September 11, 2006 will mark the Fifth Anniversary of the terorrist attacks on New York and Washington. D. Challener Roe of Rough Draft has created a project called 2,996 which is described here:
I?d like 2,995 blogging volunteers to help me with a tribute to the victims of 9/11. If you?d like to participate, you?ll be assigned the name of someone who was murdered on September 11, 2001. Then on September 11, 2006 you?ll post your own tribute to that person. It can be anything you want it to be: a photo tribute, an essay, a remembrance, a poem?it?s up to you. Then link back to a page I will create which will give the names of all 2,996 victims and links to the blogs that will remember them that day.
He’s also created a website for the project. You can sign up there, or by leaving a comment on the original post at Rough Draft. So far, there are 237 comments to that post, but I have no idea how far along the project is.
And, yes, I signed up.
[...] The 2996 Project, which I wrote about in June, was created by blogger Dale Roe to remember the victims of the terrorist attacks on September 11th. Bloggers have volunteered to remember the victims in a simple way — by posting something about each person who died that day so that they are never forgotten. I volunteered as soon as I heard about the project, and my tribute is to Erica Van Acker. [...]