WARREN – The town came together this morning to honor the fallen, 23 years after the atrocity of 9/11, where the courage of Americans prevailed finally over and above an act of terrorist cowardice.

Mayor Victor Sordillo asked the Warren Middle School Choir to sing the National Anthem.

The mayor proceeded to thank first responders, including police, fire, and EMS. He also noted the courage on that fateful day of teachers, “who are often forgotten.”

The Warren Township Police Department Color Guard laid a wreath in front of the town’s 9/11 Memorial and the mayor asked for a moment of silence in honor of the nearly 3,000 Americans who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001.

The ceremony was the same, or close to the same today, all over the Garden State, home to 750 New Jerseyans who perished on that day of infamy.