September 8, 2011
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We remember The Herald presents a special 10th anniversary reflection on the horror of September 11, 2001, and the hopes that guide our way forward. These are the images of 156 of our Herald-area neighbors who were killed that day. We remember them with respect, and we pay tribute to all the heroes of that awful day and all the days after.
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Pushing upward, with hope There was violence so massive that we wouldn’t — couldn’t — believe it, an instant overwhelming of resources and emotions, chaos and fear in the streets, enormous wreckage, gasping shock and the awesome courage of brave men and women putting duty before safety. Quickly, there followed unfocused anger and inconsolable grief. “The number of casualties,” Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said that day, “will be more than any of us can bear ultimately.” Slowly, there came a graduated comprehension of the immensity of the loss, an anxious awareness of continued local and national danger, proud displays of patriotism and acts of kindness, a resolve to be strong and persevere. Like sudden attacks and national tragedies before, the date became, in one horrible day, infamous. Each day since, now 10 years of days since, we take small steps onward — sometimes successfully, sometimes not — resisting the gravitational pull that keeps us tethered to our anger and loss. Moving out from the source of our pain,
we push upward, with hope, not seeking to live as though that awful day didn’t happen, but trying to prevail against the day’s horrors with strength, faith and resolve. We at the Herald offer this special section in all of this week’s editions as a way of remembering those who were lost with reverence and respect. We hope it also shows what moving forward looks like. The trajectory of progressing from unimagined grief and destruction, to a constructive, productive life of happiness and peace is never straight, whether for individuals or for worksites. There are setbacks and failures, discouragement, bouts of depression and periods when our resources just fail. There are times of great support, and moments of bitter loneliness. But the human spirit is designed to overcome tragedy and malice, to rise above loss, to grow and to prevail. We wish all our readers, especially those who suffered personal loss on September 11, or because of it in the days since, our deepest sympathies.
Photos by Mary Malloy/Herald
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Merrick ■ Merrick’s American Legion Post 1282 is hosting a Sept. 11 memorial ceremony at Veterans Memorial Park at Merrick and Lee Avenues on Sunday, Sept. 11, at 10 a.m. The post recently undertook a beautification project at the park, which centered around a memorial stone dedicated to the victims of the attack.
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Rockville Centre The village will hold two events commemorating Sept. 11.
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■ The Oceanside Interfaith Council will be holding its annual Day of Remembrance on the Schoolhouse Green in Oceanside at 6 p.m. on Sept. 11. The Schoolhouse Green is located on Foxhurst Road, next to School 6. Additionally, the South Shore Sports Complex, at 3505 Hampton Rd., will be holding a Sept. 11 Decade of Remembrance event. For more info visit http://www.southshoresportscomplex. com/911.html
Malverne Bellmore The Bellmore Fire Department will be attending a 5 p.m. mass on Sept, 11 at St. Barnabas the Apostle Catholic Church on Bedford Avenue. Following mass, the fire department will host a short ceremony at 7 p.m. in front of their department headquarters on Pettit Avenue. Members will lay a wreath on top of the memorial in honor of those who lost their lives. The community is invited to attend. ■
■ Sunday Sept. 11at 8 p.m. there will be a candlelight memorial service at the Reese Park gazebo on Church Street.
East Rockaway ■ The village of East Rockaway is hosting a Sept. 11 Memorial Ceremony at 7 p.m. in Memorial Park at the corner of Woods and Atlantic Avenues. The event will feature a candlelight ceremony and a dedication of commemorative World Trade Center beams. All residents are invited. For more information, contact event chairperson Richard Gogarty at (516) 887-8300 or visit rgogarty@villageofeastrockaway.org.
Valley Stream ■ On Sunday, September 11 the Incorporated Village of Valley Stream will conduct a Memorial Service to honor the memory of the lives lost on September 11, 2001. This year, a steel beam artifact from the fallen World Trade Center Towers, secured by the village, will be unveiled. The 15-foot, 3,350-pound beam will ultimately become a permanent part of the garden after it is fashioned into a monument. The service will begin at 11:00 a.m. in the Memorial Garden at Arthur J. Hendrickson Park.
■ The first, a remembrance, will take place on the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks, this Sunday, Sept. 11 at noon, inside the Recreation Center, 111 N. Oceanside Road. The short program will be held at the state-sponsored exhibit, “New York Remembers,” that features museum-quality artifacts, and the stories behind them, that is on display in the Rec Center through the end of September. ■ The village’s annual candlelight vigil at the Sept. 11 memorial in the northwest corner of the Village Green (at Lee and Maple avenues) is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 23. All are welcome. Participants are asked to please bring candles.
Elmont ■ The United Choral Society will perform Sunday, Sept. 11 at 2 p.m. in the Elmont Memorial Library Theatre. The United Choral Society will perform patriotic, Americanthemed musical selections as a memorial tribute marking the 10th anniversary of September 11, 2001. All are welcome.
Five Towns ■ There will be a memorial ceremony and concert featuring the Lawrence Philharmonic Orchestra on Sunday, Sept. 11 at 4 p.m. in Andrew J. Parise Cedarhurst Park. ■ On Friday, Sept. 9 at 8 p.m., Temple Israel, 140 Central Avenue, Lawrence will host a Shabbat service of remembrance for the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum will be joined by Rev. Victor Hall to conduct an interfaith service. All are welcome to attend.
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■ The village of Lynbrook invites all residents to attend the village’s Sept. 11 Memorial Service on Sept. 11 at 6 p.m. at Memorial Park on the grounds of Village Hall, 1 Columbus Dr. For more information, contact village hall at (516) 599-8300.
