Remembering The 9/11 Victims From Great Neck

GREAT NECK, NY — Saturday marks 20 years since the deadliest terror attack on American soil.

On Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist-hijacked passenger planes slammed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field near rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The era-defining tragedies took the lives of 2,977 people, including more than 400 first responders.

Two decades later — even in the midst of a global pandemic — Americans will come together to honor those whose lives were snuffed out by terrorism.

Among those killed were six Great Neck residents:

• Peter Christopher Frank, 29
• Jonathan Lee Ielpi, 29
• Frederick Kuo, Jr., 53
• Andrew Stergiopoulos, 23
• Joshua S. Vitale, 28
• Richard Y.C. Lee, 34

The Town of North Hempstead will be holding a memorial service at 8:15 a.m. on Saturday. During the service at Manhasset Valley Park, officials will unveil a monument featuring a 19-foot-long beam from the World Trade Center.