(10 Sep 2025)
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New York – 10 September 20225
1. Wide of volunteers at 9/11 Day of Service event
2. Mid of volunteers scooping rice and grains into containers for the 9/11 Day of Service
3. Mid of volunteers packing supplies during the 9/11 Day of Service event
4. Wide of volunteers preparing for the 9/11 Day of Service event in New York.
5. SOUNDBITE (English) David Paine, CEO 9/11 National Day of Service and Remembrance:
"I think one of the inspirations clearly for this experience, 9/11 day was the way our nation was right after the 9/11 attacks. You know, when we weren’t red states and blue states, we were just human beings helping one another and for me that was like the eye opening moment I guess when I realized that we’re not nearly as divided as we think we are."
6. Mid of volunteers packing meals on 9/11 Day of Service in New York
7. Mid of volunteers preparing food packages on 9/11 Day of Service
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Jay Beckoff, Volunteer:
"It’s very important to remember what happened on this day and also the fact that the world came together on this day, and I think that’s why we do this day as a day of volunteering and giving because it’s become a day where the world has come together."
9. UPSOUND (English)
"Would everyone please join me in observing a moment of silence?"
10. Wide of volunteers in green and blue shirts participating in a 9/11 Day of Service event
11. Mid of volunteers participating in a 9/11 Day of Service event, preparing meals together
12. Mid of volunteers participating in the 9/11 Day of Service event
13. Mid of volunteers
14. SOUNDBITE (English) James Lynch, Father died in the 9/11 attacks:
"I could think of no better way to honor my dad than to be here volunteering today . If he were here today, this is something that he would be doing and so us to be here in his name is just really special to all of us ."
15. Mid of volunteers in uniforms packing meals for the 9/11 Day of Service event
16. Mid of volunteers in uniform participating in a 9/11 Day of Service event
17. Mid of volunteers packing boxes labeled "Remember the Good" for 9/11 Day of Service
18. Various of boxes of meals packed for the 9/11 Day of Service event
STORYLINE:
When longtime friends David Paine and Jay Winuk set out to encourage people to take part in volunteer and service projects on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, their goal was simple: to turn a day of unimaginable tragedy into a day for doing good.
Now, as the nation prepares to mark the 24th anniversary of 9/11, that lofty mission has evolved into a national day of service where people across the country participate in projects that honor the nearly 3,000 dead.
The nationwide effort kicked off Wednesday as thousands of volunteers began assembling packaged meals for needy New Yorkers in a festive atmosphere aboard the USS Intrepid.
Teams of volunteers filled small plastic bags with various ingredients for making a kind of jambalaya, including uncooked rice, dehydrated vegetables, lentils, salt and other seasonings, as a DJ blasted upbeat tunes from the wing of an aircraft carrier-turned-museum.
The two-day event, which runs through Thursday, aims to package more than two million meals for local food banks. It is among 25 large-scale volunteer service projects being organized in some two dozen cities across the country, including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and Seattle.
Overall, 9/11 Day estimates some 30 million Americans will participate in some form with the day of service, which Congress enshrined into law in 2009.
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