Photo courtesy of NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi
NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi | North Central Bronx joined various elected officials at Jacobi Medical Center in Morris Park on the morning of Thursday, Sept. 11, to honor those who lost their lives 24 years ago in the September 11th attacks of 2001.
Photo courtesy of NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi
Hospital leadership, doctors, nurses, and staff joined elected leaders including Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson, State Sen. Jamaal Bailey (S.D. 36), State Sen. Nathalia Fernandez (S.D. 34), Assemblyman Michael Benedetto (A.D. 82), Assemblyman John Zaccaro Jr. (A.D. 80) and City Council Majority Leader Amanda Farias (C.D. 18) in addition to various community leaders, and relatives of the fallen at Jacobi’s 9/11 Memorial located on the hospital’s campus for the occasion to pay their respects.
Photo courtesy of NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi
The program included a rendition of the national anthem, prayer, a poetry recital, and a reading of the names of around 200 Bronxites who lost their lives that fateful day. The names were read by Bailey, Fernandez, Benedetto, Zaccaro Jr, Farias, and Gibson.
For more 9/11-related coverage, click here, and to read a recent op-ed on 9/11, click here.
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