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A calendar of scheduled memorial ceremonies
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THIS IS THE BROOKLYN SIDE of the bridge. People just trying to get home. Below, the view from the walkway up the Manhattan Bridge.
Photos by Chris Connolly/Herald
A long walk home A Herald editor looks through his photos from 9/11 By CHRIS CONNOLLY I write this assuming it will be true for a lot of my readers: September 11, 2001, was the worst day of my life. It was worse for many than it was for me — I was lucky not to lose my father, a roommate and several close friends who all worked in the towers — but the anger and anguish I felt that day were the most intense I’ve ever known. My father worked on the 100th floor of the North Tower. He lived, and thankfully still lives, in Princeton, New Jersey, where his company, a large insurance firm, maintained an office. My father began requesting a transfer to the office in his town of residence shortly after the first attack on the twin towers in 1993. It was finally implemented in August 2011. My father’s company had offices between floors 93 and 100 of the North Tower. When American Airlines flight 11
hit the building it plowed directly into those suites. No one who was present when the plane hit survived the attack, and 295 of my father’s coworkers were murdered that day. I knew there was a problem at the Trade Center immediately that morning because when I walked out of my apartment in Brooklyn I could see flames and smoke trailing across the gorgeous early autumn sky. This was just moments after the first plane struck and I, like many New Yorkers, first thought some benighted light-aircraft pilot had mistakenly hit one of the buildings. I speed-dialed my papa to assure myself he was safe. My father was home that morning. He was preparing to bike to work — a commute he enjoyed much more than his two-hour treks on NJT. Once I knew my father was safe I made the unlucky decision to head into Manhattan. I worked at a magazine near Bryant Park
at the time, and since we had state of the art access to all news sources I figured I could get the most complete information on the story from there. The trip uptown was a grueling nightmare that escalated at each subsequent station. Those of us on the subway couldn’t follow breaking events, so as better-informed passengers boarded they distributed information to the rest of us. By Chambers Street I knew it was a jet, not a light aircraft, which struck the tower. At 14th Street I learned some sources suspected a terrorist attack. By 42nd we knew the strike was intentional, and as I took the elevator up to my office the second plane hit. I rushed past my desk into the TV room just in time to weather those sick seconds before it was clear the towers would come down. When they did I basically blacked out and spent the next sev-
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THIS WAS SHOT FROM THE APEX OF THE BRIDGE. This was the first picture I pulled out after developing my film on the fifth anniversary of 9/11. I looked at it briefly, then sealed the photos away for another five years.
ALL STREETS below the bridge entrance on the Manhattan side were sealed off by police.
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Continued from previous page eral days stumbling around like a prizefighter knocked out on his feet. A curious effect of the attacks was to transform Manhattan Island into Manhattan, island. The borough morphed from the unimpeachably connected center of the information world into an oblong geographical quandary — a narrow slice of rock surrounded by water from which no one could exit or enter. My brother worked near me at the time, so we hooked up on 45th Street and joined the dizzied hoards stumbling the streets. We both lived in Brooklyn, so we started walking vaguely downtown. As we descended, we passed fellow orphans heading uptown. Many of these were covered in ash from the towers’ collapse. I had, as always, my camera with me that morning, so I shot a roll of film as we made our way home. Our first idea was to help out in whatever small ways we could, so we trooped around to hospitals and clinics looking for places to give blood — they were all full. Then we called a friend who lived on 33rd Street and went to view the carnage from his roof deck. After the bridges were reopened to foot traffic, we walked all the way downtown, near what is now ground zero, and went over the Manhattan Bridge toward home.
A day after the attack I went to see my father. We bought newspapers and spread them out on the table — studying all the available information sources. I remember turning over one page to reveal a shot of a man leaping off the top of the tower to escape the flames. Seeing the photo, my father gasped and turned away like someone glimpsing a savage, gaping wound. On the table by the phone was a list from my father’s office; he was slowly crossing off the names of friends and coworkers as their deaths were confirmed. I never looked at the pictures I took that morning. I still avert my eyes when news stations replay clips of the buildings coming down, and I can’t face any of the cinematic or scholarly examinations of the day. On the fifth anniversary of 9/11 I lived in San Diego and I developed the roll of film I shot the morning of the attack. However, after looking at the first photo — an ugly skid mark of smoke across a cottony sky – I sealed them away. Since then I’ve moved from California to Wisconsin and now I’m back in New York at the Herald. Somehow now I feel I can look at these pictures and share my sad remembrances of that day with our readers. Does this mean I’ve moved on from 9/11? That I’ve found any answers? Of course not. What I have learned to do is to focus
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THIS SCENE was echoed outside every medical care facility we visited. Early reports estimated the death toll at 10,000, 15,000 or even 30,000 and many doctors and nurses simply picked up and went to their workplaces. Because the facilities were already fully-staffed, they ended up waiting outside for patients who would never arrive. my attention where I want it to go when I contemplate September 11. No longer overcome by emotion, I can now look at the pictures I took without succumbing to the endless contemplation of wars, imaginary quests for closure or rumors of revenge. I can look at these images now because I know I can focus on how fast my city bonded in response to the assault. The pictures I’m most entranced by from this roll aren’t those that illuminate the violence of the attack, but those that showcase the jam-packed blood banks and the volunteer nurses and doctors waiting outside overstaffed hospitals for patients to treat. What
I’m able to focus on now are the soldiers and Army reservists who showed up out of nowhere to direct traffic and the citizens who simply went to the Manhattan Bridge with water for people like me who were walking home. After 10 years I can finally look at the images of my long walk home without losing control. Does that mean I’m healed? No. There is no recovery from September 11, 2001; nor should there be. It was the worst day of my life, and I was one of the lucky ones. Comments about this story? CConnolly@liherald. com or (516) 569-4000 ext. 283.
