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Rockville Centre's 9/11 Memorial is regularly visited by families of those lost.

Bin Laden's death evokes pain, patriotism in the Rockville Centre community

The U.S. military mission that resulted in the death of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden last weekend evoked a range of emotions in people with connections to Rockville Centre, which lost nearly 50 residents in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. more

Judy Rattner | 5/4/11

Locals react to bin Laden’s death

Late in the night on May 1, President Barack Obama announced that, after nearly 10 years of searching, the United States had located and killed Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist … more

Alex Costello | 5/4/11

Bin Laden's death 'bittersweet' for Valley Streamers

On Sunday night, the phone rang at the Palmer house in Valley Stream. It was a family member, telling Debbie and Dana Palmer to turn on the news. They did, and for 45 minutes they sat in front of the television, learning that Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, had been killed. more

By Andrew Hackmack | 5/4/11

A steel beam from the World Trade Center now forms the centerpiece of a 9/11 memorial at the Brookside School in North Merrick. Local residents say that Osama bin Laden’s death brings a small measure of comfort, but nearly 10 years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, people still feel the psychic pain of losing their loved ones, friends and neighbors.

Merrick-Bellmore ‘thrilled’ that bin Laden is gone

“I’m thrilled that he’s gone.” That is what Merokean Carol Gies had to say on Monday morning about the death of Osama bin Laden, shortly after President Obama announced to the world on Sunday night that the al Qaeda leader and 9/11 mastermind was killed in a 40-minute firefight with U.S. Navy seals at a fortified compound outside of Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital. more

By Scott Brinton | 5/2/11

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