December 24, 2024
ONE YEAR LATER

For those lost

A sampling of ways America has responded to the Sept. 11 attacks:

Memorials

Small granite monument placed at Ohio air traffic control center that had last contact with United Airlines Flight 93 before it crashed.

Massachusetts Port Authority plans to plant grove of trees, one for each victim on two hijacked planes that took off from Boston.

Memorial planned in Bergen County, N.J., home to more than 100 victims.

Waterfront memorial planned at park in Hoboken, N.J., home to more than 50 people killed. Trees also being planted in park for each victim.

Thirty-three acre farmland memorial in Massachusetts being prepared to honor John Ogonowski, captain of American Airlines Flight 11, fourth-generation farmer.

Names

Road and post office in Deer Park, N.Y., named for Ray Downey, New York City’s most decorated firefighter.

New York City Council passed bill to rename stretch of West 31st Street after the Rev. Mychal Judge, fire department chaplain. Commuter ferry boat also named after him.

Alabama Legislature designated Interstate 65 – main north-south route through state – “Heroes Highway” in memory of those killed.

Section of Highway 129 in Alabama named to honor Johnny Spann, CIA agent killed in prison uprising in Afghanistan.

Baseball field named in Delaware after Matthew Flocco, killed in the Pentagon.

Dialysis wing in Ethiopia being named for Dr. Yeneneh Betru, pulmonary specialist killed.

Bench and flagpole on Atlantic City, N.J., boardwalk named for Victor Saracini, pilot of United Airlines Flight 175.

Scholarships

Indiana University plans scholarships honoring three men, fathers of IU students, who died at World Trade Center.

New York law grants children and spouses of Sept. 11 victims and New York members of military killed in war on terror four-year scholarship at state or city of New York university or equivalent private college.

Vatican-sponsored scholarship established for children of victims of attacks.

Special days

Illinois designated Sept. 11 day of remembrance and commemorative holiday.

Missouri designated Sept. 11 Emergency Services Day to honor those killed.


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