Tag: Fresh Kills landfill
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Speaker at Lawrence 9/11 ceremony recounts volunteer efforts at Fresh Kills landfill in New York
One of Thomas Brophy’s most enduring memories of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks is the pile of shoes and the dozens of Policemen’s Benevolent Association cards that he sorted through at the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, N.Y. As the keynote speaker at Lawrence Township’s annual Sept. 11 memorial service, Brophy shared his…