Valley Streamer keeps son’s memory alive By ANDREW HACKMACK Ed Thompson has ensured that his son’s memory will stay alive for a long time. Glenn Thompson was 44 when he was killed on September 11 in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. His body was never recovered. Glenn worked for Cantor Fitzgerald as a bond trader, and was on the 104th floor of the North Tower when the first plane hit. To remember his son, Ed Thompson has put together a memory book, featuring newspaper articles, pictures and letters. Thompson said he started the book shortly after the attack as “just something to do.” “Every once in a while when things aren’t going well,” he said, “I just sit down and read this and it calms me down somewhat.” From his East Argyle Street home in Valley Stream, Thompson talked about all the work that went into creating the memory book. There is Glenn’s birth announcement and baby hair. Copies of the eulogies given by Thompson, a cousin and a friend of Glenn’s are in there. Thompson has kept any newspaper article written about his son, both before and after his death. There is a picture of Glenn from when he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and photos of the World Trade Center scene after the attacks. Some letters in the memory book are special to Thompson. One, from his daughter Christine — Glenn’s sister — outlines all that had transpired that year. There was a letter from the president of SUNY Cortland, Glenn’s alma mater, inviting the Thompson family to
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ED THOMPSON started a memory book about his son, Glenn, soon after he was killed in the terrorist attacks. an Oct. 26, 2002, memorial service for all the Cortland alumni who died in the attacks. Friends of Glenn, many who hadn’t even seen him in years, sent letters to the Thompson family expressing their condolences and sharing memories of their departed friend. A letter from then-Mayor Ed Cahill invited the Thompsons to the village’s annual September 11 memorial service.
Thompson includes in the book an honor roll of all of those who were killed in the terrorist attacks. There is a letter from the former Valley Stream Rotary Club after a tree was dedicated in Glenn’s memory. And Thompson has the certificate from the memory tree he planted in his own backyard. Glenn was born in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and the Thompson family moved to Valley
Stream when he was about 5-years-old. He attended Wheeler Avenue School, Memorial Junior High and Central High School. Glenn enjoyed playing ice hockey, skiing and biking. In his early 30s, Glenn lived for a year in Aspen, Colo., before moving back to New York to work for Cantor Fitzgerald. Thompson said his son loved his job, got to work early in the morning, left late at night and traveled a lot. He left behind his wife, Kai. Ten years later, the morning of September 11 is still clear in Thompson’s mind. “I was shaving and my wife was looking at the TV, which she never does,” he says. At Glenn’s summer home in the Hamptons, Ed and his wife, Violet, decided to pack up and head home to Valley Stream. Coming down the Robert Moses Causeway, Thompson said smoke from the World Trade Center was visible all the way from Captree State Park in Suffolk County. “I never drove so fast in all my life,” he said. Thompson says he attends the village’s September 11 memorial service every year and has twice read the names of victims at the Nassau County ceremony at Eisenhower Park. He also flies a flag outside his home, given to him by the owner of Cantor Fitzgerald, with the names of all those who died. But nothing is more special to him then that memory book. A modest blue binder with its contents in clear pages, Thompson said he feels better when he sits down to look through it. The binder usually stays in Glenn’s old bedroom, which Thompson said has pretty much been “left as it is.”
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A long walk home
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Remembering that day of horror Three emergency responders describe their experiences By JEFF BESSEN and ANN E. FRIEDMAN It seems as though there are as many personal stories about that awful day in September 2001 than there have been tears shed since. These three recollections, from Five Towns residents who helped at ground zero, tell what they experienced that day and the days after.
Anthony Rivelli Sr. When Inwood resident Anthony Rivelli Sr. looks back on what happened on September 11, he says its hard to place it in time. “That’s it’s 10 years ago is scary because it feels like it just happened or it happened 50 years ago,” said Rivelli, a retired Nassau County police officer who was then with the county’s Emergency Services unit that assisted in the rescue and recovery mission at the site. Having finished his night shift, Rivelli was sleeping when the towers were hit and was awakened ned by phone calls about what was happening. He knew his cousin, ousin, Joseph R. Rivelli Jr., a New York City firefighter with Ladder adder Company 25, was working that day. Rivelli headed to Bellmore where his unit is headquartered. Then they received eived their orders to head into the city. His unit met up with New York City and Suffolk police emergency service units ts at Stuyvesant High School, which was being used as a command post. “Honestly, it was unreal, debris bris was still flying up in the air until ntil darkness,” Rivelli said about being eing at ground zero. “We were drillingg and repelling in the buildings in joint training with the Port Authority just a few weeks [earlier]. All of a sudden, the towers are done. We were focusing on the e rescue. And that was what was so puzzling. zling. No matter where we searched — different voids — we were not finding ng anything. It was not until later we were aware of victims. We descended further and found Port Authority officers.” He had received cell phone ne calls throughout the day asking aboutt his cousin Joe, but Rivelli didn’t have anyy information. “I kind of realized it then,” Rivelli said, that his cousin was dead. “On Day Two, I ran into guys from Ladder 25 and they were missing all seven, and nd I realized they were all gone. We continontinued the rescue until it was deemed d not a rescue. We thought we would find nd a pocket (where people could be), but we didn’t.”
THIS BUST and photo of Joseph R. Rivelli Jr., a New York City firefighter who died at ground zero, is part of the memorial that Anthony Rivelli Sr. built in the backyard of his Inwood home to honor his cousin’s memory.
