PARSIPPANY — On a windy day with gusts too strong to light memorial candles, dignitaries and residents attended the 14th Anniversary of that fateful day with a Remembrance Service and Candle Vigil.
Congressman Rodney Frelinghuysen began the service with the Pledge of Allegiance with the Morris Choral Society singing the National Anthem. The Reverend Joseph Ford of the Bethel A.M.E Church in Morristown provided the Invocation.
After Shreya Durbha and Shefali Das, students at the Morris County School of Technology, led a rendition of ‘God Bless America,’ Freeholder Doug Cabana, the last remaining current Freeholder who was serving in 2001, began the service with solemn opening remarks.
James Michael Gannon, global head of security for Novartis, who has worked on FBI anti-terrorism task forces was the main speaker of the event. Freeholders David Scapicchio and Hank Lyon read the names of the 64 Morris County Victims.
Mayors from several Morris County Municipalities attended including Frank Druetzler from Morris Plains, Ronald F. Francioli from Hanover, Joseph Pannullo from East Hanover, as well as several others.
Sheriff Ed Rochford and Prosecutor Fredric Knapp paid their respects as as did Parsippany Councilman Mike dePierro, former Parsippany Councilman Jonathan Nelson, Parsippany Chief of Police Paul Philipps and members of Parsippany Fire districts and Rescue and Recovery. Senator Bucco and Assemblyman Bucco attended as well.
