WAYNE, NJ — Local officials, first responders and neighbors are preparing to remember the Wayne residents who died in the September 11 terrorist attacks and commemorate the thousands of lives lost that day.
The township’s annual September 11th Remembrance Service will be held on Wednesday, September 11th, beginning at 6 p.m. It will be held at the Wayne Township 9/11 Memorial Park, located at City Hall next to the library.
Completed in 2008, this permanent memorial is dedicated to the township residents who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001.
The community will remember and honor these seven men: Robert Deraney, Jean Caviasco DePalma, Daniel Afflitto, Paul Acquaviva, Barry Glick, Leo Roberts and Gregg John Froehner. Froehner was a Wayne Police Department dispatcher and Port Authority Police Officer.
On September 11 alone, over 2,700 people died at the World Trade Center, including passengers on American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175. Another 184 were killed when American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon in Washington, DC, and 44 people died on United Airlines Flight 93 near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Most of the victims of 9/11 were from either New York or New Jersey. Many who lived across the Hudson River from the World Trade Center can remember the horror of watching the Twin Towers collapse from their homes in Hoboken and Jersey City.
