OFFICIAL 9/11 DAY STATEMENT by The Honorable Arthur L. Burnett, Sr.
In Advance of 9/11 DAY, National Day of Service and Remembrance, Patriot Day on September 11, 2022, by America’s 1st African American Federal Magistrate Judge and Global Youth Justice, Inc. Co-Founder Arthur L. Burnett, Sr. ; U.S. Army Veteran; Senior Judge: Superior Court District of Columbia; Special Assistant, Attorney General Robert Kennedy; Deputy Chief, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice; Civil Rights Legend, Honorable ARTHUR L. BURNETT, SR. Approaching nearly 90 years of age, Arthur L. Burnett, Sr. is busier than ever, and is Co-Founder and Board Vice President of Global Youth Justice, Inc., and Co-Chairperson with Global Youth Justice, Inc. Co-Founder and CEO Scott Bernard Peterson for Global Youth Justice’s 2nd Annual 9/11 DAY Flag of Honor Across America Memorials on Sunday, September 11, 2022, the Largest National Multi-Site Project on 9/11 DAY of National Service and Remembrance.
OPENING STATEMENT
On 9/11 DAY, National Day of Service and Remembrance, Patriot Day on September 11, 2022, by America’s 1st African American Federal Magistrate Judge; U.S. Army Veteran; Senior Judge: Superior Court District of Columbia; Special Assistant, Attorney General Robert Kennedy; Deputy Chief, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice; Civil Rights Legend, Honorable ARTHUR L. BURNETT, SR. Judge Burnett is Co-Founder and Board Vice President of Global Youth Justice, Inc., and Co-Chairperson with Global Youth Justice, Inc. Co-Founder and CEO Scott Bernard Peterson for Global Youth Justice’s 2nd Annual 9/11 DAY Flag of Honor Across America Memorials on Sunday, September 11, 2022, the Largest National Multi-Site Project on 9/11 DAY of National Service and Remembrance.
The 2nd Annual 9/11 DAY Flag of Honor Across America Memorials, co-led by Volunteer Youth and Justice Involved Youth, with Adults in 75 USA Communities on Sunday, September 11, 2022, the follow-up to the Inaugural Launch of a new type of 9/11 DAY MEMORIAL designed by Global Youth Justice, Inc. CEO/Co-Founder Scott Bernard Peterson for the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 Day on September 11, 2021, when 60 USA Communities and 100’s of Local Partners, filled all 60 9/11 DAY Flag of Honor Across America Memorial Slots in the middle of a Global Pandemic, and 5 months before 21st Anniversary on 9/11/22, and Virtual not allowed, that day arrived and the sun rose that September 11 morning, so did more than 10,000+ youth and adults from 100’s of Communities in 60 USA Memorial Locations, making it the largest national multi-site 9/11 DAY Project on the 20th Anniversary.
The U.S. Federal Government had selected the new 9/11 DAY Memorial by Global Youth Justice, Inc. as only 1 of 5 new 9/11 DAY Federally Sponsored Projects, the only national level, and 1st ever new 9/11 DAY Memorial, to Launch that Special and Solemn 20th Anniversary, with Federal Agency AmeriCorps as the Co-Sponsor, with Global Youth Justice, Inc. and it’s 1st 9/11 DAY Flag of Honor Across America Memorials in 60 USA Communities, with each Hosting Memorials for 65 Different Victims, Heroes, and Responders, who died on September 11, 2001, as we all kept America’s Solemn Vow to NEVER FORGET. In Honor and Memory, the Honorable Arthur L. Burnett, Sr., Co-Chairperson and Co-Founder, 2nd Annual 9/11 DAY Flag of Honor Across America Memorials by Global Youth Justice, Inc
Public Statement by
Honorable Arthur L. Burnett, Sr.
Co-Founder and Board Vice President
GLOBAL YOUTH JUSTICE, INC.
Co-Chairperson of Global Youth Justice’s
2nd ANNUAL 9/11 DAY Flag of Honor Across America Memorials
75 Memorials in Memory and Honor of 65 Different Victims, Heroes, and Responders
Sunday, September 11, 2022
WEBSITES
https://www.GlobalYouthJustice.org/news/9-11-Day/
https://www.GlobalYouthJustice.org/
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Biographical Sketch of Judge Arthur Burnett, Sr.
By Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit
https://dcchs.org/sb_pdf/burnett-bio/
Background
The Honorable Arthur L. Burnett, Sr. is Co-Founder and Board Vice President of Global Youth Justice, Inc., and Co-Chairperson for it’s 2nd Annual 9/11 DAY Flag of Honor Across America Memorials in 75 Communities in Memory and Honor of 65 Victims, Heroes, and Responders. Sunday, September 11, 2022 is Patriot Day and a National Day of Service and Remembrance. Also called 9/11 DAY, it and Martin Luther King Day are the only two (2) Days of National Service authorized by the U.S. Congress and President.
The 2nd Annual 9/11 DAY Flag of Honor Across America Memorials is administered by Global Youth Justice, Inc. and co-sponsor Federal AmeriCorps 9/11 Day of National Service, which they Launched the Inaugural Year on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 DAY on Saturday, September 11, 2021, which immediately became one of the largest National 9/11 Day Projects, and 1st Co-Led Youth and Adult Memorial since 9/11 DAY was Designated a National Day of Service of Service by U.S. Congress and the American President.
Public Statement by
The Honorable Arthur L. Burnett, Sr.
