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Photos: Forever a place to reflect on 9/11 in Rocky Point
The Rocky Point Fire Department unveiled its 9/11 memorial and held a candle lighting ceremony at its fire headquarters in Shoreham Sunday evening.
About 300 came to remember those lost in the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.
The new memorial features a 16-foot twisted steel beam from recovered from the twin towers that stands in the center of a reflection pool. An arched wall, which soon will bear the names of each victim of the Sept. 11 attacks, hugs the pool from behind.
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“The reflecting pool visually and spiritually connects the beam and those who gaze upon it to the heavens above,” said Rocky Point fire captain Joe Titone, who designed the memorial.
Four wreaths were floated in the pool throughout the ceremony to represent each plane that crashed that day: the two planes that crashed into each of the twin towers, the one that hit the Pentagon and the one that went down in a field in Shanksville, Pa.
Mike Williams of Shoreham was one of the hundreds who attended the ceremony. His son, Kevin, was killed on Sept. 11, 2001 at the age of 24. Kevin worked on the 104th floor of Tower Two as a bond salesman at Sandler O’Neil. He was engaged to be married.
“At that time, Kevin was my best friend,” Mr. Williams said.
He said the location of the fire department’s memorial, at the corner of Tesla Street and Route 25A, is significant and personal: Kevin rode his bike past that corner on his way to a nearby pizza place as a junior high school student; he drove past on his way to the golf course and ball field as a high schooler; and he drove past on his way to the Orient Point Ferry to get to Boston College.
Kevin also passed that corner on Sept. 9, 2001 on his way to the Lake Ronkonkoma train station, where he would take a train into Manhattan, never to return home.
“The loss on Sept. 11, 2001 was immeasurable,” Mr. Williams said. “I truly believe every person in America lost a piece of themselves that day.”
SAMANTHA BRIX PHOTO | The Rocky Point Fire Department memorial will soon display the names of all Sept. 11, 2001 terror victims.
