{"id":11379,"date":"2025-08-27T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/?p=11379"},"modified":"2025-08-27T12:29:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T16:29:18","slug":"11379-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/11379-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Patriot Day Observance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>2025 Patriot Day Observance \u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11245 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/DSC_0236-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"An American flag is hoisted above the Columbus City Hall Plaza with a crowd of community members and public safety officers standing at attention in anticipation for the start of the annual 9-11 remembrance ceremony. Public safety officers are dressed in their ceremonial uniforms. \" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/DSC_0236-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/DSC_0236-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/DSC_0236-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/DSC_0236-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/DSC_0236-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/DSC_0236-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/DSC_0236-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/DSC_0236-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/DSC_0236-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/h2>\n<p>The City of Columbus will observe the 24th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on our nation with a remembrance ceremony on Thursday, September 11, 2025. The ceremony will take place on the Columbus City Hall Plaza and will begin at approximately 8:30 a.m. The observance is open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony will include a moment of silence followed by a dispatch broadcast to honor the first responders and citizens who lost their lives following the attacks at the World Trade Center, Pentagon and the passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 which crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Nearly 3000 people lost their lives during the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The Columbus Police and Fire Color Guard will take part in the ceremony and Columbus Fire Department officials are scheduled to speak. In addition, a traditional Fire Service bell ceremony will take place to honor the fallen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025 Patriot Day Observance \u00a0 The City of Columbus will observe the 24th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on our nation with a remembrance ceremony on Thursday, September 11, 2025. The ceremony will take place on the Columbus City Hall Plaza and will begin at approximately 8:30 a.m. The observance is open  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 16:49:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}