World Trade Center
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, nineteen al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jets laden with
fuel for transcontinental flights. American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon and United Airlines Flight 93
crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania after the passengers stormed its cockpit. Meanwhile, American Airlines
Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the North and South towers respectively of the World Trade Center
in New York City.
Among the nearly 3,000 victims of the terrorist attacks, 343 were New York City fire fighters and 60 were police officers
from New York City and the New York/New Jersey Port Authority. Included in that number was retired State Police Lieutenant
Colonel Ferdinand V. Morrone #1858, who was the director of the Port Authority Police Department in Jersey City, New Jersey.
He was last seen on the 67th floor of Tower One of the World Trade Center, assisting the many victims who were attempting to
escape as the tower collapsed.
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Upon learning of the attacks, the New Jersey State Police immediately mobilized to assist with both the rescue and later the
recovery of victims and forensic evidence. Units such as Marine Police, Crime Scene Investigation, K-9, and Task Force One-Urban
Search and Rescue Team were among the many that responded to the national disaster.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey donated this piece of steel, part of an I-Beam from one of the World Trade Center
towers, to the New Jersey State Police Museum and Learning Center on August 28, 2010. It bears the serial number H-0157d.
The steel is exhibited to honor not only the victims of the terrorist attacks and the brave rescue workers who selflessly risked
their lives for others, but also to honor the men and women of the New Jersey State Police who relentlessly strive to keep our
State safe.
In September 1934, at a New York service station, a man paid for his gasoline with a $10.00 gold certificate. Because the
US had officially gone off the gold standard in 1933, the station attendant wrote the purchaser's license number on the
$10.00 bill. This lead broke the case when an alert bank teller notified the authorities of the gold certificate. The serial
number matched with one that appeared on the list of Lindbergh ransom money serial numbers. The license number was traced to
Bruno Richard Hauptmann who was arrested on September 19, 1934 at which time another ransom bill was found in his wallet.
The following day $13,760 of the ransom money was found in Hauptmann's garage. A floorboard in Hauptmann's attic was found to
match the wood used for one of the rails in the kidnap ladder. Handwriting samples were taken from Hauptmann and found by
experts to match the writing of the ransom notes. He was extradited from New York to New Jersey to be tried in the state and
county in which the crime occurred.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remeber them.
