9/11 Wreath-Laying Ceremony To Be Held In Harford County

HARFORD COUNTY, MD — County officials will recognize 9/11 on Thursday with a wreath-laying ceremony starting at 8:30 a.m.

The Sept. 11 ceremony will be held outside the Harford County emergency services facility at 2220 Ady Road in Forest Hill. It will honor the first responders, military and others who lost their lives in the 9/1 terrorist attack.

Everyone is welcome to attend the ceremony.

More than 2,700 people died at the World Trade Center alone on 9/11, including the passengers of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175. Another 44 died on United Airlines Flight 93 near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Staff Sgt. Willie Q. Troy, 51, who lived at Aberdeen Proving Ground, was among the more than 100 military and civilian personnel who died at the Pentagon. His wife worked at the proving ground, and he worked at the Pentagon, getting up at 4:15 a.m. daily so he could take the MARC train to work, according to the Pentagon Memorial. Troy was at the Pentagon when American Airlines Flight 77 crashed at 9:37 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001. All 64 people aboard perished.

Joseph V. Maggitti, 49, of Abingdon, died in the attack on the World Trade Center. He was there for a business meeting at the headquarters of his employer, Marsh McLennan, which created a memorial for the 358 employees lost that day. It took a week for Maggitti's body to be recovered, according to the Archdiocese of Baltimore, which reported he had been on the 94th floor of the North Tower. His daughter was a freshman at the John Carroll School at the time.