Making my way this morning from the Sept. 11 memorial ceremony at Rockland Community College to the Rockland County Memorial in Haverstraw Bay County Park, I stopped for a cup of coffee in Mount Ivy.

Walking into David’s Bagel’s, I passed under their television, tuned to the ceremony at Ground Zero, where first responders this year are reading the names of those lost in the terror attacks.

The first name I heard was that of Bernard Favuzza of Ramapo.

After working for eight years with the list of individuals who perished who had links to Rockland, I knew there would be a burst of familiar names.

There wasn’t much of a line, but as I waited to be served, I heard Sean Fegan, a former Blauvelt resident. Then Kristen Fiedel, whose family lives in New City and Thomas Fitzpatrick, who lived in Tuckahoe, but whose in-laws live in Spring Valley.

Before I left the shop, they read the names of Carl Flickinger of Congers, Thomas Foley, a New York City firefighter from West Nyack and Andrew Fredericks of Suffern, another FDNY member who was a nationally respected fire instructor and expert on hose nozzles.

Steve Furman of Wesley Hills, one of the last few F’s, completed the Rockland roll call  of eight familiar names.

For most within range of that television, they went by without note, just that many more names in a list that would go on for hours.

But for eight families here, for friends, relatives and colleagues, they were the focus of the day’s pain, the day’s memories.

And for one “keeper of the list,” they were faces flashing by in a matter of a few minutes — firefighters, a single mom, the Boy Scout leader, an Irish immigrant, brokers and an investment banker — each one a life story learned over eight long years and every one of them cut short.