Cromwell to commemorate Sept. 11

Memorial for 2,937 who died that day in ’01

CROMWELL — Residents will gather at Frisbee Park Tuesday morning to mark the 17th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

The remembrance ceremony, which is being held at the pavilion at Riverport Park at Frisbee Landing, begins at 8:30 a.m. and will continue until 9:15.

Mayor Enzo Faienza will lead a delegation of officials during the ceremony organized by Jay Polke, co-owner of the Willowbrook Spirit Shoppe, and contractor Robert Donohue, owner of Donohue Home Improvement.

Polke and Donohue said they were staging the event “so we will never forget the Americans that died on that infamous day.”

A total of 2,937 people were killed in coordinated attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington when terrorists flew hijacked jetliners into the buildings.

Forty more people died when they fought to regain control of a United Airlines Flight 93 which had been hijacked and was being flown toward Washington. The passengers and crew were killed when the plane crashed outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Joining Faienza will be the Rev. Paul D. Kramitz, pastor of the Bethany Lutheran Church of Cromwell, Police Chief Denise Lamontagne and state Rep. Christie Carpino, R-Cromwell.

Richard F. Donohue, president of the Cromwell Historical Society, has been invited to sing the National Anthem.

The public in invited to share in the remembrance as well.

Hearst Connecticut Media file photo A young boy takes a look at the beam from the World Trade Center’s North Tower following a Sept. 11 ceremony in Middlefield.