Milford To Host 9/11Remembrance Ceremony

The City of Milford will remember the events of September 11, 2001 on Friday, Sept. 11, 2015 with a ringing of the bells at 8:46 a.m., the time the first plane struck New York’s World Trade Center, according to a press release. Fire Chief Douglas Edo will ring the bell.

The small ceremony will take place at Milford’s Fire Station No. 7, 55 Wheelers Farm Rd., where a hallowed chunk of steel from the World Trade Center rests.

Following Sept. 11, city firefighters requested that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey entrust Milford with this significant section of steel in order to erect a memorial monument dedicated to the 2,819 people who were killed by the terrorist attacks.

In Milford, we remember victims Michael Miller and Avnish Patel, both graduates of Live Oaks School, as well as Seth Morris, who was a student at Mathewson School.

Mayor Ben Blake invites all residents to attend the ceremony and asks everyone to take a moment of pause and remembrance in honor of those who died, and those who participated in rescue efforts on that tragic day, the release says.