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# Walking the walk and talking the talk
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/walking-the-walk-and-talking-the-talk/
- Published: 2004-08-12T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T04:48:51.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: local, Downtown, #archive-import

*By JOHN F. MULLER Special to the Daily Press*

DOWNTOWN — For one local man, the upcoming three-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks represents more than just a day of mourning and remembrance. It’s an opportunity to heal wounds across Southern California and all of America.

Rev. Bill Minson is bringing his “We Remember Walk,” which he first orchestrated in New York and Virginia around the one-year anniversary of the attacks, to Santa Monica this fall.

The walk will be one of four held nationally, and is scheduled to take place on Sept. 12 to honor those lost on Sept. 11, 2001\. It will start at the Santa Monica Armed Services Memorial at Palisades Park — which is on Ocean Avenue, between Santa Monica Boulevard and Arizona Avenue — and finish at the end of the pier, where participants will sing songs and listen to bagpipes. The walk will begin at 9 a.m.

Minson, who lives in Santa Monica, said he hoped family members would also speak about their experiences so Santa Monicans and Southern Californians could heal the internal wounds opened by the attacks three years ago.

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to the Daily Press Rev. (Photo: John F. Muller/Special)

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 12, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/081204.pdf?ref=smdp.com)