Jon recently addressed this on one of the radio station interviews he did. I can't give you an exact quote, but he basically said that he didn't want to be part of the September 11 rememberance stuff because it could be seen as a publicity stunt.

As far as the assinine comment earlier about Jon's performance of America the Beautiful being Oscar-worthy, perhaps the person who has made it hasn't considered that the WTC was minutes from Jon's house... that he lost people he knew in the attack, that his children have friends who lost their parents. We saw the smoke on TV. He saw it floating over his house. He could SMELL it. We heard about victims. He KNEW them.

It's almost amusing that Jon has been singled out as the person using 9-11 to make himself more popular. I suppose Richie didn't play on America the Beautiful or take part in the Tribute to Heroes or film a spot for the Red Cross? Narrowing it down to Jon when Richie was there too just shows that *some* people on this board are very anti-Jon. Therefore, it's really hard to take anything said in that post seriously.

Becky