Co-Chair, 9/11 DAY Flag of Honor Across America Memorials on September 11, 2022
September 11th is Patriot Day and a National Day of Service and Remembrance. On September 11, 2022. Global Youth Justice, Inc. and our co-partner Federal Agency AmeriCorps, will be joined by 75 communities across America who have been selected to lead the 2nd Annual 9/11 DAY Flag of Honor Across America Memorials. Hundreds of adults and youth in these 75 communities are planning memorials, each in memory of 65 different victims, responders, and heroes who died on 9/11/01, or after from injuries, diseases, and other causes.
These 75 communities, and the 100’s of civic-minded volunteer adults and youth organizers, are making it possible for thousands of adults and youth on September 11, 2022, to honor our nation’s promise to NEVER FORGET the victims, responders, and heroes who lost their lives as a result of the deadliest terrorist attack in history. On September 11, 2022, we especially remember the families still grieving over the loss of a loved one(s) on and after 9/11/01, as a result of that tragic day. From the hundreds of volunteer organizers, to thousands gathering at these 75 public memorials, the 9/11 DAY Flag of Honor Across America Memorials is our contribution to the promise that the Victims, Heroes, and Responders will Never be Forgotten.
On September 11, 2001, 2,977 men, women, and children, were killed in a tragedy involving four hijacked planes and terrorist crimes in New York City, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. They included victims, as well as responders and heroes who gave their lives trying to save as many as possible. Also remembered are six victims from the February 26, 1993, World Trade Center bombing, and 4,313 more who died from 9/11-related illnesses, suicides, and injuries from the day after September 11, 2001 to March 31, 2022.
The second 9/11 DAY Flag of Honor Across America Memorials on September 11, 2022, extends beyond those honored in the first, from everyone who lost their lives on September 11, 2001, to include nearly 5,000 more who lost their lives after September 11, 2001. As a result of Federal law and other concerns, the Federal government will not release the names of those who died following September 11, 2001, only the monthly death totals. However, more than twenty 9/11-related organizations are assisting Global Youth Justice, and we have identified nearly 1,000 to be remembered by name.
Instead of 75 communities reading thousands of names at each site, this project for the first time in America uniquely divides the names among them, thus far assigning each some 65 9/11 victims and heroes who lost their lives, and thus these local memorials are in their memory. Beyond saying the names, each community is taking a deeper, more personal approach, using websites provided by Global Youth Justice, Inc. to share multiple details about each victim, of which the names of family members names are the most important. All 75 memorial sites have 65 different names of the victims, heroes, and responders, except for the eight children who tragically lost their lives on that horrific day, who are being remembered at all 75 memorials.
When the terrorists crashed the hijacked planes into New York City’s Twin Towers on that infamous September 11, the flames caused the steel to melt in both towers at ground zero, leaving no human remains for most families to bury, as was the case with Flight 93 in Pennsylvania and the Pentagon. Therefore, it is important to remember those lost by not only reading their names, but sharing where they are remembered in the North or South Pool at the 9/11 Memorial in New York City and the number of the panel on which their names are etched in bronze, and reciting any additional matters of significance, such as family member names. For many, a picture to print out and hold up is available, for others, only a name.
Sites should find a free public location to hold the 9/11 Day Flag of Honor Memorial and recruit volunteers of all ages to take part in the remembrance on Sunday, September 11, 2022. Global Youth Justice, Inc. and AmeriCorps will provide two (2) free 5-foot 9/11 Day Flags of Honor to be raised on a flagpole, hand pole, or otherwise displayed. Global Youth Justice, Inc. also provides the 75 official sites their assigned names, and provides website links to three Memorial websites, to find 5 to 15 personal details to be read for each of the 9/11 Day victims and heroes to be honored.
This will be the largest National Multi-Site Coordinated 9/11 Day Project in America in Remembrance of the 21st Anniversary of that Tragic Day on September 11th, 2022, and will involve both Youth Volunteers and Youth involved with the Juvenile Justice System – both of whom were not born by September 11th, 2001. Global Youth Justice, Inc. CEO Scott Peterson designed the 9/11 Flag of Honor Across America Memorials Project in 2020, with a special focus on involving a wide range of youth.
This new memorial was selected to launch as 1 of only 5 new Federal Projects on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 Day on September 11, 2021. In 2022, the 9/11 DAY Flag of Honor Across America Memorials adds 20 Demonstration Sites, which includes a 2-Day Community Service-Learning Approach, where volunteer youth and justice system involved youth attend a 4-hour 9/11 Day interactive learning project, followed by a 2nd day where they participate on September 11, 2022 in the 2nd Annual 9/11 Flag of Honor Across America Memorials.
I’m very proud to serve as Honorary Chairperson for our Global Youth Justice, Inc. Inaugural Launch of the 1st 9/11 DAY Flag of Honor Across America Memorials on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 DAY on Saturday, September 11, 2021. The U.S. Federal Government selecting the Design by Global Youth Justice, Inc. for a new annual Youth and Adult Co-Led 9/11 DAY Memorial, and as 1 of only 5 new federal co-sponsored and co-funded to Launch on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 DAY, was humbling.
At Global Youth Justice, in all our decisions with the 9/11 DAY Flag of Honor Across America Memorials, was to keep two things front and center. Never Forget the Victims and Heroes, and Honoring their Memory, and Remembering their Families, their grief, and unimaginable suffering.
We hope, even if for a moment, by us mobilizing 10,000+ Adults and Youth in our Global Youth Justice Network to Honor their loves ones across America, the families and friends of all those whose lives were cut short, and in such a horrific manner, know America kept it’s promise to Never Forget on that painful day.
Honorable Arthur L. Burnett, Sr.
Co-Chairperson, 2nd Annual 9/11 DAY Flag of Honor Across America Memorials
Co-Founder and Board Vice President, Global Youth Justice, Inc.