Fall River to mark 20th anniversary of 9/11 with ceremony at Battleship Cove

To mark the 20th-year anniversary of the nation’s most deadly attack, the U.S.S. Massachusetts Memorial Committee, Inc. will host a Rite of Reflection Memorial Service at Battleship Cove on Saturday, September 11th, 2021.

According to the U.S.S Massachusetts Memorial Committee, on July 05, 2002, Governor Jane Swift approved a bill to erect a memorial for the ninety-four Commonwealth victims of the September 11th terrorist attacks. The Act, House, No. 4974, was proposed by former Fall River State Representative Robert Correia who passed away earlier this year and endorsed by then Speaker of the House Thomas Finneran and former Fall River State Senator Joan Menard. The Act provides that the U.S.S. Massachusetts Memorial Committee, Inc. shall establish an official state memorial at Battleship Cove to honor the Commonwealth victims of the September 11, 2001, attack on America.

The ceremony will begin at 8:30 a.m. at the 9/11 memorial in front of the main entrance to Battleship Cove. The ceremony will include a wreath-laying, 21-gun salute, and participation from local police and fire departments honor guards.

The U.S.S Massachusetts Memorial Committee, Inc. at Battleship Cove is a non-profit educational corporation for the preservation of the five National Historic Landmark naval vessels and Massachusetts’ official memorials for Commonwealth citizens who lost their lives in World War II, the Korean, Vietnam and Persian Gulf Wars, and the September 11, 2001, attack on America.