Brick Set To Host 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony For 2024

BRICK, NJ — Brick Township officials and faith leaders will gather at Windward Beach Park on Wednesday for the town's annual 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony to honor the memories of those lost in the 2001 terrorist attacks.

The service on Wednesday at the Angel in Anguish monument, at the center of the park on Princeton Avenue, begins at 6 p.m.

Eight people who lived in Brick Township were among the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center in New York, at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, and United Flight 93, which was brought down in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, by passengers who foiled its planned attack that appeared to be in Washington.

The ceremony includes the reading of the names of the people from Brick, all of whom died at the World Trade Center, along with prayers from clergy throughout Brick, a VFW honor guard and placing of battery-powered candlelights at the base of the monument.

The eight Brick residents are: John Badagliacca; Brett T. Bailey; Robert P. Devitt Jr.; Michael David Diehl; Jon Anthony Perconti; James Sands Jr.; Thomas Sgroi, and Christopher Traina.

Since 2017, Brick Township officials also have honored Ruben Correa and Martha Jane Stevens. Correa, 44, was a firefighter with Ladder 74 who lived in Staten Island; his family now lives in Brick. Stevens, 55, who worked for AON Corporation, spent her summers in Brick.

Four planes were hijacked by 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaida. At the World Trade Center, 2,763 died, including 343 firefighters and paramedics, 23 New York City police officers and 37 Port Authority police officers, when two airliners hit the towers, according to History.com. At the Pentagon, 189 people were killed, including 64 on American Airlines Flight 77, the airliner that struck the building. On United Flight 93, 44 people died when the passengers who realized the plane had been hijacked plane caused the plane to crash in Pennsylvania.

Brick Township's ceremony is open to all members of the public. Residents are encouraged to attend and pay their respects to those who were lost and those who made the ultimate sacrifices on that day.