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HOBOKEN — NJ Transit officials unveiled a memorial on the banks of the Hudson River in honor of the people who took their trains and buses to work on Sept. 11, 2001, and never came home and in recognition of the NJ Transit workers who got people evacuated from Manhattan to their homes that horrific day.

“This is sad time for all of us in this region. It is a time to remember, but it is also a time celebrate the bravery and dedication to help us get through that day,” said NJ Transit Executive Director James Weinstein.

The plaque was installed at a area of Hoboken Terminal that overlooks the Hudson River and downtown Manhattan, where 1 World Trade Center was rising above the skyline during the ceremony Wednesday.

It honors “the men and women who gave their lives” on Sept. 11 and “the men and women of NJ Transit who came forward to serve on that tragic day.”

A poignant remembrance were offered at the ceremony by NJ Transit Police Chief Christopher Trucillo, who was chief of the Port Authority police, which lost 37 officers that day.

“The greatest rescue effort occurred at the World Trade Center, but it didn’t end there. It continued across the river, where ferries brought the wounded and the frightened,” Trucillo said. “When they hit the shore, they found all of you, the first responders and NJ Transit employees, to comfort them, treat the injured, assure them and to let them know we’d get them home safe.”

As ferries and other watercraft brought people from Manhattan after the attacks, fleets of NJ Transit buses were at the waterfront and Liberty State Park, which had been set up as a triage area. All rail and bus

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