Join us for the 24th-anniversary commemoration ceremony
Thursday, September 11, 2025.
Corona Historic Civic Center (815 W 6th Street Corona, CA 92882).
Check-in begins at 5:00 AM
Reading of the names at 5:30 AM
Patriot Day - 9/11
Thursday, September 11, 2025
Remembering the Flaggs-CORONA'S Connection
Bud Flagg and Dee Embree were high school sweethearts and graduated from CORONA High School in 1956.
US Navy Rear Admiral Wilson Falor (Bud) Flagg, along with his wife, Darlene Ellen (Dee) Embree were among those on flight American Airlines Flight 77 – which crashed in the Pentagon. They have two sons, Marc and Michael, and four grandchildren, Elizabeth, Mitchell, Michael and Natalie.
We will NEVER FORGET!
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Get Your Commemortive Tshirt!
This limited edition Patriot Day is available until sold out. Get yours now before they’re gone! Shirts must be picked up at the CORONA Chamber of Commerce.
Event Itinerary
Tuesday, September 9-Placement of Flags
Assist us in placing 2,977 American flags–families encouraged
On Tuesday, September 9, at 4:00 PM at the
Corona Historic Civic Center (815 W 6th Street, Corona, CA 92882)
Volunteers will assemble each American flag with a personalized placard representing a person who lost their life that day. With over 90 people representing other countries, we ensured to place their country’s flag below the American flag. Volunteer opportunities are available.
Thursday, September 11-Day of the Event
Join us for a patriotic morning of remembrance on Thursday, September 11,
at 5:00 AM at the Corona Historic Civic Center (815 W. 6th, Street, Corona, CA 92882). We will honor the lives lost through prayer, speeches from local officials, the ringing of the BELL, and remembering our CORONA Connection to the tragic day we know as 9/11.
We will begin reading names of those who lost their lives at 5:30 AM and will be pausing for a 23-second moment of silence for each one of the aircraft crashed
American Airlines Flight 11 at 5:46 AM (8:46 AM EDT)
United Airlines Flight 175 at 6:03 AM (9:03 AM EDT)
American Airlines Flight 77 at 6:36 AM (9:36 AM EDT)
United Airlines Flight 93 at 7:03 AM (10:03 AM EDT).
Highlights of 2023's Patriot Day
