Parsippany To Host September 11 Remembrance Ceremony For 2024

PARSIPPANY, NJ — Parsippany will host its annual community gathering to observe the 23rd anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks next Wednesday.

The gathering will be held at the 9/11 memorial site in front of the Parsippany-Troy Hills Municipal Building.

Starting at 8:40 a.m., the ceremony will feature prayers of commemoration by local clergy, followed by the presentation of a ceremonial wreath by VFW members. Each year, the ceremony concludes with the reading of the names of the Parsippany residents we lost that day, and a period of silent reflection.

The ceremony will proceed rain or shine; however, in case of inclement weather, it will be held indoors at the Municipal Building's Council Chambers, township officials said.

Parsippany lost seven residents during the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001:

• Martin Boryczewski
• Antoinette Duger
• Jason Kyle Jacobs
• Michael Pescherine
• Thomas H. Polhemus
• Maria Theresa Santillan
• Michael C. Sorresse

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 40 died on United Airlines Flight 93 near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.