Remembering 9/11 Victims From Massachusetts 20 Years Later

MASSACHUSETTS — Anyone older than 25 in Massachusetts likely remembers where they were on 9/11.

Americans felt a collective trauma as first one and then another plane flew into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001. As the truth dawned on people watching from their TVs that America was under attack, another plane took aim at the Pentagon. A fourth was brought down in a field in Pennsylvania in a final act of heroism by passengers who realized their flight had been hijacked.

Nearly 3,000 Americans, including 206 from Massachusetts, were killed in the suicide attacks carried out by 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaida.

On the 20th anniversary of the attacks, our state remembers and mourns:

• Dave Bernard, 57, Chelmsford
• Anna Williams Allison, 48, Stoneham
• Barbara Jean (Bobbi) Arestegui, 38, Marstons Mills
• Myra Joy Aronson, 50, Charlestown
• Garnet Edward (Ace) Bailey, 54, Lynnfield
• Christine Barbuto, 32, Brookline
• Mark Lawrence Bavis, 31, West Newton
• Graham Andrew Berkeley, 37, Boston
• Kelly Ann Booms, 24, Brookline
• John Brett Cahill, 56, Wellesley
• Christoffer Mikael Carstanjen, 33, Turner Falls
• Neilie Anne Heffernan Casey, 32, Wellesley
• Jeffrey W. Coombs, 42, Abington
• John (Jay) J. Corcoran III, 43, Norwell
• Tara Kathleen Creamer, 30, Worcester
• Patrick Currivan, 52, Winchester
• Capt. Gerald Francis Deconto, 44, Sandwich
• David DiMeglio, 22, Wakefield
• Donald Americo DiTullio, 49, Peabody
• Peter el-Hachem, 40, Tewksbury
• Paige Farley-Hackel, 46, Newton
• Alexander Milan Filipov, 70, Concord
• Paul Friedman, 45, Belmont
• Karleton D.B. Fyfe, 31, Brookline
• Peter Alan Gay, 54, Tewksbury
• Linda M. George, 27, Westborough
• Edmund Glazer, 41, Wellesley
• Lynn Catherine Goodchild, 25, Attleboro
• Peter Morgan Goodrich, 33, Sudbury
• Lisa Reinhart Fenn Gordenstein, 41, Needham
• Douglas A. Gowell, 52, Methuen
• Maile Rachel Hale, 26, Cambridge
• Christine Lee Hanson, 2, Groton
• Peter Hanson, 32, Groton
• Sue Kim Hanson, 35, Groton
• Eric Samadikan Hartono, 20, Boston
• James E. Hayden, 47, Westford
• Robert Jay Hayes, 38, Amesbury
• Edward (Ted) R. Hennessy Jr., 35, Belmont
• Todd Russell Hill, 34, Boston
• Cora Hidalgo Holland, 52, Sudbury
• Herbert W. Homer, 48, Milford
• John Nicholas Humber Jr., 60, Newton
• Robert Adrien Jalbert, 61, Swampscott
• John Charles Jenkins, 45, Cambridge
• Charles E. Jones, 48, Bedford
• Robin Kaplan, 33, Westborough
• Ralph Francis Kershaw, 52, Manchester-by-the-Sea
• Brian Kinney, 29, Lowell
• Judy Larocque, 50, Framingham
• Natalie Janis Lasden, 46, Peabody
• Daniel C. Lewin, 31, Brookline
• Marianne MacFarlane, 34, Revere
• Susan A. MacKay, 44, Westford
• Karen A. Martin, 40, Danvers
• Joseph Mathai, 49, Arlington
• Michael Gregory McGinty, 42, Foxborough
• Deborah Medwig, 46, Dedh
• Christopher D. Mello, 25, Boston
• Carlos Alberto Montoya, 36, Bellmont
• Antonio Jesus Montoya Valdes, 46, East Boston
• Laura Lee Morabito, 34, Framingham
• Christopher M. Morrison, 34, Charlestown
• Mildred Naiman, 81, Andover
• Kathleen Ann Nicosia, 54, Winthrop
• John Ogonowski, 52, Dracut
• Betty Ann Ong, 45, Andover
• Jane M. Orth, 49, Haverhill
• Sonia Morales Puopolo, 61, Dover
• Patrick J. Quigley VI, 40, Wellesley
• David E. Retik, 33, Needham
• Frederick Rimmele, 32, Marblehead
• Raymond J. Rocha, 29, Malden
• Jean Destrehan Roger, 24, Longmeadow
• Philip M. Rosenzweig, 47, Acton
• Richard Barry Ross, 58, Newton
• Jessica Leigh Sachs, 23, Billerica
• Rahma Salie, 28, Boston
• Jesus Sanchez, 45, Hudson
• Jane Louise Simpkin, 36, Wayland
• Heather Lee Smith, 30, Boston
• Dianne Bulls Snyder, 42, Westport Point
• Brian D. Sweeney, 38, Barnstable
• Madeline Sweeney, 35, Acton
• Michael Theodoridis, 32, Boston
• Amy E. Toyen, 24, Newton
• James Anthony Trentini, 65, Everett
• Mary Barbara Trentini, 67, Everett
• Kenneth E. Waldie, 46, Methuen
• William M. Weems, 46, Marblehead
• Christopher Rudolph Zarba Jr., 47, Hopkinton

