September 9, 2022
By: Dwayne Page
Country music star Aaron Tippin will make an appearance at Sunday’s local 9/11 remembrance at the County Complex
Tippin performed at the first memorial service here shortly after the 9/11 tragedy 21 years ago debuting his song “Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly” and he returned for the 10-year local memorial observance in 2011 where he again performed the hit song.
Tippin and his family reside in DeKalb County.
This Patriot Day event will begin at 4 p.m. at the County Complex to remember the lives lost on September 11, 2001 and to honor first responders for what they do in our communities. Cody Purvis will also be performing.
Patriot Day occurs on September 11 each year in memory of nearly 3,000 innocent victims who died in the terrorist attacks 21 years ago. On that day, 2,977 people were killed, 19 hijackers committed murder-suicide, and more than 6,000 others were injured.
Two planes were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon at Washington, DC and a fourth plane crashed in a field at Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Please join in this local observance to remember the men and women who lost their lives.