“We were very close, my brothers, me and him were all brothers,” Rivelli said about Joe, who was well known as a coach for the Inwood Buccaneers. Not only did Rivelli lose a cousin and many friends, but it was the beginning of the end of his police career. He has been retired since 2004. “I suffered medically off the job from Sept. 11 and I know emergency colleagues who are still getting sick,” Rivelli said. “I keep getting checked. You have to stay in front of it.” In addition to the bond they have as volunteer firefighters, Rivelli said occasionally his comrades in the Inwood Fire Department will speak about that day, and another bond formed. “We talk about how close we came to getting killed, we make light of it, think of the guys that are gone, then we stop talking,” he said. “Emotion. It’s funny.”
Danny Gluck That Tuesday morning, Woodmere resident Danny Gluck was about to enter an elevator at his Manhatbuilding when he overheard people talktan office build an airplane that crashed into the ing about a World Trade Center. thought a plane clipped the antenna of the “I though said Gluck, then an officer with Nassau building,” sa Auxiliary Police Unit 109. “I didn’t know County Au how sserious it was until my building was evacuated.” He is now captain of the volevacu unteer unit. untee It was chaos outside his building on and West streets. “Cell phones weren’t Vesey an and I’ve never seen lines for the pay working a phones so long,” Gluck said. “I’ve also never seen so many people just standing in the street.” tried to catch a train home but the Gluck tr not running until later that afternoon, trains were n so he had to wait, finally getting back to Woodmere at 3 p.m. “When I got home, Woo turned on the news to see what was I tu happening,” he said. “It was so hard to hap believe that I was down there earlier that beli day. I couldn’t sleep all night.” da The next day, just 24 hours after the attack, Gluck awoke and joined th other members of the Nassau County oth Auxiliary Police to aid in any way they Auxilia could at the World Trade Center site. “Once we got out of Penn Station, we got a ride one of the New York Police Departfrom on vans going to the scene,” he said. “We ment van gathered at a command post and were given hard hats, masks and other equipment and then our assignments.” me Gluck and other volunteers from across the region searched through the acro debris. “It was like a war zone down there,” said. “I helped pull out one of the first he sai bodies.” bodies He worked for the next 12 hours. “Words can’t describe the sight and the “Wor scene,” he said. “It was nice to see peoscen ple come from all over. There were doctors, tors police departments from New Hampshire, Virginia and Massachusetts, Ham fire departments and emergency personnel. Everybody grouped together as so one o to help out.”
When he got home, people asked him what it was like to be there. He would tell them of his different feelings. “It was great to help out and do what you’re trained to do,” he said. “But I knew a lot of people who worked there and it was the first day after the attack so there still wasn’t a lot of information released. People didn’t know what to expect or what to find.” In the proceeding days, Gluck struggled to return to regular life. “It was tough,” he said. “It took a while to get back to my normal routine.” To this day, Gluck hasn’t returned to ground zero. “I’ve just seen photos and what they’ve shown on television,” he said. “After seeing the scene,” he added, “it’s going to take 10 years to rebuild and, sure enough, it’s 10 years later and they’re finally starting to rebuild.” He hopes generations to come will learn from the day, that “if you see something, then say something, because it can happen again.”
John Norman Years ago, as a young fire protection engineer, John Norman had designed the sprinkler system for a portion of the towers, and had been in and out of the buildings for seven years. He had a vacation day on September 11. “When I got a view of the complex and Number Five WTC, there was a lot of fire,” Norman said. “I was just dumbfounded. How could it be burning like that? I had designed a sprinkler system so it wouldn’t burn like that. It was pretty hair raising.” And it became more hair raising for Norman, then a New York City Fire Department chief of Battalion 16 out of Harlem. Off from work and learning about what happened from phone messages, he headed into the city. He heard that all the bridges and tunnels were closed, so Norman went to a previous fire company of his in East New York, Brooklyn, and from there a staging area at the base of the Manhattan Bridge, then to ground zero. “It was burning for quite some time and I saw the south tower go down on TV,” he said. “When I got there, you couldn’t get your bearings. I always used the two towers as a reference point and they weren’t there. It was totally disorienting.” During the first two days of the rescue and recovery effort, Norman worked from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. and then most nights for six consecutive weeks, then, after Nov. 1, once a week. He said he lost more than 100 good friends as entire fire companies had been wiped out. “The people that were lost that day, the talent we lost, what they could have done in their lives,” said Norman of his fellow firefighters. September 11th’s impact will be felt for generations, Norman said, from the toll it takes on the economy’s resources for protection against another attack, to the increased screening at airports. But, it also takes a toll on the individual. “The closer you get to the anniversary, there is depression and anxiety as there is in-your-face coverage,” said Norman, as he noted the health toll it has taken on him and the other emergency responders who served at ground zero. “I get my own physical, and pay attention to the warning signs,” he added, saying that four months after serving at ground zero, he had lost 30 percent of his lung capacity. Retired now for more than four years after serving nearly 30 years a city firefighter, Norman thinks it is important that September 11 is remembered. “We do this to ourselves every generation,” he said likening the attack to Pearl Harbor. “We think nothing bad can happen, but there are bad people who want to hurt us. It is a serious threat and you can’t afford to drop your guard for one second.”
