Sept. 11 Victims To Be Remembered At Brick Candlelight Ceremony

BRICK, NJ — Brick Township will hold its annual 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony and candlelight vigil on Sunday at Windward Beach Park.

The ceremony, which marks the 21st anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that killed nearly 3,000 people on Sept. 11, 2001, will be held 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 hit 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 eight from Brick, who all died at the World Trade Center, 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.

The ceremony includes prayers from church leaders throughout Brick, along with a VFW honor guard and placing of battery-powered candlelights at the base of the monument, which has the eight names of those killed on it.