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Last Sept. 11 marked the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, a terrible day on which more than 3,000 people, including dozens of South Shore residents, died.
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9/6/12
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On Sept. 11, 2001, New York City firefighter Stephen Siller called his wife, Sarah, shortly after 8:46 a.m., when five Al Qaeda terrorists slammed American Airlines Flight 11 into the World Trade Center’s North Tower.
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8/16/12
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The winners of the fifth annual Andrew J. Stern Memorial Essay Contest were announced on Feb. 15 at the East Rockaway Board of Education’s meeting held in the high school auditorium. The theme of …
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By Mary Malloy
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2/22/12
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Around 10:05 on Feb. 16, wires of a crane lifting a steel beam off a flatbed truck at the World Trade Center site snapped, causing the beam to fall about 40 stories and crush the truck.
As of …
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Lee Landor
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2/16/12
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All that remains of the twin towers of the World Trade Center are pieces of steel and memories. Photographs of the iconic buildings, while cherished, are not tangible in the same way as a steel beam, …
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Lee Landor
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11/30/11
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hose attending the village’s 9/11 Candlelight Vigil on Oct. 23 at 7 p.m. will have an opportunity to see three steel beams, believed to have supported the 48th floor of the South Tower, that will become part of a renovated Fireman’s Memorial Park on North Forest Avenue, which is currently under design by members of the Fire Department and other dedicated village residents.
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9/28/11
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Jeffrey Dingle was one of about 75 people who started the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, at a conference in one of the country’s most famous and highest-grossing restaurants — Windows on the …
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By Lee Landor
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9/28/11
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Joe Cipolla still has Robert “Bobby” DeAngelis Jr.’s number in his cell phone. He remembers well the day he tried calling DeAngelis repeatedly, either unable to get through or …
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Lee Landor
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9/21/11
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Fourteen-year-olds Eric Luvczenko and Jack Ligiori, of Lynbrook, stood at attention at the village’s Sept. 11 memorial, looking at a glaring reminder of that day in 2001: twin monuments made of two steel pieces that were part of the World Trade Center.
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By Clarissa Hamlin
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9/14/11
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Residents, village officials, firefighters, veterans’ organizations members, Boy Scout troops and World Trade Center first responders gathered at East Rockaway’s Memorial Park on Sunday to observe the 10th anniversary of the 9 /11 terrorist attacks. This was the village’s 11th ceremony, the first having
been held in the park just days after the attacks.
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By Mary Malloy
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9/14/11
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