Politics & Government
Mayor Earling Joining Police Officer in Playing of Taps on 9/11
Tuesday's performance will take place at 7:03 a.m. at Fifth and Main in Edmonds.
To mark the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Edmonds Mayor Dave Earling will join Edmonds Police senior animal control officer Debbie Dawson at Fifth And Main in Edmonds on Tuesday morning for a performance of taps.
Both Earling and Dawson play the trumpet.
“September 11th Memorial Taps” is the nationwide effort of Bugles Across America to coordinate the performance of taps at the exact time of each of the four attacks on the United States and its citizens that fateful day.
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Earling and Dawson will perform at 7:03 a.m. PDT, which was the moment (10:03 a.m. EDT) that United Airlines Flight 93 crashed near Shanksville, PA, the fourth attack of Sept. 11.
Other police officers and firefighters will stand with Earling and Dawson in an effort to honor those lost on 9/11.