Generally Speaking: Remembering 9/11 on the 69th Street Pier
We have an unbroken record of attending the annual remembrance tribute on the American Veterans Memorial Pier. The world and this nation were shocked by the unprovoked and horrific terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and United Flight 93 flying over Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Each year, as we mourn the loss of over 3,000 persons who were killed that day, we also thank God and our lucky stars that we weren’t still working on the 14th floor of the South Tower. Back in the late sixties and into the seventies, we spent 10 years toiling for a state agency at the World Trade Center.
At this 13th anniversary commemoration, State Senator Marty Golden once again hosted the memorial ceremonies that were emceed by Bill Guarinello, president of the Fort Hamilton Citizens Action Committee and chair of Community Board 11. Bill is also the former chair of the Brooklyn Remembers Committee which brought the permanent Brooklyn 9/11 Monument, a 25-foot tall bronze sculpture fashioned into old-fashioned fireman’s speaking trumpet, to the former ferry wharf.