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Area towns mark 9/11 anniversary with ceremonies at memorials

There will be a 9/11/01 Memorial ceremony at the site of the American Flags painted on the six maple trees at 68 Dodgingtown Road off Route #302 in Newtown.  The ceremony is at 8:15am.

 

 

New Milford's 13th Annual Memorial Ceremony of 9-11-01 is at the Memorial site located in the Patriot’s Way Plaza, overlooking the Young’s Field ball fields. The service will commence with Water Witch Hose Co. #2 tolling the apparatus bell at 8:46am.

 

First responders, including the New Milford Community Ambulance Corps., New Milford Police and Volunteer Fire Departments will present and raise the flag with assistance from Military Personnel.  The ceremony will include the singing of our National Anthem and an Invocation before guest speakers offer a few words.  The ceremony will conclude with the singing of “God Bless America” and close to “Amazing Grace” offered by Patrick Maguire on bagpipes.  Ceremony guests are invited to place a flower on the memorial in remembrance and reflection.

 

 

A ceremony is scheduled for 10 am at Kent Town Hall to dedicate a 9/11 memorial, a stone with a plaque on it dedicated to James Gadiel.  The 23-year-old Cantor Fitzgerald trader died in the World Trade Center.  James' father Peter Gadiel, asked that the memorial say victims were "murdered by Muslim terrorists."  Town officials said years earlier that the wording was not supported by residents, whose taxes paid for the plaque.  The memorial instead refers to "Islamist extremists.''  During today's ceremony, a short piece will be read, which James wrote as a 7th grader.

 

 

The City of Danbury's September 11th Memorial Remembrance Gathering will be held at 6pm at the 9-11 monument in Elmwood Park on Main Street.  The twelve-foot tower of glass is mounted on a pentagon of Connecticut granite.  The glass tower lines up with the lighted flagpole flying the U.S. flag previously flown over the U.S. Capitol and the 9-11 Memorial Flag.  The glass tower is lighted from dusk to dawn.

 

 

Bethel will remember the victims of the September 11th attacks with a ceremony at 6pm.  The rememberance will be held at the Municipal Center.  In a change from previous years, there will not be a procession from the fire house.

 

 

Ridgefield's annual 9-11 observances will be held outdoors at the memorial off Route 35 that has a beam of World Trade Center steel as its centerpiece.  The ceremony will start at 6:30 on Danbury Road at the Parks and Recreation facility.  Members of the Ridgefield Clergy Association will share thoughts, and offer prayers.  The Ridgefield Police Department will provide an honor guard.  The Ridgefield Volunteer Fire Department will provide a color guard for the ceremonies.

 

 

To honor and remember those lost, and to recognize those who continue to serve and protect, Brookfield will hold a 9-11 Candlelight Vigil on Thursday at 7pm, at Brookfield Town Hall.  The service will be held in the Rotary Memorial Garden. In the event of bad weather, the service will be held in Town Hall Foyer. Those in attendance are being asked to bring a candle.

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