“Time
is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting.
We will remember every rescuer who died in honor. We will remember every family
that lives in grief. We will remember the fire and the ash, the last phone
calls, the funerals of the children.”
~ President George W. Bush
~ November 11, 2001
~ born 1946
~43rd President of the United
States of America
~ 2001-2009
An
American flag, rosary, NYPD shirt adorned with messages of remembrance, a green
teddy bear and a card bearing hugs are among the items on the Memorial Altar
for 9/11 Remembrance in St. Paul’s Chapel of Trinity Church Wall Street, New
York City.
Someone
from 3,000 miles away in Seattle, Washington, penned the message, at left, “We
are here always in heart and soul for all those who have been touched by 911.
Embrace our unification and rise above taller than the Trade Centers.” What a
beautiful and poignant message.
Most
of the 2,977 who perished on that surreal and devastating day were civilians –
as well as 343 firefighters and 71 law enforcement officers who died in the
World Trade Center and on the ground in New York City, and another law
enforcement officer who died when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a
field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Fifty-five military personnel died at the
Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia. A total of 2,606 died in the World
Trade Center and in the surrounding area. The attacks were the deadliest
terrorist act in world history, and the most devastating attack on United
States soil since the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
The
Episcopal parish at the corner of Broadway and Wall Street was a refuge for
relief workers after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. A sculpture
in front of the church was made out of a giant sycamore tree destroyed on 9/11.
I
shot this on a beautiful spring day in mid-April in Lower Manhattan.