All 9/11 victims will be remembered at memorial services planned across the nation on Sept. 11 to mark the 20th anniversary of the attacks.

• Andover To Remember 9/11 With Saturday Ceremony
• Barnstable To Remember 9/11 With Saturday Ceremony
• Beverly's Task Force 1's Role In 9-11 Response Remembered
• Braintree To Remember 9/11 With Saturday Ceremony
• Danvers Fire To Host 9-11 20th Anniversary Memorial Service
• Falmouth To Remember 9/11 With Saturday Ceremony
• Grafton To Solemnly Reflect on 9/11
• Hopkinton To Honor 9/11 Victims, Veterans Lost To COVID-19
• Marblehead To Host Sept. 11 Anniversary Service At Memorial Park
• Medford To Hold 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony
• Milford 9/11 Memorial Will Also Help Homeless Vets
• North Andover To Remember 9/11 With Saturday Ceremony
• Northborough To Hold Annual 9/11 Ceremony
• Shrewsbury Fire Dept. Invites Residents To 9/11 Remembrance
• Stevens Memorial Library In North Andover Hosting 9/11 Memorial Stone Garden
• Peabody To Host 9-11 Remembrances On 20th Anniversary
• Student Speakers Announced For Reading's 9/11 Commemoration
• Reading PorchFest To Commemorate 9/11 Attacks
• Somerville To Hold Annual 9/11 Procession, Ceremony
• Swampscott To Host 9-11 20th Anniversary Ceremony, Day Of Giving
• Salem To Hold 20th Anniversary 9-11 Ceremony At Fire Headquarters
• Tewksbury To Remember 9/11 With Saturday Ceremony
• Westborough To Hold 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony
• Wilmington To Remember 9/11 On 20th Anniversary Saturday
• Remains Of Lawrence Marine To Return To City On 9/11

At the 9/11 memorial in Lower Manhattan, New York — an area known for years after the attacks as “Ground Zero” — the names of the fallen will be read aloud.

“Throughout the ceremony, we will observe six moments of silence, acknowledging when each of the World Trade Center towers was struck and fell and the times corresponding to the attack on the Pentagon and the crash of Flight 93,” the 9/11 Memorial & Museum wrote on its website.

The annual “Tribute of Light,” which are lights pointed to the sky in the shape of the Twin Towers, will go on that night.

Most 9/11 victims were from either New York or New Jersey, where many who lived across the Hudson River from the World Trade Center recall the horror of watching the twin towers collapse from their homes in Hoboken and Jersey City.

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 184 were killed when American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into The Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and 44 died on United Airlines Flight 93 near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.