9/11 Remembrance Ceremony Set In Brick

BRICK, NJ — For the 22nd year, Brick Township officials and local clergy will gather at Windward Beach Park for a candlelight vigil and remembrance ceremony to honor the victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

The ceremony, which marks the anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that killed nearly 3,000 people on Sept. 11, 2001, is set for 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 11, 2023, at the Angel in Anguish monument at the park on Princeton Avenue.

Eight people who have ties to Brick were killed in the attacks carried out by 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaida, who hijacked four planes that day. Two planes were crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. One hit the Pentagon. A fourth plane, which appeared to be headed to Washington, D.C., was brought down in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, by passengers who foiled its planned attack.

The ceremony includes the reading of the names of the eight people from Brick, all of whom died at the World Trade Center, along with prayers from clergy throughout Brick, a VFW honor guard and placing of battery-powered candlelights at the base of the monument.

The eight people from Brick are:

• John Badagliacca
• Brett T. Bailey
• Robert P. Devitt Jr.
• Michael David Diehl
• Jon Anthony Perconti
• James Sands Jr.
• Thomas Sgroi
• Christopher Traina

Since 2017, Brick Township officials also have honored Ruben Correa and Martha Jane Stevens. Correa, 44, was a firefighter with Ladder 74 who lived in Staten Island; his family now lives in Brick. Stevens, 55, who worked for AON Corporation, spent her summers in Brick.