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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.

Cheryl Salina touches the name of her former

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)

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,...

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