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Day was a catastrophe for state with nearly 700 residents lost
Memories of the terror attacks on that sunny morning of Sept. 11, 2001 still linger, but maybe 10 years is still too soon.
Most New Jerseyans say they won’t do anything special to mark the 10th anniversary of the attacks in New York, Washington and over Pennsylvania, according to a Monmouth University/NJ Press Media Poll made public Friday.
The survey also found New Jerseyans do not feel it is overly important to reconstruct a tower at the World Trade Center site.
Three-in-ten New Jerseyans (30 percent) say they still think about what happened on 9/11 on a regular basis, and another 46 percent say they think about it from time to time. One-in-four say they rarely (19 percent) or never (5 percent) think about the attacks.
Younger adults age 18 to 34 (65 percent) are somewhat less likely than those age 35 to 54 (81 percent) or 55 and older (77 percent) to think about those events at least occasionally.
When the poll was conducted in early August, 85 percent of residents said they were already aware that the 10th anniversary was approaching. About 1-in-4 said they plan to do something special to mark the anniversary, including 14 percent who will attend a public ceremony and 12 percent who had planned a private observance.“The 9/11 attacks left an indelible imprint on the Garden State, claiming the lives of nearly 700 New Jerseyans. The memory lingers ten years later, and many New Jerseyans still think of those events from time to time,” Prof. Patrick Murray, the poll’s director, said.
Just under half of New Jerseyans (45 percent) feel that the country is now more safe from terrorism than it was prior to the attacks, while 19 percent say it is less safe. Another 35 percent say the U.S. is no more or no less safe from terrorism than it was ten years ago.
The poll findings are similar for New York City itself, 47 percent of New Jerseyans say the city is now more safe from terrorism than it was in 2001, 13 percent say it is less safe, and 36 percent say there has been no change in how safe the city is from terrorism. Interestingly, men (51 percent for U.S. and 52 percent for NYC) are more likely than women (39 percent for U.S. and 43 percent for NYC) to say we are now more safe from terrorism than we were ten years ago.
A new building, sometimes called the Freedom Tower, is currently being erected at the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan. The poll found that 1-in-3 New Jerseyans (33 percent) think it is very important to build a new tower at this location, 29 percent think it is somewhat important, and 35 percent say it is not important. Residents of South (42 percent) and Central (37 percent) Jersey are more likely than those in North Jersey (28 percent) to say that it’s not at all important to build another tall building on the World Trade Center site. Still, only 35 percent of northern residents say it is “very important” to do so.
