20 Years Later, Remembering Matawan/Aberdeen's 9/11 Victims

NEW JERSEY— Anyone older than 25 in New Jersey likely remembers where they were on 9/11.

Americans felt a collective trauma as first one and then another plane flew into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001. As the truth dawned on people watching from their TVs that America was under attack, another plane took aim at the Pentagon. A fourth was brought down in a field in Pennsylvania in a final act of heroism by passengers who realized their flight had been hijacked.

Nearly 3,000 Americans, including 750 from New Jersey, were killed in the suicide attacks carried out by 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaida.

On the 20th anniversary of the attacks, here are all the Matawan-Aberdeen residents killed in 9/11:

Matawan:

• Thomas A. Damaskinos, 33; Cantor Fitzgerald; United States World Trade Center
• Edward P. Felt, 41; worked for BEA Systems; a passenger on United States United Airlines Flight 93
• Virginia Jablonski 49; Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc.; United States World Trade Center
• William Edward Micciulli, 30; Cantor Fitzgerald; United States World Trade Center
• Robert Alan Miller, 46; New York State Department of Taxation and Finance; United States World Trade Center
• Bernard T. Pietronico, 39; Cantor Fitzgerald; United States World Trade Center
• Elvin Santiago Romero, 34; Cantor Fitzgerald; United States World Trade Center
• Kenneth F. Tietjen, 31; Port Authority Police Officer, United States World Trade Center

Aberdeen:

• Willie Q. Troy, 51; U.S. Army; killed at United States Pentagon
• Stephen J. Fiorelli, 43; Port Authority of New York and New Jersey; United States World Trade Center
• Michael A. Uliano, 42; Cantor Fitzgerald; United States World Trade Center
• Police Officer Richard Rodriguez, Port Authority Police
• Christopher Traina, 25
• Lance Tumulty, 32, captain of the Matawan High School football team before he graduated in 1987. Married with two young children, lived in Bridgewater, killed while working on the 84th floor of the South Tower.

At noon this Saturday, Aberdeen will host its 9/11 memorial service at Aberdeen Town Hall, 1 Aberdeen Square.

Matawan will also hold its ceremony at noon Saturday in Memorial Park on Main Street.

At the 9/11 memorial in Lower Manhattan, the names of the fallen will be read aloud. The annual “Tribute of Light,” which are lights pointed to the sky in the shape of the Twin Towers, will go on that night.

More than 2,700 people died at the World Trade Center alone on 9/11, including the passengers of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175. Another 184 were killed when American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into The Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and 44 died on United Airlines Flight 93 near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.