Twenty Four Years of Remembrance

 

 

The Warminster community gathered on 9/11/25 at the Hartsville Fire Company to honor all who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in NY. The attacks claimed the lives of 343 members of the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY), 23 New York Police Department Officers (NYPD) and 37 New York and New Jersey Port Authority Officers.  September 11, 2001 is the worst single-incident loss of firefighter lives in history.

 

During the Memorial Service all are invited to participate in the reading of the names of firefighters, police officers and two local firefighters, John Kulick and Tristan Smith, who were killed in action in Iraq.  In addition to the reading of the names, everyone is encouraged to assist in the retrieval of the flags that are displayed on the front lawn of the firehouse.

 

 

The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were a series of four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by the militant Islamic extremist network al-Qaeda against the United States.

 

On the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners mid-flight while traveling from the northeastern U.S. to California. The attackers were organized into three groups of five members and one group of four, with each group including one designated flight-trained hijacker who took control of the aircraft. Their goal was to crash the planes into prominent American buildings, inflicting mass casualties and major structural damage.

 

The hijackers successfully crashed the first two planes into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, and the third plane into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. The fourth plane was intended to hit a federal government building in Washington, D.C., but instead crashed down in a field outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania, following a passenger revolt that foiled the attack.