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Poll: Most in N.J. won’t mark 9/11
Though painful to remember, most New Jersey residents choose not to forget the events of Sept. 11, 2001.
But only about one in four say they plan to do something special to mark the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on U.S. soil, according to a new poll.
Thirty percent of those surveyed in the Monmouth University/NJ Press Media poll think about 9/11 on a regular basis, while another 46 percent do so from time to time. Some 14 percent will attend a public ceremony marking the anniversary of the deadly attacks, and 12 percent plan to commemorate the date in private. While 4 percent don’t know what they’ll do, 70 percent say they’ll do nothing out of the ordinary.
“The memory lingers 10 years later, but most residents seemed to have moved on from the shadows of those events,” said Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute in West Long Branch. (Clurfeld, Gannett)