Tag: World Trade Center
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Monroe remembers sacrifices made on 21st anniversary of 9/11 terrorist attacks
Monroe Township joined communities across the nation to honor the nearly 3,000 people lost from the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil. The township remembered 21 years late at Memorial Tree Park on Prospect Plains Road on Sept. 11. “On this National Day of Service and remembrance we honor the 9/11 victims, survivors and those…
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Princeton 9/11 ceremony honors those who passed and those struggling in the aftermath
Communities across the country honored those lost and still suffering from the 9/11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people 21 years ago on Sept. 11. On Sept. 11, Americans remembered the attacks that killed people in New York, Shanksville, Pa. and Washington D.C. when four passenger airliner planes were hijacked by al-Queda, an Islamic…
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Pennington School displays portion of steel from World Trade Center
A steel piece from the World Trade Center has made its way to The Pennington School, where the steel enclosed in a clear case will be on display at the school for the next year. The steel portion that had been recovered from the World Trade Center site was delivered to the school on the morning…
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Remember: Steel artifact from World Trade Center driven to Hopewell Township 11 years ago
Hopewell Township invites the public to bring a lawn chair for its annual remembrance of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. This year’s ceremony will begin at 11 a.m. on Sept. 10 at Woolsey Park, 221 Washington Crossing Pennington Road, Titusville. Eleven years ago – Aug. 16, 2011 – a 10-ton steel artifact from the…
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Terrorist attacks on Twin Towers remembered as the country honors 20th anniversary of Sept. 11
Ed Lazarus worked in the financial department of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. “On the morning of Sept. 11, I was sitting with my closest colleagues and dear friends in our office, Joe and Barry, on the 64th floor of One World Trade Center (North Tower), when approximately at 8:45 a.m.…
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South River volunteer fire department will build 9/11 memorial this summer
SOUTH RIVER – To honor 343 New York City firefighters who died during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the South River Exempt Firemen’s Association will build a 9/11 memorial. On Sept. 11, 2020, the South River Fire Department’s (SRFD) South River Exempt Firemen’s Association announced that it obtained one of the few remaining pieces…
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South Brunswick remembers its residents lost on Sept. 11, 2001
SOUTH BRUNSWICK – On Sept. 11, 2001, three South Brunswick residents left the township to work in New York City. They, along with a South Brunswick High School graduate who was living in New York at the time, never returned home because of the terrorist attacks. Kenneth Charles Ledee, 38, of Monmouth Junction, was an…
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South Brunswick remembers its residents lost on Sept. 11, 2001
SOUTH BRUNSWICK – On Sept. 11, 2001, three South Brunswick residents left the township to work in New York City. They, along with a South Brunswick High School graduate who was living in New York at the time, never returned home because of the terrorist attacks. The South Brunswick Police Department provided residents with a…
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Survivor of Sept. 11 terrorist attack describes ordeal for Princeton audience
Michael Hingson needed to escape the north tower of the World Trade Center on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, a life-or-death mission that would have been harrowing for anyone even if he had eyes that could see. But born blind, he managed to get from the 78th floor to safety with the help of…