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By AARON AXELSON The beating sound of footsteps echo as thousands of people run, walk or, in some cases, even roll through the tunnel. Sweat runs down their bodies as they throw themselves into a race that holds deep meaning for each of them. They have come from around the world for a variety of personal reasons but they all share the same goal: to honor the life of fallen firefighter Stephen Siller, and the lives of all the other first responders who perished on Sept. 11, 2001. This year’s Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers 5K Race/Walk, set to step off on Sept. 25 at 9:30 a.m., will be the 10th time that participants will retrace the path Siller took to respond to the calls for help from the World Trade Center. Registration is $50 before the deadline of Sept. 19 and is $75 after that date. The participants will gather at the IKEA parking lot at 1 Beard Street in Brooklyn. Siller had just begun heading from his Brooklyn firehouse to his Staten Island home when he heard that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. He immediately strapped on his gear and headed into Manhattan. The Brooklyn Battery Tunnel had already been closed to traffic by the time he arrived, and so he raced through the tunnel on foot with nearly 70 pounds of equipment. Siller heroically lost his life that day in his attempt to save others, but his memory lives on, in part, through the Tunnel to Towers Foundation that sponsors the race. “The idea of doing what Stephen did seemed preposterous to us at first, because we knew how difficult it was to get permission to do anything downtown,” said Russ Siller, Stephen’s eldest brother and co-founder of the foundation. “But we figured, well, let’s try, and the city and fire department and transit authority seemed to be very amenable to it and moved by my brother’s story.” The first race, which spans 3.1 miles, was held in late September in 2002 and attracted about 1,500 participants, a turnout which surprised and moved Russ. It grew each year afterward. This past year, the numbers swelled to about 10,000 and the foundation expects to double that this year. Some of the participants are firefighters, some are Marines and others just want to show their support, Russ said. Some people run, others choose to walk and there are some who have been wounded in a way that they need to use wheelchairs. The race has become an international event, with contingents arriving each year from London and Sweden. But they are all one in their desire to honor the memory of those who perished. “There was never a year where it was less than the previous year. I think it’s kind of liturgical, in a way,” Russ said of the run’s popularity. “There are banners in the tunnel that show the faces of those who died and it’s different, it’s beautiful and it’s haunting.” Since the first race in 2002, the Tunnel to Towers Foundation has raised several million dollars. Some of the funds went toward the creation of Stephen’s House on Staten Island, a temporary home for abused or neglected children. Funding has been used to aid Hurricane Katrina
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THOUSANDS PARTICIPATED IN THE ANNUAL TUNNEL TO TOWERS 5K RACE/WALK that commemorates the journey that fallen firefighter Stephen Siller took to try to help victims of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. A foundation in his name has donated millions of dollars to charities. ROCKVILLE CENTRE RESIDENT RUSS SILLER outside the Stephen’s House of the New York Foundling, a charity named after his brother, a fallen firefighter.
A DISPLAY OF BRAVERY AS STEPHEN SILLER ran through the Battery Tunnel on Sept. 11, 2001. This portrait of him hangs in the Stephen’s House of the New York Foundling, a charity supported by the annual Tunnel to Towers Race. victims, to build houses for quadruple amputees and to help local New York burn centers. Money has also been set aside for children in Rockville Centre, Stephen’s hometown, who have had one or more parents die. These children receive $1,000 each year beginning in the eighth-grade and ending after their high school graduation, in memory of Stephen, who lost both of his parents at age 10 and went to live with
Russ and his wife, Jackie, in Rockville Centre. “He had a journey, not just into the tunnel, but in his life, to accept what happened and live his life,” Russ said. “He was always trying to better himself. I think he, and the 343 [fallen firefighters] knew they weren’t just walking into a regular fire. This is what they were all about.” Comments about this story? AAxelson@liherald. com or (516) 569-4000 ext. 282.
DETAILS ON THE 5K RACE WALK What: Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers 5k Race/Walk When: Sept. 25 at 9:30 a.m. Where: IKEA Parking Lot at 1 Beard Street, Brooklyn Cost: $50 before Sept. 19, $75 after.
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Stories from the heart Volunteers share their personal experiences at WTC Tribute Center By JUDY RATTNER The memories are vivid and emotions are still raw as visitors from all over the world get a firsthand, human connection to history at the World Trade Center Tribute Center. Across the street from the now-bustling World Trade Center site, in a storefront at 120 Liberty Street, the center is a small museum that provides educational programming for visitors. It is also a place where those whose lives were forever changed by the first World Trade Center attack in 1993 and the subsequent events at the same towers, the Pentagon and on United Flight 93, can gather for peer support and healing. Local, national and international guests meet survivors, family members who lost loved ones, lower Manhattan residents and office employees, rescue workers, civilian searchers and
police and firefighters who volunteer as lead or support walking-tour docents, gallery guides or administrative aids at the center. Each of the volunteers is prepared to tell their story and accurately recount the fateful timeline of the day. All of the 446 who have trained, and the 250 currently active, work to convey an understanding of the humanity and community that was both lost and found as a result of the terrorist attacks. A common theme is to “never forget” about all those — from 92 nations — who perished, and the enormous outpouring of compassion and fellowship in response to the hate-inspired terrorism. In the absence of facts, incorrect versions of the events can gain acceptance. The goal of the volunteers is to present what happened accurately and passionately, with the hope of preventing a similar tragedy from ever happening again. Another goal is to get the pub-
lic to focus on the rebuilding and rebirth that is the signature of a strong, resilient — and united — community. The result is an experience that is as moving as it is engaging — by sharing the authentic stories of those most affected, the exhibits and tours convey the courage, loss, heroism and
grief of those involved in the tragedies. The personal experiences put a human face on the overwhelming events that shocked the nation and the world. Established by the Sept. 11th Families’ Association in 2006, the center has a mission: to
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Looking to the future The Herald’s invitation to the WTC Tribute Center came from Theresa Cove, a Rockville Centre 9/11 family member who is active as a support docent at the center. She learned about it from a friend in town whose cousin lost her firefighter husband and became one of the original volunteers. After checking it out, Cove decided to participate in center’s December 2009 volunteer training program. Cove says her involvement (she participates in walking tours about twice a month) helps her honor and memorialize her husband Jim, who was a senior vice president at Aon, as well as the others who perished on Sept. 11. It has been a way for her to work through her own grief and understand the grief of others similarly affected. She Mary Malloy/Herald also believes her work at the THERESA COVE, a 9/11 family member who center helps in the accepvolunteers as a walking tour support docent for tance of the new World Trade the World Trade Center Tribute Center, highCenter and is proof of the resiliency of the human spirit. lighted a rendering of the 9/11 Memorial pool. In addition to her involvereconnect with the World Trade Center site. ment with the center, Cove has become a She makes herself available to anyone who proponent of incorporating material about the might be interested in taking the center’s terrorist attacks and their aftermath into WTC walking tour. school curricula. To learn more about the World Trade With this, the 10th anniversary of the Center Tribute Center and its programs, fateful events of Sept. 11, Cove says she’s visit www.tributewtc.org. seen many more people willing to revisit and
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1 WORLD TRADE CENTER, formerly known as “The Freedom Tower,” will be the second office building to be completed on the site. It follows 7 World Trade Center and precedes the completion of 4 World Trade Center. Two other office buildings are planned.
