Post-9/11 'Tour de Force' bikes from Boston to DC to NYC to honor terrorism victims
Thirteen years after terrorists flew hijacked commercial airliners into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, the attacks still resonate in the memories of victims’ surviving family members, first responders and others throughout the country.
Among the events scheduled Thursday to honor the memory of victims, their families and those who dealt with the disaster is the annual “Tour de Force” bicycle trip initiated in 2002 by eight New York police officers, a prosecutor from the Bronx district attorney’s office and four volunteer support personnel. This year, the group began its ride in Boston on Thursday, in honor of those killed and injured last year in the bomb attack near the Boston Marathon finish line, then will proceed to Washington, D.C., and finish Sunday at the 9/11 Memorial at the World Trade Center site in New York City, the Middletown Patch reports.
About 400 bicyclists, most of them police officers, rode off from Copley Square at about 10 a.m., the Boston Globe reports. The Daily Journal also has a story about some of the participants.
Related coverage:
New York Times (req. req.): “New York Pauses for 9/11 Anniversary”
USA Today: “13 years later, America remembers 9/11 horror”
See also:
Washington Post (reg. req.): “F-16 pilot was ready to give her life on Sept. 11”
