Watchung, Green Brook Memorial Services To Honor 9/11 Victims

WATCHUNG/GREEN BROOK, NJ — Watchung and Green Brook will each be hosting a 911 Memorial Service on Tuesday in commemoration of the 17th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Two Green Brook residents and two Green Brook residents died in the attacks on the World Trade Center:

• Kermit Charles Anderson, 57, of Green Brook
• Alvin Peter Kappelmann Jr., 57, of Green Brook
• Christopher N. Ingrassia, 28, of Watchung
• Honor Elizabeth Wainio, 27, of Watchung was on United Airlines Flight 93

Those four were among the nearly 3,000 people who died in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon and when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in a rural field near Shanksville in western Pennsylvania at 10:10 a.m. that on Sept. 11, 2001.

Green Brook will host its memorial ceremony at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday at the Top of the World Park 9/11 Memorial. For further information, contact Township Administrator/Clerk Kelly Cupit at 732-968-1023 ext. 6601.

Watchung will hold its annual Memorial Ceremony on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. at the 9/11 memorial on the Village Green. This ceremony will be held rain or shine. For more information, call 908-756-0080, ext. 210.

Somerset County Board of Freeholders will also be placing a wreath at the county's 9/11 Memorial Clock Tower, located at the corner of Main and North Bridge streets in Somerville, on Tuesday in commemoration of the 17th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

As people gather for the ceremony, the Somerset County Police Pipes & Drums band will perform. At 8:46 a.m. - the time when the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center 17 years ago - the ceremony will begin with a brief tolling of the bell, located at the top of the nearby historic courthouse.

The Somerset County Sheriff's Office Honor Guard will present the colors and the Freeholders will read the names of the 39 Somerset County residents killed in the attacks.

The Freeholders' placement of the wreath will be followed by a moment of silence. A second brief bell-tolling will conclude the ceremony.

"We invite residents to join us as we gather to honor and pay our respects to the Somerset County residents who perished, to the other victims who died in the attacks and to the many lives forever changed on September 11th," said Freeholder Director Patrick Scaglione.

Flags at county facilities will be flown at half-staff.

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