WEST LONG BRANCH – Monmouth University President Paul R. Brown will dedicate the university’s 9/11 Veterans Memorial at 9 a.m. Monday, Nov. 11, which is Veterans Day.
During the event, Life Trustee Judy Eisenberg, and her husband Lewis M. Eisenberg, will be honored for their generous donation in support of the memorial. Lewis Eisenberg was the chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey at the time of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center.
The dedication will be followed by the National Remembrance Day Roll Call, a synchronized reading of the names of the service members killed in the line of duty since Sept. 11, 2001. The nationwide grassroots effort has more than 80 colleges and universities participating in 2013. The names of more than 6,700 military personnel, who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan, will be read aloud at the ceremony.
The event will take place at the 9/11 Veterans Memorial, which is located across from the entrance to the Rebecca Stafford Student Center.
The podium is engraved with the message “Here stands once more a symbol to 9/11 Heroes and America’s Military Veterans.” The podium support was made from a beam pulled from the wreckage of the World Trade Center site.
