The September 11th Memorial Greenwich will be hosting a remembrance ceremony on Monday, September 11, 2023, starting at 8:46 am at the memorial site in Cos Cob Park.
The ceremony will include remarks by COL Francis V. Kelly, Ret. Who is the brother of Greenwich Board of Education President, Joe Kelly. Col. Kelly leads a community of professionals versed in international law, domestic military and relief operations, civil law, contract and fiscal law, and general legal assistance to Soldiers and their families. His operational assignments include Command Judge Advocate for the 641stRegional Support Group and Director of Soldier Readiness. Kelly has been deployed five times including combat, and has overseen $2.2
billion of construction, rehabilitation, and engineering projects in Iraq. He has also served as Trial Counsel and Administrative Law Attorney at the 10th Mountain Division, Light Infantry, Ft. Drum, NY.
Kelly has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Global War on Terror Medal, Iraqi Campaign Medal, Army Reserve Component Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal, Army Reserve Component Achievement Medal, Humanitarian Service Medal, and Aviation Survival Course. Kelly is a civil trial and appellate attorney and partner at Rebar Kelly. He is the husband of Kathleen and father to five magnificent adult children.
Also in attendance will be elected officials from the Town of Greenwich and the State of Connecticut. Members of the community’s first responder organizations; the Greenwich Police and Fire Departments and Greenwich Emergency Medical Service will present the colors with
an Honor Guard, members of the GEMS Explorer Post and the American Red Cross will also assist in the ceremony.
A gathering of over 200 people is expected to attend the annual ceremony and pay tribute to those who were lost. Opening the service will be Wells Noonan, Robert Noonan’s sister. A reading of the names of the deceased and a moment of silence will happen during the service
with Stephen R. Meskers, State Rep. 150th district reading the names, and Frank Gaudio, President and CEO of First Bank of Greenwich, ringing the bell. Other participants include GPD Captain Jim Bonney who will play the bagpipes. Ken Pond from the Round Hill Volunteer Fire
Company, and his son Dylan, will play TAPS on the bugle. Neil Spitzer will play the saxophone.
Community Outreach Group of the RMA) will perform. The event will conclude with a benediction and retreat of the colors.
This event is privately funded and supported by friends and family, businesses, and nonprofits.
We welcome donations to this service. For information on how you can support the annual service, please contact Wells Noonan at 203-984-8212 / September11thGreenwich@gmail.com.
On September 11, 2001, so many innocents were lost to such a horrific act of terror - including 32 people with ties to Greenwich. They were mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters who each left behind their families and friends a legacy of love and ultimate sacrifice. With that in mind
and heart, it is only fitting that, as a compassionate community, we united and built a September 11th Memorial. The Memorial was 100% privately funded and was offered as a gift to our town.
Freedom. Liberty. Forever. Love. Courage.
In Loving Memory of:
Bryan Craig Bennett, Stephen Patrick Cherry, Kevin Francis Cleary, Kevin P. Connors, Brian Cummins, Christine Egan, Michael Egan, Ulf Ramm Ericson, Bennett L. Fisher, Thomas Edward Galvin, Steven Glick, Donald Freeman Greene, Pedro Grehan, James Douglas Halvorson, Erik
Hans Isbrandtsen, Joseph Anthony Lenihan, Adam J. Lewis, Peter R. Kellerman, Teddy Maloney, Francis Noel McGuinn, Christopher D. Mello, Cheryl Monyak, Lindsay Stapleton Morehouse, Robert Walter Noonan, Mike A. Pelletier, Michael C. Rothberg, Jason E. Sabbag, Stacey Leigh
Sanders, Frederick Varacchi, Gregory Kamal Bruno Wachtler, Martin Phillips “Buff” Wohlforth, and Charles Alan Zion