A play derived from the aftermath of 9/11 will be performed later this month to raise funds for the Lebanon County First Responders Memorial.
Bruce Daub, president of the Lebanon County First Responders Memorial, told LebTown that “The Guys” is will be staged at two venues on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 23-25.
The play is about a New York City Fire Department captain named Nick who must write eulogies for eight men who died in the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. He enlists the aid of a journalist for the task.
“It’s a very touching and sometimes funny play,” Daub said.
According to Daub, the Friday and Sunday performances will be at the Lebanon Community Theater and the Saturday show will be in the banquet hall at Mount Zion Fire Company. Tickets – $20 at the theater, $10 at the fire hall – can be purchased online by scanning the barcodes on the poster (see below) or at the door of both venues.
Food and adult beverages will be available at Mount Zion.
The memorial, he added, is “just about complete.”
Daub and other local organizers began working to create a Lebanon County First Responders Memorial in 2020, with plans to install it at the new 911 Communications Center in North Cornwall Township. The county is funding a portion of the project, Daub said.
The memorial is partly completed and can be seen near the parking lot at the 911 center, Daub said. Eventually, it will include plaques bearing the names of first responders who have died in the line of duty.
A local Eagle Scout candidate is working on a history of those who have died in the performance of their duties. “He is making barcodes … that can be scanned at the site,” Daub said. The barcodes will link to a history of what happened to each person named on the memorial.
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“Our focus now is to raise some money to provide for the families of future Lost in the Line of Duty personnel,” Daub noted. “That may be in the line of scholarships, benevolent funds, or maybe aid with burial funds.”
Some of the money raised “may still go for construction in the future if we decide to add anything” to the memorial, he added.
Previously, he said, bricks were sold to raise funds for the memorial “but those are no longer available.”
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