List of Ideas for 9/11 Day of Service and Rememberance
- Recognize veterans in shelters and other establishments where they regularly attend
- Write a letter to a deployed military person
- Participate in a project listed on the website
- Ask your city which families in your community have military deployed. Work together as a community to show appreciation for a military family – block party, thank you cards, banner for the yard, treats for the family or helping with house or yard projects.
- Invite neighbors to help clean a community park and then use the opportunity to observe a moment of silence and remembrance for 9/11
- Organize a 5K run in your community and give the proceeds to your local fire or police department.
- Invite your fire and police to a block/community party.
- Adopt a local retirement home or veterans home. Use 9/11 as an opportunity to take the whole family to help clean the yard, visit, play games, entertain, and help them enjoy this day of service.
- Assemble military care packages to send to military overseas.
- Work in a community garden.
- Hold an interfaith candlelight vigil in remembrance of 9/11.
- Help students organize class projects of writing to soldiers, assembling kits, or just taking a 7-10 second moment of silence to remember 9/11 and our community first responders.
- Ask your community to do something for local fire and police and invite public to attend/help.
- Take a treat to a vet.
- Help a veteran write his story to share with his family/friends.
- Organize a block party and invite vets, military, first responders, and military families in your community to join you. Get to know them – thank them for their service.
- Tell the vet, first responder, or military person in your family thank you.
- Contact your local school, see if your family can help on the grounds or inside the school (painting, repair, yard clean-up).
- Help make videos with families of deployed military and mail them overseas.
- Assist teachers in your local school to video students saying thanks to military and send overseas. This can also be done thanking local first responders and inviting them to the class to receive the gift.
- Contact city officials and encourage them to write a proclamation in support of the 10th anniversary of 9/11, expressing thanks to military and first responders in your community.
- Encourage your employer to host a ‘thank you’ barbeque for either fire and police in your vicinity, military families in your company or community, veterans in the community, or perhaps consider allowing