East Windsor Township to hold annual 9/11 memorial ceremony

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The annual 9/11 memorial ceremony is set for Sept. 11 at 5 p.m. at the 9/11 Memorial located outside the East Windsor Township Municipal Building at 16 Lanning Boulevard.

Military veterans, police officers, volunteer firefighters, volunteer rescue squad members, clergy, school district officials and Boy Scouts, along with East Windsor Township elected officials, are expected to attend the ceremony.

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The ceremony encourages residents to come together to remember the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks in New York City, Washington, D.C. and a field in rural Pennsylvania.

Six East Windsor Township residents were killed on Sept. 11, 2001. A seventh victim had ties to Hightstown Borough.

Colleen Barkow, Debbie Bellows, Neil Lai and Ruth Lapin worked in offices located in the Twin Towers, while Anil Bharvaney was attending a conference at the Windows of the World restaurant on the 106th and 107th floors of the Twin Towers.

Lorraine Bay was a flight attendant on United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in the field in Pennsylvania.

Joseph Pycior Jr., whose mother lived in Hightstown, worked at the Pentagon. He was an Aviation Warfare Systems Operator First Class in the U.S. Navy.

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