remembering long islanders lost on Sept. 11, memorial setting.

Greater Long Island
Kevin Redding
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Sep 10, 2026

Remembering the Long Islanders we lost on 9/11, 25 years later

Twenty-five years after the towers fell, GLI looks back on six Long Islanders lost on Sept. 11 — a small sampling of the hundreds still remembered by name across Nassau and Suffolk today.

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