“Never Forget” has been forgotten. A startling number of 9/11 monuments around the country have been vandalized or fallen into disrepair, including a $2 million Nassau County memorial that bears the names of heroes and residents killed that day. Visitors to Eisenhower Park in East Meadow last week found the base of a fountain that displays two 30-foot-tall aluminum towers marred by paint peeling in an eerie, ghost-like shape. Black marble tiles surrounding the structure are missing and boarded up. Others are coming loose, and some are streaked with oozing white adhesive. Graffiti was scrawled across a section facing the wall of 10 plaques honoring all 344 county residents murdered in the...
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