Some 75 miles separate Long Beach Island from New York’s Ground Zero, where 22 years ago on Sept. 11 nearly 3,000 people were killed after two planes crashed into the World Trade Center towers. Time and distance melted away as the Long Beach Island Consolidated School District commemorated the events of Sept. 11, 2001 with the lowering of the flag to half-mast at both its schools on Monday.
The events at the LBI Grade School in Ship Bottom and the Ethel A.
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