9/11 Memorial Lights Event, Benefit Is Monday In Wall

WALL, NJ — The fourth annual 9/11 Memorial Lights, presented by Wall Township, will take place
Monday, Sept. 11, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Oak Tree Lodge, 1412 Schoolhouse Road.

The cost is $20 per person, and tickets will be sold at the door.

There will be food trucks and live music by Retro Kings. Visitors should bring a lawn chair to enjoy the band. It is a BYOB event, organizers say.

All proceeds are to be donated to the Tunnel To Towers Foundation.

The event is sponsored by the Orender Family Home for Funerals and Oak Tree Lodge.

The Monmouth County Board of County Commissioners also invites everyone to attend its 9/11 memorial ceremony at 8 a.m. Monday, Sept. 11. It will be held on the top of Mount Mitchill in Atlantic Highlands.

The county will also have its Tribute of Lights this year. The lights will be illuminated from sunset to 11 p.m. on Sept. 11, rain or shine. The lights will be visible throughout Monmouth County and along the Raritan Bayshore.

The board earlier this year declared Monday, Sept. 11, 2023 a county holiday to honor the victims, first responders, volunteers and all who were affected by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

Monmouth County lost 147 residents in the terrorist attacks, among the 2,977 people who were killed. More than 6,000 others were injured. Of the 2,977 fatalities, 2,753 were killed in the World Trade Center and the surrounding area, 184 at the Pentagon, and 40 in Pennsylvania after the crash of Flight 93. These deaths included 265 on the four planes used in the attacks.

The attacks by the 19 hijackers, who also died that day, remain the deadliest terrorist act in world history.