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Hoboken 9/11 Ceremony To Be Held At Pier A Memorial Site: 2018
56 Hoboken residents lost their lives in the September 11 attacks.
HOBOKEN, NJ — An annual interfaith service in memory of the 9/11 attacks will take place in Hoboken on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018. The ceremony will take place at 6 p.m. at the Pier A 9/11 Memorial Site within the grove of ginkgo trees which are also aligned with the World Trade Center that were planted in 2002 as a living memorial.
Hoboken officials wrote:
“The living memorial is made up of 56 glass panels to represent each of the lives lost. The victims’ names and birth years are engraved on the panels and is illuminated at night. The perimeter of the grove includes steel plates on the ground engraved with quotes from those who were there on that fateful day.”
According to city officials, 56 Hoboken residents lost their lives in the September 11 attacks.
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17 years ago today the Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corps along with the HFD, HPD, OEM and many other EMS Services from around the State of NJ treated over 2200 people at the Hoboken Triage area located at the Erie Lackawanna train station. @HobokenFire @HobokenPD #NeverForget 1/2 pic.twitter.com/0jaAGllnaF
— Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corps (@HobokenVol_EMS) September 11, 2018
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