Community members are invited to attend a special ceremony commemorating the 21st anniversary of 9/11. The event will be held at 9 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 11 at the Santa Barbara Courthouse Sunken Gardens.

Undersheriff Bonner, along with the Sheriff’s Office Honor Guard, will join local dignitaries and representatives from area fire departments and other agencies for the second annual 9/11 Flag of Honor Across America Memorial. The Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse (CADA) Teen Court program was selected as 1 of 60 participants across America to lead this National 9/11 Day Remembrance Project.

Ceremonies in the selected 60 communities will come together to never forget the 2,983 women, men and children who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001, and in the Feb. 26, 1993 World Trade Center Bombing. Each of the 60 inaugural communities will remember 50 of the souls lost by reading their names and short biographical information for each.

During the ceremony, members of the CADA Teen Court program will present the county with the official 9/11 Flag of Honor, which includes the names of all victims who lost their lives on these two tragic days. Each of the 9/11 flags were previously flown at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, which is located on the sacred ground where the Twin Towers once stood.   

This will be the largest nationally coordinated 9/11 Day project in America in remembrance of the 21st anniversary of 9/11. The event is led by Global Youth Justice, Inc., and is sponsored and funded by the federal agency AmeriCorps and Global Youth Justice, Inc.

Anyone wishing to attend the local event is urged to bring a folding chair or blanket, as seating will be limited.