WHEELING — Area residents are invited to gather and remember the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks during the annual Community-Wide September 11 Service of Remembrance slated for noon Thursday at Heritage Port in Wheeling.

It has been 24 years since terrorists hijacked commercial airliners and crashed them into the Twin Towers in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and a third plane crashed in a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Nearly 3,000 people died as a result of the attacks and thousands more have died due to illnesses related to recovery and cleanup efforts at the sites.

While it was a shocking tragedy with a still-lasting impact, it also brought the nation together.

Rabbi Joshua Lief of Temple Shalom, Wheeling, helps organize the annual ceremony. He hopes p

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