9/11 memorial: White Plains recalls a sunny day of darkness
Photo credit: Xavier Mascarenas | Members of the White Plains Common Council place a wreath on the 9/11 memorial at Liberty Park in White Plains during A Community Gathering of Remembrance and Hope. The memorial at the park bears the name of the six local residents who perished that day. (Sept. 11, 2012)
On a cloudless, sun-dappled day in Liberty Park -- not unlike the calamitous day 11 years ago -- White Plains officials and residents paid tribute to six city residents and all the others lost in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
Mayor Thomas Roach called Sept. 11 a defining moment, like the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
"It was a day just like today, clear blue skies," he...
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