In Remembrance of 9/11

Twenty-three years ago, on the morning of September 11, United Airlines Flight 175 and American Airlines Flight 11 departed from Boston en route to California before hijackers crashed them into the North and South towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. American Airlines Flight 77 hit the Pentagon, while passengers attempted to overtake United Airlines Flight 93 from hijackers before it crashed in a field in Pennsylvania.

Five years ago, Bill Cookson of the City’s Parks and Recreation Department and groundskeeper of the athletic field at Winterberry Park started paying tribute to the fallen heroes of 9/11. This was his first 9/11 creation for the Winterberry Athletic Field.

Yesterday, I stopped by the field as he was finishing the memorial for this year – 2024, to be shared with the Marco Island Senior Softball players as they arrive for their pickup game on Wednesday. Bill was almost finished.

Bill pointed to the young boys practicing soccer at the other end of the field and remarked – “I don’t think they know what 9/11 was.”

But for the senior softball players arriving for the pick-game on – they know exactly where they were when they heard that the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were hit.

2,977 people killed in the terror attack of September 11, 2001.

Thanks to Bill Cookson for sharing your 9/11 memorial.