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Remembering 9/11

Retired Chap. (Col.) Jacob Z. Goldstein addresses dozens of service members, civilian employees, families, retirees, emergency responders and other community members at the 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony Sept. 11 at the Dix Chapel on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. Goldstein spent five months coordinating relief efforts at Ground Zero in New York City following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Salvatore Ottaviano/Released)

Remembering 9/11

Joint Base MDL hosts 9/11 Remembrance

Published Sept. 14, 2015
By Staff Sgt. Shawn Morris
99th Regional Support Command

JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. -- Dozens of service members, civilian employees, families, retirees, emergency responders and other community members attended the 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony Sept. 11 at the Dix Chapel here.

Keynote speaker for the event was retired Chap. (Col.) Jacob Z. Goldstein, who spent five months coordinating relief efforts at Ground Zero in New York City following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

"The experience that I had told me how great our country was, and is," said Goldstein, who deployed several times in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. "The attacks of that day brought out the best in America."

The remembrance ceremony also featured a wreath laying, candle lighting and moment of silence to honor the nearly 3,000 people killed in the attacks against the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and southern Pennsylvania where a fourth plane crashed before reaching its target.

"If the walls could talk, we would hear 3,000 heroic stories because everybody was a hero in their own way," said Goldstein, who wore his Army uniform and boots from Ground Zero during the ceremony. "It affected America that day, and the world that day, for days and months and many years going forward."