9/11 victims honored at Eisenhower Park ceremony
Quick ReadMen and women called off the names of the 344 Nassau residents who died on Sept. 11. Each read a few dozen names and ended their list with the loved one they lost.
Photo credit: Joe Epstein | Cheryl Salina touches the name of her former boss, Mary Weiman, who died during the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. (Sept. 9, 2009)
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Jo Ann Lagone watched reverently as the color guard marched in Eisenhower Park against a backdrop of two steel towers representing the World Trade Center. She reflected on the loss of two giants in her life: her husband, Thomas, a police officer, and her brother-in-law, Peter, a firefighter.
Both men died at Ground Zero after responding to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
So Lagone, 51,...
