20 Years Later, Remembering Woodbridge'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 Woodbridge residents killed in 9/11:

• Edward Allegretto: Broker at Cantor Fitzgerald
• Marilyn Bautista: Worked in the accounts payable department of insurance broker Marsh & McLennan.
• Patrick Dunn: Grew up in Woodbridge, worked in the Pentagon for the U.S. Navy as the chief of naval operations. Was one of the 125 people killed at the Pentagon.
• John Adam Larson: Lived in Colonia, worked as insurance broker on the 103rd floor.
• James Lynch: Port Authority police officer
• Charles Mauro, worked for Aon Corporation
• Tonyell McDay: A computer technician for Marsh Technologies on the 97th floor of 1 World Trade Center, she lived with her parents in Colonia. She was 25.
• Narender Nath: Worked for Marsh McLennan
• Sankara Velamuri: Worked for the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance

Woodbridge held its memorial service Friday night.

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.

Most 9/11 victims were from either New York or New Jersey, where many who lived across the Hudson River from the World Trade Center recall the horror of watching the twin towers collapse from their homes in Hoboken and Jersey City.

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.