Remembering 9/11 Victims From Basking Ridge

BASKING RIDGE, NJ — Somerset County Board of Freeholders will place a wreath at the county's 9/11 Memorial Clock Tower, located at the corner of Main and North Bridge streets in Somerville, on Tuesday in commemoration of the 17th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

A total of 18 Basking Ridge residents died in the attacks on the World Trade Center:

• David Otey Campbell, 51;
• Stephen P. Dimino, 48;
• John W. Farrell, 41;
• Louis V. Fersini Jr., 38;
• Michael Bradley Finnegan, 37;
• Christopher Hugh Forsythe, 44;
• Steven Gregory Genovese, 37;
• Robert John Halligan, 59;
• Kevin James Hannaford, 32;
• John Clinton Hartz, 64;
• Matthew T. McDermott, 34;
• Stacey S. McGowan, 38;
• Ludwig J. Picarro, 44;
• Stephen E. Poulos, 45;
• Timothy P. Soulas, 35;
• Craig William Staub, 30;
• William R. Tieste, 54;
• Frank T. Wisniewski, 54.

Those 18 were among the nearly 3,000 people who died in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon and when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in a rural field near Shanksville in western Pennsylvania at 10:10 a.m. that on Sept. 11, 2001.

As people gather for the ceremony, the Somerset County Police Pipes & Drums band will perform. At 8:46 a.m. - the time when the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center 17 years ago - the ceremony will begin with a brief tolling of the bell, located at the top of the nearby historic courthouse.

The Somerset County Sheriff's Office Honor Guard will present the colors and the Freeholders will read the names of the 39 Somerset County residents killed in the attacks.

The Freeholders' placement of the wreath will be followed by a moment of silence. A second brief bell-tolling will conclude the ceremony.

"We invite residents to join us as we gather to honor and pay our respects to the Somerset County residents who perished, to the other victims who died in the attacks and to the many lives forever changed on September 11th," said Freeholder Director Patrick Scaglione.

Flags at county facilities will be flown at half-staff.

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