Valley Streamers remember Sept. 11, 2001

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Nearly 300 students, officials, veterans and residents gathered at the Sept. 11 monument in Arthur J. Hendrickson Park on Sept. 11, 2018 to pay tribute to the almost 3,000 Americans that died on that day 17 years prior.

“Today we recall what we learned about ourselves on Sept. 11, 2001,” Mayor Ed Fare told the crowd. “We reaffirm how ordinary human beings, living ordinary lives, reacted with extraordinary heroism. Without warning and in an instant, so many among us answered the call, rose to their highest selves and demonstrated in a thousand ways what true heroism looks like.”

More than 40 Valley Streamers died in the Sept. 11 attacks, when terrorists hijacked planes and flew them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. A fourth flight crashed in Pennsylvania.

To commemorate the 17th anniversary of those attacks, representatives from the American Legion Post 854, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1790 and from the Scouts presented flags, and Valley Stream Central High School student Heather LaBarbera sang the national anthem. Representatives from the Valley Stream Junior Fire Department, the Village’s Board of Trustees and the Scouts also placed memorial wreaths on the 9/11 Memorial. At the end of the ceremony, guests were invited to place carnations on the memorial, which is made of metal from the towers.

“There’s a lot of healing that goes on, and I really like that,” Fare said.