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Tribute Center offers an experience that is as moving as it is engaging — by sharing the authentic stories of those most affected, the exhibits and tours convey the courage, loss, heroism and grief of those involved in the tragedies. The personal experiences put a human face on the overwhelming events that shocked the nation and the world.
Stories from the heart Continued from previous page educate the public about the impact of September 11 and to inspire visitors to return to their communities with greater empathy to build better understanding among people. More than two million people have been personally welcomed and introduced to the center’s unique collection of stories and artifacts that reveal diverse, personal perspectives. And so it was on a beautiful Thursday — a month to the day before the dedication of the National 9/11 Memorial on the 10th anniversary of the 2001 attacks — that three editors from the Herald visited the Tribute Center and took the tour of the perimeter of the World Trade Center site. The first stop were the five galleries in the museum, where guests view and listen to powerful exhibits that document the community before, during and after the attacks. Recordings, personal effects and artifacts from the building brought the day to life. Photos of the many who were
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SUPPORT-DOCENT THERESA COVE walked through a series of timeline exhibits at the World Trade Center Tribute Center’s Gallery Two.
missing cover each of the walls in the last of the galleries. Walking guides Desiree B. (last names are not used), an Aon survivor, and Donna K., who had been a resident of Battery Park City, next led a group of about 25 visitors through a five-stop tour around the busy construction site. The walk took slightly over an hour. Visitors watched as a virtual army of workers readied the memorial pools — on the footprints of the fallen towers — that will open this month. The guides’ tales of survival and loss held the rapt attention of the audience, bringing several of the visitors to tears. With the opening of the National 9/11 Memorial Museum set for a year from now, at least one WTC Tribute Center volunteer anticipates that the center will complement the museum, continuing to provide its live, person-to-person history. The Sept. 11 Families’ Association pledges to contin-
ue to assist victims of terrorism with educational programs and peer support. Of the Tribute Center, the volunteer said she hopes it will also continue to educate and inform the public, while offering a place for survivors, family and rescuers who have yet to connect.
DESIREE B., a docent, described the angle at which the first hijacked plane entered the north tower.
TRIBUTE CENTER visitors experienced the horrors of the attacks in interactive exhibits in Gallery Two.
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DOCENTS share their personal accounts during the walking tours. At this stop on Desiree’s tour, visitors learned about the physical destruction of a bridge that connected the north tower with the World Financial Center.
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CONSTRUCTION OF ONE WORLD TRADE CENTER is now well under way. The superstructure, which will replace the twin towers, is scheduled for completion in 2013.
Photos by Scott Brinton/Herald
Rebuilding ground zero Halfway complete, One World Trade Center already soars into the sky By SCOTT BRINTON On Aug. 5, I traveled to ground zero in Lower Manhattan to photograph the epicenter of the worst terrorist attacks on American soil, nearly 10 years later. As I scaled the subway steps leading to Vesey Street, on the north side of what had been the World Trade Center before September 11, 2001, I was uncertain what to expect when I reached the top of the staircase. The last time that I visited ground zero, in August 2006, I felt forlorn. It was a hauntingly empty place. What would I find this time? Thank goodness, I found people –– hundreds, even thousands of people, hurrying in all directions, many stopping to photograph One World Trade Center, the glass-and-steel architectural marvel that is now a little more than halfway complete and will replace the Twin Towers. When finished in 2013, this structure, this magnificent structure, will soar 1,776 feet into the air –– with 71 office floors, a grand public lobby that will feature 50-foot ceilings, an observation deck more than 1,200 feet above the ground, an array of trendy shops and 3 million square feet of office space. Renowned architect David Childs, of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, LLP, designed the building, which evokes the grand art-deco style of architecture employed at the Chrysler Building and Empire State Building in the 1930s. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is
developing this super-structure at a cost of $3 billion. Work began in 2008. Construction of One World Trade Center has been a challenge from the beginning. Here’s an excerpt from the Port Authority’s 2008 fourth quarter report on the project: “Construction of the foundation for One World Trade Center, the Freedom Tower was a significant engineering and construction feat and represented one of the most challenging portions of construction … because it was constructed adjacent to and around an operating railroad –– the Path. The tower’s foundations had to be built among a maze of track switches and [electrified] third rail while maintaining Path service for commuters.” To date, nearly every construction milestone set by the Port Authority has been met. In his 2010 fourth quarter report, Christopher Ward, the Port Authority’s executive director, wrote, “2010 completed a year of remarkable progress at the World Trade Center site. Based on the accelerated pace of WTC Memorial construction, we are ever closer to successfully delivering on our commitment to open the memorial by the 10th anniversary of the attacks. At the same time, we surpassed our goal of reaching the 50th floor of One World Trade Center by year’s end. One World Trade Center now stands as the most visible indication of the gathering momentum at the WTC site (currently at the 60th floor).”
