The beloved Daffodil Project, which plants daffodil bulbs around the five boroughs each year to honor those killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, doubled in size this year to include people killed by COVID, reports Anna Quinn for Prospect Heights Patch.
Flatbush Avenue will be filled with 18,000 daffodils next spring to honor those we lost to COVID.
More than eight million daffodil bulbs have been planted through the Daffodil Project.
One of the defense lawyers for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed has asked the judge in the Guantánamo pre-trial hearings, U.S. Air Force Colonel Matthew N. McCall, to allow Mohammed to hear secret testimony from his former interrogators who waterboarded him.
At stake is the question of whether Mohammed was coerced into admissions that may be used as evidence in the trial. The admissions in question came years after the waterboarding. The defense argues that the defendants are afraid of future torture.
One of the prosecutors, Maj. Jackson T. Hall, USAF, told the court that previous judges have all barred defendants from attending classified pretrial hearings, requesting that McCall does the same, reports Carol Rosenberg for the New York Times.
Families of those killed in the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in Belle Harbor Queens on November 12, 2001 gathered in the rain to remember their loved ones.
Two hundred and sixty-five people were killed in the crash. The plane was headed to the Dominican Republic and crashed into a neighborhood already devastated by the 9/11 terrorist attacks two months before.
Belkis Lora, who lost her brother Jose in the crash, told Maya Rajamani of NY1, “To come to this site and have this memorial for our loved ones, it means a lot for the families. It means their life, we still remember them. Their memory is still alive. Just to see my brother’s name there, it brings me comfort.”
