September 11 Day Of Remembrance Set At Wayne 9/11 Memorial

WAYNE, NJ — Local officials, first responders, and neighbors are preparing to honor the Wayne residents who died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and remember the thousands of lives lost that day.

The township's annual Sept. 11 memorial service will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 11 beginning at 6 p.m. It will be held at the Wayne Township 9/11 Memorial Park, located at Town Hall next to the library.

This permanent memorial, completed in 2008, is dedicated to the township residents who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001.

The township will remember and honor those seven men: Robert Deraney, Jean Caviasco DePalma, Daniel Afflitto, Paul Acquaviva, Barry Glick, Leo Roberts, and Gregg John Froehner. Froehner was a Wayne police dispatcher and a Port Authority police officer.

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.

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.