Woodbridge's 9/11 Ceremony Will Be Thursday Evening

WOODBRIDGE, NJ — Woodbridge Township will hold its yearly Sept. 11 vigil and ceremony at 6 p.m. Thursday.

It is open to all. The ceremony will be held on the concert stage behind Woodbridge High School, next to the Woodbridge Public Library.

The Woodbridge mayor and council, local police, fire and EMS, the Woodbridge Township Interfaith Clergy Council and the Woodbridge Township Veterans Alliance will all speak.

The ceremony will honor the Woodbridge Township residents killed in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. They are:

• Edward Allegretto: Broker at Cantor Fitzgerald
• Marilyn Bautista: Worked in the accounts payable department of insurance broker Marsh & McLennan.
• Patrick Dunn: Grew up in Woodbridge, worked in the Pentagon for the U.S. Navy as the chief of naval operations. Was one of the 125 people killed at the Pentagon.
• John Adam Larson: Lived in Colonia, worked as insurance broker on the 103rd floor.
• James Lynch: Port Authority police officer
• Charles Mauro, worked for Aon Corporation
• Tonyell McDay: A computer technician for Marsh Technologies on the 97th floor of 1 World Trade Center, she lived with her parents in Colonia. She was 25.
• Narender Nath: Worked for Marsh McLennan
• Sankara Velamuri: Worked for the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance

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.