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CONSTRUCTION WORKERS on the job off Vesey Street, just outside One World Trade Center.
A GIANT AMERICAN FLAG hung from a crane at the construction site.
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Continued from previous page Five months later, on May 25 this year, publishing giant Condé Nast signed a 25-year lease for 1 million square feet of space at One World Trade Center, becoming its anchor tenant. The space will house Condé Nast’s global headquarters, with 27 websites and 18 magazines, including Architectural Digest, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Vogue. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said, “Today’s significant lease agreement with Condé Nast paves the way for the revitalization of Lower Manhattan and sends the clear message that New York is open for business once again.” One World Trade Center will be the tallest building in the United States. It, though, will be more than a skyscraper. It will be a symbol of all that our country is capable of; it will be our phoenix, risen from the ashes. On my recent trip to ground zero, I felt such joy seeing this new building coming to life –– and so many people making pilgrimages to this hallowed ground to witness history being made. I saw parents with small children, walking hand in hand, smiling; businessmen and women dressed in pressed suits, on their way to and from meetings; tour groups speaking in a multitude of languages, laughing at their guides’ corny jokes; and construction workers –– so many constructions workers –– sweaty, dirty, busy. Just to the east of the site, people meandered through the shaded graveyard of St. Paul’s Chapel, which opened in 1766, hosted President George Washington on his inauguration day in 1789, and miraculously survived the collapse of both the north and south towers. To the west, by the Hudson River, dozens of people dined at chic outdoor cafés, with the Statue of Liberty shining in the distance.
Ground zero is no longer a lonely place. It is alive, buzzing with human activity once again. Ten years ago, I could not have imagined the site so full of life. I was busy reporting on the funerals of South Shore victims of the terrorist attacks. In all, I covered 13 funerals in three months. It was a terrible, terrifying time for our nation. When I went to ground zero to photograph the site in 2006, to mark the fifth anniversary of the attacks, I found a handful of people peering through a chain-link fence into the empty hole that had once been the World Trade Center. I was allowed onto the site to photograph what had become known as the “bathtub.” It seemed such an impossible task to rebuild, particularly with all of the political infighting that marred the planning process for the “Freedom Tower,” which is now known officially as One World Trade Center. (The name was changed in 2009 because, then Port Authority chairman Anthony Coscia said, One World Trade Center was “easiest for people to identify with.”) Despite its troubled start, the building is now clearly getting done. We are Americans, and it is in our nature to debate, to argue. In the end, though, we are doers. We build and, when necessary, rebuild. No building, of course, can bring back the 2,977 victims of the terrorist attacks. It cannot soothe the psychic wounds of their families and friends. But it does show the world that America is back. I eagerly await the day when my wife and I can bring our children to One World Trade Center’s observation deck and look out onto the city that we love, toward a new tomorrow. For more, check out wtcprogress.org. Comments? SBrinton@liherald.com or (516) 569-4000 ext. 203.
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ONE WORLD TRADE CENTER, as seen from the Hudson River, now rises above surrounding buildings, including the World Financial Center, at front.
ABOVE, A VIEW OF THE SITE FROM CHURCH STREET, in front
HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE made their way up and down Vesey Street, outside of the construction site.
of St. Paul’s Chapel; at left, people stopped to check out construction progress.
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WTC steel to form local memorials By JACKIE NASH Several Nassau County communities recently welcomed World Trade Center artifacts into their communities, to be made into monuments and other memorials in tribute to those who were lost on September 11, 2001, including Valley Stream, Merrick and East Rockaway. On Aug. 23, Franklin Square joined in that honor, when more than 7,000 pounds of WTC steel were brought into the community. Nearly 300 residents watched as the steel arrived, including the families of Thomas Hetzel and Michael V. Kiefer, both Franklin Square residents and New York City firefighters who were killed that awful day. Six other Franklin Square residents who were not firefighters also lost their lives that day. The two pieces of steel — one about 6 feet tall, weighing 2,532 pounds and the other about 15 feet tall, twisted and weighing 4,753 pounds — were picked up at the John F. Kennedy International Airport. An American flag was draped over the steel, and a wreath of red, white and blue ribbons and flowers was mounted to the front of the truck carrying the steel. From the Southern State Parkway, the procession was led by the chiefs of the Franklin Square & Munson Fire Department and followed by the Nassau County and New York City fire departments; more than 100 motorcycles from the New York City Fire Riders, Nassau County Fire Riders and American Legion Riders motorcycle clubs; the FDNY’s Ladder Company 13, the company that Tom Hetzel belonged to; the Franklin Square & Munson F.D.; and police officers from New York City and Nassau County. They traveled north on Franklin Avenue to Hempstead Turnpike, and then east on the turnpike to the Franklin Square & Munson F.D. firehouse, located at 841 Liberty Place in Franklin Square. When the procession entered Franklin Square, hundred of residents were waiting, many silent with their hands over the hearts. Many more were waiving little American flags that had been handed out to spectators by several stores along Hempstead Turnpike. “It was a moment of awe,” said Philip Malloy,
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NEARLY 300 RESIDENTS watched as the Franklin Square & Munson Fire Department led a procession through Franklin Square, including a truck carrying two large pieces of steel from the World Trade Center. a 30-year member of the Franklin Square & Munson F.D. and retired New York City police officer. “I had tears in my eyes.” Malloy said that the steel will be part of a monument, which will be constructed at the firehouse in Franklin Square, and dedicated to all Franklin Square residents who lost loved ones on 9/11. He added that several names and dates were etched on the 15-foot piece of steel by people who were working at ground zero in the weeks following 9/11, including cops and firefighters, and that those markings will be kept intact. Currently, the two WTC pieces are on display in front of the firehouse. Throughout the day on Aug. 23, local residents took photos of the steel. Comments about this story? JNash@liherald.com or (516) 569-4000 ext. 214.
