Hanover Township Remembers 9/11

Dr. Alfred Khallouf

As it has done for the last eleven years, Hanover Township remembered. Though September 11 was a busy weekday, Supervisors Boy Scout Troop 352 and about fifty residents paused to reflect on what Supervisor Glenn Walbert called his generation's Pearl Harbor. Following a brief ceremony, scouts retired hundreds of used American flags under the supervision of Scoutmaster Michael Caffrey.

Doctor Alfred Khallouf, a Township resident who spent nine years in the Air Force as a dentist, was in his first week of active duty the Twin Towers were hit. When his parents moved here from Syria, they had nothing. "This country gave us the opportunity to turn nothing into something," he said.

Although Dr. Khallouf participated in no firefights, "I was saving the world, one tooth at a time."

LTC Tim Brooks, who served both in Iraq and Afghanistan and is currently with the Allentown National Guard, watched as flag after flag was fed into twin pyres that provided a brief reminder of the conflagration at the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001.

LTC Tim Brooks, an American hero.

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