San Angelo 9/11 Memorial Service Tuesday

SAN ANGELO, TX -- The San Angelo Fire Department is hosting a 9/11 memorial service at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 11, at the city’s 9/11 monument.

According to a press release from the City of San Angelo, the public is invited to attend and to remember and honor those who perished during the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The monument is near Celebration Bridge along the Concho River and adjacent to the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, 1 Love St.

The program will feature a keynote address from Col. Ricky Mills, commander of the 17th Training Wing at Goodfellow Air Force Base.

Special comments will also be offered by Rosendo “Rosey” Velez, a New York City first-responder on 9/11, along with his wife Maria and daughter Mira Velez.  Last year, Rosey Velez contributed a steel artifact from the World Trade Center as the centerpiece for the monument’s repair and restoration. The monument was vandalized and the original piece of World Trade Center steel stolen in 2016.

The memorial was dedicated on Sept. 8, 2003, in honor of those who died in the attacks. San Angelo’s is one of a few memorials in Texas that includes a piece of steel from “ground zero” in New York City.