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9/11 memorial breaks ground in Nesconset
Photo credit: Ed Betz | Supporters look on during a groundbreaking ceremony for a park honoring 9/11 first-responders in Nesconset. (April 3, 2011)
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Residents, volunteers, lawmakers and families of 9/11 rescue workers who died in the years after the attacks gathered in Nesconset Sunday to break ground on a monument and memorial park dedicated to those who said they were sickened by the toxic dust that swirled over Ground Zero more than nine years ago.
"They made sacrifices that we live with every day," said Greta Helmke of Hauppauge,...
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