Remembering The 9/11 Victims From Port Washington

Port Washington NY

10 September, 2021

12:21 PM

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PORT WASHINGTON, 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 11 Port Washington residents: David Scott Agnes, 46Neil James Cudmore, 38Martin N. DeMeo, 47Olga Kristin Gould White, 64Timothy C. Kelly, 37Justin John McCarthy, 29Antonio J. Rodrigues, 35Bart Joseph Ruggiere, 32John S. Salerno, 31Keiichiro Takahashi, 53Dinah Webster, 50 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.