SCRANTON, Pa. — A few dozen folding chairs fill the parking lot at McDade Park in front of Scranton's 9/11 Memorial, flanked on either side by members of the city's police and fire departments.

Though the number of people filling those chairs has waned through the years, the resolve to remember has never wavered.

"I come every year because of the fact that I want to pay my respects to all the people that died. It was a horrendous thing; I remember living through it. I remember being at work and seeing the first plane go through. We thought it was an accident. And then we saw the second, and we knew it wasn't," said Patricia Turel, Old Forge.

The ceremony honors the nearly three thousand lives lost on September 11th, 2001, but singles out 11 residents of Lackawanna County, two who died i

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