Good morning, Washington. Even if you don’t plan to do anything with your day like attending a memorial event or volunteering, it’s rather difficult to forget what day it is today — every time you see the date Sept. 11 on a credit card slip or memo, you’re going to be reminded. The Post has a big interactive feature up on the creation of the Pentagon Memorial, which is scheduled to open in one year and so will be the first Sept. 11 memorial in the country. Gothamist has a list of memorial events today.

Missing Student Recounts Ordeal: The WaPo has all the harrowing details of Julian McCormick’s eight days spent trapped in his car at the bottom of a ravine in Prince George’s County. The 18-year-old Bowie State University said he survived by eating a fish he caught with his hands and using his shoe to drink water from the creek. Thankfully, no one has come forward to reveal that they wore a fake bear suit to frighten him or put him in up in a hotel for a few nights, so we’re betting even money that nearby Discovery Channel HQ is buzzing this morning to offer this kid a TV show.

Rhee Will Decide Fate of Senior Project: Chancellor Michelle Rhee will make the ultimate decision in a controversy between a group of parents of seniors at the unique School Without Walls high school on the GW campus, and the school’s principal. The principal had ordered that a 1 credit course facilitating a “senior project” would be mandatory for all seniors at the school this year, but parents worried that their students would have trouble completing all their coursework to graduate took the issue to Rhee, the Examiner explains.

Briefly Noted: E-Z Pass glitch caused thousands of false tickets … Vandalism suspected at Vietnam Memorial … Freed Wilson scholar back to work … Burglars targeting Logan Circle, again, this time in daylight … 25-year-old man fatally shot yesterday in Southeast.

This Day in DCist: Last year we noted the arrival of Tom Cruise to town and three years ago we marked the Sept. 11 anniversary by sharing some links with you.

Photo by Samer Farha

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