Governor Ned Lamont today announced that he is directing U.S. and state flags in Connecticut to remain lowered at half-staff on Monday, September 11, 2023, in remembrance of the nearly 3,000 people who were killed in the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.
Flags in Connecticut are also currently lowered to half-staff in honor of Hartford Police Officer Bobby Garten, who died on Wednesday night while serving in the line of duty. Flags should continue flying at half-staff for this purpose until sunset on the date of Officer Garten’s interment, which has not yet been determined. The Office of the Governor will send out a notification when flags should be returned to full-staff.
In addition, Governor Lamont announced today that the state will illuminate the Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge in New Haven – informally known by many residents as the Q Bridge – in red, white, and blue lights beginning at dusk on the evenings of Sunday, September 10, 2023, and Monday, September 11, 2023, in recognition of the anniversary of the attacks. Beacons capable of projecting light nearly six miles into the clear night sky will be lit until the early morning hours.
Connecticut’s official memorial honoring the victims of the attacks is located on a peninsula at Sherwood Island State Park in Westport, where on a clear day the Manhattan skyline can be viewed across the Long Island Sound. It features a stone engraved with the names of the 161 people with ties to the state who were killed in the attacks. The state park was chosen as the site for the memorial because it is the location where many people in the immediate hours following the attacks gathered to observe the devastation on Lower Manhattan from across the sound. The site was also used by the Connecticut National Guard in the following days as a staging area for Connecticut’s relief efforts to New York City.
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Connecticut Remembers
Names of the 161 people with ties to Connecticut who were killed in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks:
- Laurence Abel
- Bryan C. Bennett
- Jeffrey D. Bittner
- Christopher J. Blackwell, FDNY
- Allen Patrick Boyle
- Alexander Braginsky
- Francis Henry (Frank) Brennan
- Thomas M. Brennan
- Joseph M. Calandrillo
- Edward Calderon
- Sandra Campbell
- Alejandro Castano
- Juan Ceballos
- Stephen P. Cherry
- Kevin F. Cleary, Esq.
- Geoffrey W. Cloud
- Keith Eugene Coleman
- Scott Thomas Coleman
- Margaret Conner
- Kevin P. Connors
- Joseph John Coppo
- Dolores Costa
- Brian Thomas Cummins
- Paul Curioli
- Patrick Danahy
- Anthony Demas
- Lt. Kevin Donnelly, FDNY
- John Bruce Eagleson
- Michael Egan
- Ulf Ramm Ericson
- Eric B. Evans
- Wendy R. Faulkner
- Edward T. Fergus, Jr.
- Bradley Fetchet
- Paul M. Fiori
- John Fiorito
- Bennett Lawson Fisher
- Peter C. Fry
- Richard Peter Gabriel, Sr.
- Richard S. Gabrielle
- James A. Gadiel
- Thomas E. Galvin
- Osseni Mama Garba
- Christopher Samuel Gardner
- Peter Alan Gay
- Peter Gerard Gelinas
- Robert Gerlich
- Lawrence Getzfred
- Evan Hunter Gillette
- Ronald Gilligan
- Steven Lawrence Glick
- Wilder A. Gomez
- Kiran Kumar Reddy Gopu
- Edwin J. Graf, III
- Donald F. Greene
- James A. Greenleaf, Jr.
- Pedro Grehan
- James D. Halvorson
- Sean S. Hanley
- Christine Lee Hanson
- Peter Burton Hanson
- Sue Kim Hanson
- Timothy John Hargrave
- Michele Heidenberger
- H. Joseph Heller
- John Henwood
- Robert Higley, II
- James J. Hobin
- Judith Florence Hofmiller
- Paul R. Hughes
- William Christopher Hunt
- Thomas Edward Hynes
- John F. Iskyan
- Ariel Louis Jacobs
- Michael Grady Jacobs
- Mark Steven Jardim
- Robert Thomas Jordan
- Richard M. Keane
- Peter R. Kellerman
- Maurice Patrick Kelly
- William Hill Kelly, Jr.
- Amy King
- Glenn Davis Kirwin
- Stephen LaMantia
- Gary E. Lasko
- Robert A. Lawrence, Jr.
- Joseph A. Lenihan
- Adam J. Lewis
- Steven B. Lillianthal
- Garry W. Lozier
- Michael J. Lyons
- Edward "Teddy" F. Maloney
- Ada Mason
- Kevin Michael McCarthy
- Juliana McCourt
- Ruth McCourt
- Eamon McEneaney
- Michael G. McGinty
- Francis McGuinn
- William J. Meehan, Jr.
- Eskedar Melaku
- Raymond Joseph Metz, III
- Joel Miller
- Michael M. Miller
- Cheryl Ann Monyak
- Lindsay S. Morehouse
- Jude Moussa
- Cesar A. Murillo
- Christopher William White Murphy
- Daniel Robert Nolan
- Robert W. Noonan
- Timothy M. O'Brien
- Scott J. O'Brien
- James Andrew O'Grady
- Christopher Orgielewicz
- Margaret Quinn Orloske
- Thomas Anthony Palazzo
- James Matthew Patrick
- Mike A. Pelletier
- Joshua Piver
- Roger Mark Rasweiler
- Jean Destrehan Roger
- Sean P. Rooney
- Michael C. Rothberg
- Jason E. Sabbag
- Jesus Sanchez
- Stacey Leigh Sanders
- Sean Schielke
- John B. Schwartz
- Randy Scott
- Barbara A. Shaw
- Michael John Simon
- Heather Lee Smith
- Dianne Bullis Snyder
- Gregory T. Spagnoletti
- George E. Spencer, III
- Derek J. Statkevicus
- Craig William Staub
- Andrew Stergiopoulos
- Madeline Sweeney
- Michael C. Tarrou
- Thomas F. Theurkauf, Jr.
- Eric Raymond Thorpe
- Amy E. Toyen
- Tyler Ugolyn
- Jonathan J. Uman
- Allen V. Upton
- Bradley H. Vadas
- Edward Raymond Vanacore
- Frederick Varacchi
- James Thomas Waters, Jr.
- Jeffrey David Wiener
- Candace Lee Williams
- John P. Williamson
- William Eben Wilson
- David H. Winton
- Christopher W. Wodenshek
- Martin Phillips Wohlforth
- John Works
- Edward P. York
- Charles A. Zion
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Submitted by Southbury, CT
