Remembering 9/11 Victims From Connecticut 22 Years Later

CONNECTICUT — Gov. Ned Lamont has ordered U.S. and state flags to remain lowered at half-staff on Monday in remembrance of the nearly 3,000 people who were killed in the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.

Flags in Connecticut are currently lowered to half-staff in honor of Hartford Police Officer Bobby Garten, who died on Wednesday night while serving in the line of duty.

Beginning at dusk on Sunday and Monday evening, the state will illuminate the Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge in New Haven – informally known by many residents as the Q Bridge – in red, white, and blue lights in tribute to those who lost their lives in the attacks. Beacons capable of projecting light nearly six miles into the clear night sky will be lit until the early morning hours.

Connecticut’s official memorial honoring the victims of the attacks is located on a peninsula at Sherwood Island State Park in Westport, where on a clear day the Manhattan skyline can be viewed across the Long Island Sound.

"On this day 22 years ago, one of the greatest tragedies in American history hit all too close to home, and we will forever pay tribute to the innocent lives that were taken all too soon and honor the heroism of those who gave their lives while rescuing others, including the many first responders," Lamont said in a statement issued Friday.

The memorial includes a stone engraved with the names of the 161 people with ties to the state who were killed in the attacks:

Laurence Abel
Bryan C. Bennett
Jeffrey D. Bittner
Christopher J. Blackwell FDNY
Allen Patrick Boyle
Alexander Braginsky
Francis Henry (Frank) Brennan
Thomas M. Brennan
Joseph M. Calandrillo
Edward Calderon
Sandra Campbell
Alejandro Castano
Juan Ceballos
Stephen P. Cherry
Kevin F. Cleary Esq.
Geoffrey W. Cloud
Keith Eugene Coleman
Scott Thomas Coleman
Margaret Conner
Kevin P. Connors
Joseph John Coppo
Dolores Costa
Brian Thomas Cummins
Paul Curioli
Patrick Danahy
Anthony Demas
Lt. Kevin Donnelly FDNY
John Bruce Eagleson
Michael Egan
Ulf Ramm Ericson
Eric B. Evans
Wendy R. Faulkner
Edward T. Fergus Jr.
Bradley Fetchet
Paul M. Fiori
John Fiorito
Bennett Lawson Fisher
Peter C. Fry
Richard Peter Gabriel Sr.
Richard S. Gabrielle
James A. Gadiel
Thomas E. Galvin
Osseni Mama Garba
Christopher Samuel Gardner
Peter Alan Gay
Peter Gerard Gelinas
Robert Gerlich
Lawrence Getzfred
Evan Hunter Gillette
Ronald Gilligan
Steven Lawrence Glick
Wilder A. Gomez
Kiran Kumar Reddy Gopu
Edwin J. Graf III
Donald F. Greene
James A. Greenleaf Jr.
Pedro Grehan
James D. Halvorson
Sean S. Hanley
Christine Lee Hanson
Peter Burton Hanson
Sue Kim Hanson
Timothy John Hargrave
Michele Heidenberger
H. Joseph Heller
John Henwood
Robert Higley II
James J. Hobin
Judith Florence Hofmiller
Paul R. Hughes
William Christopher Hunt
Thomas Edward Hynes
John F. Iskyan
Ariel Louis Jacobs
Michael Grady Jacobs
Mark Steven Jardim
Robert Thomas Jordan
Richard M. Keane
Peter R. Kellerman
Maurice Patrick Kelly
William Hill Kelly Jr.
Amy King
Glenn Davis Kirwin
Stephen LaMantia
Gary E. Lasko
Robert A. Lawrence Jr.
Joseph A. Lenihan
Adam J. Lewis
Steven B. Lillianthal
Garry W. Lozier
Michael J. Lyons
Edward Teddy F. Maloney
Ada Mason
Kevin Michael McCarthy
Juliana McCourt
Ruth McCourt
Eamon McEneaney
Michael G. McGinty
Francis McGuinn
William J. Meehan Jr.
Eskedar Melaku
Raymond Joseph Metz III
Joel Miller
Michael M. Miller
Cheryl Ann Monyak
Lindsay S. Morehouse
Jude Moussa
Cesar A. Murillo
Christopher William White Murphy
Daniel Robert Nolan
Robert W. Noonan
Timothy M. O'Brien
Scott J. O'Brien
James Andrew O'Grady
Christopher Orgielewicz
Margaret Quinn Orloske
Thomas Anthony Palazzo
James Matthew Patrick
Mike A. Pelletier
Joshua Piver
Roger Mark Rasweiler
Jean Destrehan Roger
Sean P. Rooney
Michael C. Rothberg
Jason E. Sabbag
Jesus Sanchez
Stacey Leigh Sanders
Sean Schielke
John B. Schwartz
Randy Scott
Barbara A. Shaw
Michael John Simon
Heather Lee Smith
Dianne Bullis Snyder
Gregory T. Spagnoletti
George E. Spencer III
Derek J. Statkevicus
Craig William Staub
Andrew Stergiopoulos
Madeline Sweeney
Michael C. Tarrou
Thomas F. Theurkauf Jr.
Eric Raymond Thorpe
Amy E. Toyen
Tyler Ugolyn
Jonathan J. Uman
Allen V. Upton
Bradley H. Vadas
Edward Raymond Vanacore
Frederick Varacchi
James Thomas Waters Jr.
Jeffrey David Wiener
Candace Lee Williams
John P. Williamson
William Eben Wilson
David H. Winton
Christopher W. Wodenshek
Martin Phillips Wohlforth
John Works
Edward P. York
Charles A. Zion

The state park was chosen as the site for the memorial because it is the location where many people in the immediate hours following the attacks gathered to observe the devastation on Lower Manhattan from across the sound. The site was also used by the Connecticut National Guard in the following days as a staging area for Connecticut’s relief efforts to New York City.