Hempstead Town Holding 9/11 Ceremony On Wednesday

The Town of Hempstead will hold its annual Sunrise Memorial Service to honor those who died on Sept. 11, 2001 on Wednesday at 7:30 a.m. at Point Lookout Town Park, located at 1300 Lido Blvd.

The service will honor all of those who died on Sept. 11, as well as those who have died from illnesses since. Everyone is welcome to attend.

The service is held on the beach, in the same spot where hundreds of people gathered on Sept. 11, 2001, to watch black smoke rise from the World Trade Center across the water.

Speakers will include FDNY Lieutenant Michael O’Connell and music by the Nassau County Firefighter’s Pipes and Drums Band, along with the Gregorian Consortium of Kellenberg Memorial High School.

As part of the ceremony, all will be invited to place white carnations around a 30-foot-tall steel beam recovered from the World Trade Center.

“We remember and will never forget, the nearly 3,000 lives taken from us so tragically — including the over 450 Long Islanders and 200 residents from the Town of Hempstead whom we called our mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, neighbors and friends,” said Hempstead Town Supervisor Laura Gillen. “We will continue to gather as a community to honor the victims taken on that tragic day and to honor the courage of those who put themselves so selflessly in harm’s way to save people they never knew.”