Parent Appalled by 9/11 Lesson for Fourth Graders

Showing fourth graders graphic images of the 9/11 attacks was inappropriate, says a Lehigh Valley parent

"Teach Your Children Well." We hope that our educators always have that in mind when they teach our children. But educators in the Easton Area School District failed regarding how some children were taught about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on America. Yes, everyone in our country needs to know -- and never forget -- the brutal attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans, destroyed the World Trade Center towers in New York City and brought our country to its knees. Sept. 11 will always be a day on which we should mourn the loss of life and remember the devastation that shook America to its core. But do children who are 9 or 10 years old need to watch the horrific highlights of the attack: the smoldering towers, airplanes crashing into …

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Tell Us: Will You Visit WTC or Flight 93 Memorials?

More and more people are visiting the Flight 93 Memorial and the two new World Trade Center towers that are being built in lower Manhattan

  More than 200,000 people are expected to visit the Flight 93 National Memorial this year - almost double the number in 2011, according to an Associated Press report. New construction at the site is scheduled to begin next year. United Flight 93 was traveling from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco when it was hijacked by four terrorists in 2001. The 9/11 Commission says terrorists likely aimed to crash the plane into the White House or the U.S. Capitol, but passngers fought back and the jet went down in a field near Shanksville, Pa. Will you visit any of the 9/11 sites? Tell us in the comments section below. At the new multi billion-dollar World Trade Center, two towers are nearing completion and once again dominate the lower Manhattan …

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September 11, Ten Years Later

Bach Choir of Bethlehem Joined in Musical Observance of 9/11 Anniversary

Combined choirs performed in Lower Manhattan to promote peace and reconciliation.

Hope. Peace. Love. Confidence in things eternal. When the Bach Choir of Bethlehem participated in a series of concerts in New York City on Friday in observance of the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the message of the music was very clear. The intent of the project was to promote reconciliation, and to demonstrate the power that music has to heal, unify and uplift. Every piece of music included in the programs for eight one-hour concerts and a culminating two-and-a-half hour concert by massed choir—all presented free to the public--was carefully chosen to express themes of reassurance, comfort, endurance and faith. Universal messages were found in the Requiems by Johannes Brahms and Gabriel Fauré, written in the late 1800’s; in the Negro …

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September 11, Ten Years Later

Lehigh Students Reflect on September 11 Anniversary

University replays CNN coverage of terrorist attacks, as part of its remembrance.

The image on the television screen was one that no one believed they would ever see. The World Trade Center towers were on fire. Lehigh University freshman Jordan Smith, 18, from Nazareth, was watching. "It's so surreal to watch everything happen," Smith said. "You know it is and what is going to happen but they (news reporters) don't." As part of the events commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on America, Lehigh University was airing CNN's coverage that morning of the terrorist attacks as they took place. The university had planned a day's worth of 9/11 anniversary events at Lamberton Hall, including an “eyewitness account of the Pentagon tragedy," presented by former Lehigh employee Kim Plyler. At 9:28 a.m., …

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Cedar Crest Bible Fellowship Church Honors First Responders

Cedar Crest Bible Fellowship Church holds 10th anniversary memorial service for those who died during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

As people entered Cedar Crest Bible Fellowship Church in Salisbury Township, past the mournful sound of bagpipes of the Liberty High School Grenadier Band playing outside, they spoke about where they were that day 10 years ago. In the back of the hall, a woman silently wept. A half-hour before the church's 10th anniversary memorial service of Sept. 11 was set to start, the cavernous church was almost filled to capacity. The service, called “Never Forget…Hope," began solemnly with presentation of the colors -- two flags inscribed with the names of victims and first responders who died. A prayer was offered and congregants joined in heartfelt renditions of “Amazing Grace,” “The Star-Spangled Banner” and “God Bless America.” Then a video …

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