Over Labor Day weekend at Lyndhurst City Hall, the Tunnel to Towers Foundation presented the 9/11 Never Forget Mobile Exhibit, a tribute to all who lost their lives on September 11, 2001, including the 343 members of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY).

The exhibit included a remarkable group of artifacts relating to that fateful day on September 11, 2001, which were presented by retired first responders who experienced the catastrophe firsthand.

Audio recordings of dispatchers responding to initial calls played, while retired FDNY Lieutenant Frank Bocce related the events of that day. A large photograph showed images of hundreds of New York firefighters and police officers who lost their lives.

Small groups were allowed into the exhibit. The visitors seemed stunned. It was hardly any wonder.

Surveillance footage showed how crowded the towers were on a normal day. Lt. Bocce explained that the death toll would have been far greater if the attacks had occurred one hour later, as employees arrived at work.

A half million people were evacuated from lower Manhattan that morning by boat, the largest water rescue since the 1940 evacuation of Dunkirk during World War II.

The exhibit makes one feel as if the event was yesterday, not nearly a quarter century ago.

It was moving, and something well worth seeing.