In Plymouth, for today’s generation the coordinated terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 is perhaps simply a chapter in a history book. But for others it’s marked by where they were and how they felt, Selectmen Dick Quintal is on of those.
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Selectman Quintal remembers:
“I remember where I was, like everybody does, and I remember walking in the living room that day—on the news and watching that tower come down. And I just had to sit on the couch and the tears started pouring out of my eyes. Everybody wanted to help somebody”
And Dick Quintal’s way of helping was to invest his own money in building a memorial to the victims:
“It started out as just a couple of statuettes which we still have here.”
The memorial, which Selectman Quintal turned over to the town, is the first of its kind:
“It was the first one in this county to list all the victims of all the sites.”
The memorial itself took a hit from vandals, earlier this year but the town’s firefighters came to the rescue to restore the site.
