9/11 Memorial Service Will Honor Howell Victims Of Terrorist Attacks

HOWELL, NJ — The township's 9/11 memorial service will be Saturday, Sept. 10, and will remember the five Howell residents who died in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

The service will begin at 10 a.m. at the 9/11 Memorial Monument, 251 Preventorium Road.

The event will gather a Police Honor Guard, local fire departments, the Township Council and residents, said Steven Fecher, Howell's director of community relations. Area religious leaders will also speak at the service.

There will be a reading of the names of the five Howell residents who died in the attacks: John Lennon Jr., a Port Authority police officer; and Colin McArthur, John Rhodes, Joseph Sacerdote and Alan Wisnewski, who worked at the World Trade Center.

The design of the township's 9/11 Memorial Monument has five pillars representing the five victims, Fecher noted. The pillars form a pentagon, representing the U.S. Pentagon that was also attacked that day 21 years ago.

Monmouth County will hold its annual Sept. 11 ceremony at 9 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 11. The ceremony will be held at the Mount Mitchill Scenic Overlook at 460 Ocean Boulevard in Atlantic Highlands, home to Monmouth County’s 9/11 memorial.

Monmouth County lost 147 residents in the terrorist attacks, among the 2,977 people who were killed. More than 6,000 others were injured. Of the 2,977 fatalities, 2,753 were killed in the World Trade Center and the surrounding area, 184 at the Pentagon, and 40 in Pennsylvania after the crash of Flight 93. These deaths included 265 on the four planes used in the attacks. The attacks by the 19 hijackers, who also died that day, remain the deadliest terrorist act in world history.