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Healdsburg Honors Victims, Responders At 9/11 Monument

Local first responders will read 9/11 victims names during a community gathering marking 25 years since the 2001 bombing in New York.

A World Trade Center I-beam anchors a memorial in the Healdsburg Plaza where local first responders will read the names of people killed in the 2001 Twin Tower bombing during a memorial on Sept. 11 beginning 6 p.m.
A World Trade Center I-beam anchors a memorial in the Healdsburg Plaza where local first responders will read the names of people killed in the 2001 Twin Tower bombing during a memorial on Sept. 11 beginning 6 p.m. (Ray Holley/City of Healdsburg)

HEALDSBURG, CA — Local first responders, both current and retired, will read the names of the first responders who died in the Sept. 11 attacks in New YOrk during a 25th-anniversary remembrance at 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 11, at the Healdsburg Plaza.

The community is welcome to gather at the Plaza monument and reflect together.

Retired Healdsburg Fire Engineer Ben Gilliam obtained the monument’s World Trade Center I-beam where the memorial will be held.

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The memorial was dedicated in 2012 after the city granted volunteers, including Healdsburg contractors and Healdsburg High School students, permission for its design, fabrication, and installation.

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