Program
- Honor Guard and Bagpipers Arrive “343”
- Posting of Colors (Last Salute)
- National Anthem (Dupree)
- Pledge lead-in (Santoro)
- Pledge of Allegiance (Santoro)
- Welcome/Opening (Paparone)
- Invocation (MacNeill)
- Mayor introduction (Fedorko)
- Mayor of Atlantic City (Marty Small)
- Hero Award Shore Medical Center (Fedorko)
- Poem-Angeles with Wings (Dolceamore)
- Flight Heroes (Paparone)
- Musical Tribute (Bagpipers)
- Flight 11 (D’Alonzo)
- LAST SALUTE Prayer Box
Cannon Salute
o ACPD Chief Sarkos
o ACFD Chief Evans
o Tim Drew
- TAPS (ACPD/McGuigan)
- General Satterfield (Fedorko)
- Satterfield Flag Folding Presentation Last
- Salute (Chuck and Marco)
- Bagpipers Army theme song
- Bell Ceremony (O’Brien) ( ACFD-TBD)
- Lee Greenwood Lead-in (Dupree)
- God Bless the USA (Ellie Maxwell)
- Poem-I am America (Valentina Rosenfelt)
- God Bless America (Julia Valentino)
- Closing Remarks (Fedorko)
- Bagpipers and Legion Riders to sculpture
Wish I had known about it! Looks like it was a beautiful Tribute. We’ll never forget ! Our Country & the World came together during that tragic time. God Bless ! 🙏🇺🇸
I was on an airplane during that tragic day flying into New York City. It was the worst day of my life.
The fact that the Mayor of Atlantic City joked about his knees hurting and playing basketball was an absolute disgrace.
Once again, the Mayor of Atlantic City made the event about himself, and not about the beautiful ceremony that so many people work tirelessly for 365 days a year.
God bless America.
Absolutely disgraceful that Marty Small was permitted to speak at such a sacred event.
He certainly got the attention of the crowd when he pranced into the event 15 minutes late in his bright suit. Let’s thank the organizers for not having a chair for this slime bag on the podium.
Small is as his name implies, just another on
a long list of despicable AC politicians. Absolutely no respect for anything/anyone that is pro American.