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By Michael D. Pitman, Staff Writer Updated 2:39 PM Thursday, September 9, 2010

HAMILTON — A few years before the 9/11 attacks, David Pickering rode along with Rescue Co. 1 in Manhattan.

He went to New York City to see a firefighter friend and met Joe Angelini Sr., a 40-year veteran of the NYC Fire Department.

“I just saw how well respected he was by everyone within his company,” said Pickering, 48, a volunteer part-time firefighter with Liberty Twp. and full-time captain with Colerain Twp.

Angelini Sr. and his son died when they responded to the attacks on the World Trade Center towers.

Pickering is to be the keynote speaker at the Butler County Fire Chiefs Association 9/11 Remembrance ceremony Saturday, Sept. 11, at the Fallen Firefighters Memorial in Hamilton.

“It’s still fresh as though it was yesterday for me,” Pickering said of the attacks nine years ago.

Pickering, who arrived in NYC a day after the attacks to assist in cleanup efforts, said he is still amazed how Manhattan transformed from a bustling metropolis to a ghost town.

“It was not New York City,” said the 25-year firefighter veteran. “It was like a war zone. There was dust and debris everywhere.”

The ceremony Saturday is one of several planned around the county. The Butler County Police Chiefs Association and the Fairfield Rotary Club are set to host a ceremony in Fairfield.

“I think there’s a lot of people that’s truly forgotten the emotional aspects of what happened in this country on that day,” said Richard St. John, Fairfield Twp. police chief and president of the county police chiefs association.

Area 9/11 remembrances

Many communities in Butler and Warren counties will hold remembrance ceremonies for those who died nine years ago when terrorists attacked the U.S.

Oxford: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 10, on the plaza at King Library at Miami University.

Lebanon: 11:30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 10, in the Commissioner’s Meeting Room of the Warren County Administration Building, 406 Justice Drive and 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 11, at the Warren County Common Pleas Court building, 500 Justice Drive.

Monroe: 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 11, in front of the city building, 233 S. Main St.

Hamilton: 8:45 a.m. Saturday at the Fallen Firefighters Memorial, 101 S. Monument Street, next to the Fitton Center.

West Chester Twp.: 9:59 a.m. Saturday at Voice of America shopping center at the Veterans Memorial.

Fairfield: 11 a.m. Saturday at the Village Green amphitheater, 301 Wessel Drive.

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