Manchester Hosting Sept. 11 Remembrance Ceremony

MANCHESTER, NJ — Manchester Township officials will hold a remembrance ceremony on Wednesday to honor the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The ceremony is set for 10 a.m. at the back entrance of Manchester Town Hall on Colonial Drive in the courtyard near the 9/11 monument and will honor the victims, including Cira Marie Patti of Manchester, of the attacks at the World Trade Center in New York, at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, and aboard United Flight 93, which was forced to crash in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

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, 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 before it could reach its intended target.

Hundreds of others have died in the 23 years since from 9/11-related illnesses.