FAMILY MEMBERS OF THOMAS HETZEL, a city firefighter who was killed on September 11, received a flag in his honor.
Remembering a local hero, a decade later By JACKIE NASH Thomas J. Hetzel was 33-years-old when he was killed during the September 11 terrorist attacks. Hetzel worked for the Fire Department of New York’s Ladder 13, located at 158 E. 85th St. in Manhattan. He also volunteered for 15 years with the Franklin Square & Munson Fire Department, and was named chief of that
THOMAS HETZEL, who volunteered with the Franklin Square & Munson Fire Department, was killed on Sept. 11, 2001 when he was 33 years old. Courtesy Franklin Square & Munson F.D.
department. Nine men from Ladder Company 13 and Engine Co. 22 — who shared the fire house — were killed while working to rescue individuals at the World Trade Center. Hetzel, who served as a city firefighter for more than five years, is believed to have been rescuing victims at the World Trade Center’s Tower Two when it collapsed. Hetzel was last seen in the stairwell of the north tower. His remains were recovered several weeks later. A Garden City South native, Hetzel graduated from the H. Frank Carey High School in Franklin Square and studied liberal arts at Nassau Community College. Hetzel was survived by his wife, Diana, and
daughter, Amanda, now 13 years old. Following Hetzel’s death, the Thomas Hetzel Memorial Scholarship was established for a Hofstra University student studying in Germany — Hetzel’s heritage. The scholarship was recently awarded to an H. Frank Carey student, Ronald Eith. The Ladder 13/Engine Co. 22 firehouse has become a memorial where people stop and reflect on those who died in the attacks. Taxdeductible donations can be sent to: Eng 22/Lad 13 Family Fund, Engine Co. 22/Ladder Co. 13, 159 E. 85th St. New York, NY 10028. Comments about this s tory? JNash@liherald.com or (516) 569-4000 ext. 214.
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What are your thoughts about that day, and how are you moving forward? Emma Leale Kalny: Disbelief that it is 10 years already. Explaining to my children who were in 1st & 4th grade about the day & picking at their memories. Explaining to them that you never let anyone or thing get you down & good always prevails over evil- believe!
— Malverne Trisha Talya Magarie: can’t believe its been 10 years already. I was just in high school when it happened but it feels like yesterday. This is a day that i will never forget, just like my mom said about JFKs assassination. Funny thing, we were in the same grade when both of these tragedies happened.
— West Hempstead Tara Cronin Cottage: I am very upset that the first responders are not invited to the 10th anniversary. They weren’t invited on that day either, but they showed up. They saved countless lives
and lost so many of their own. I feel that they should just show up at the anniversary. Let bloomberg stay home.
hour of the attacks and everyone dejectedly heading home. Haunting memories...
— Valley Stream
— Malverne Mike Cartolano: We are as a people fundamentally different than we were before 9-11. Less complacent, maybe even more anxious, but also more compassionate and stronger than ever.
Robert Engelhard: I remember having my daughters 5yr old soccer team on the field at Oceanside, seeing the smoke waiting for the parents who were stuck to get home. Image of kids and smoke burnt in...
— Oceanside
— West Hempstead Faith E. Leibow: My wish is that all the togetherness, compassion, camaraderie and unity that existed in Americans hearts right after 9/11 could be once again instilled, without another occurrence. I worked down there with EMS, saw horrific things, but mostly, saw goodness, kindness and felt a unity like nothing I could have ever imagined. Everyone was touched by this, and I believe this is a good forum to recognize the huge loss, of friends, coworkers, past classmates and innocence.
— West Hempstead Nancy Scala Rocklage: I remember standing in the parking lot of my building at 132nd St in Jamaica, Queens that day and being able to see the smoke from the burning towers because it was such a clear day. I remember JFK Airport (where I worked) closing within an
Itssa Ayala: I have my ten year old son to remind me, I was 8 months pregnant at that time.
— Long Beach
Some of our members were in elementary school to graduate school. Others were young professionals. Some knew people who were killed and others knew people with family or friends who were killed. All were in shock to see such a terrible event. We will never forget and never let it be minimized, today, or any time in the future!
— Woodmere Republican Club Young Republicans
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Rockville Centre 516-62Mercy
9-11-01
We will always
remember We will never
forget
we will always
endure!
15 Taft Avenue Inwood 516-371-5863
Lawrence (516) 569-0800
HERALD COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS' 9/11 10TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL SECTION — September 8, 2011
Lawrence 516-239-1140
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CITIZENS FOR ANTHONY J. SANTINO COUNCILMAN Town of Hempstead 1 Washington Street 516-489-5000
BRIAN CURRAN Oceanside 516-766-2717
FUNERAL HOME Oceanside 516-766-0425
STATE ASSEMBLYMAN 14th District Lynbrook 516-561-8216
DENISE FORD Island Park 516-431-2900
Rockville Centre 516-766-1901
NASSAU COUNTY LEGISLATOR
Oceanside 516-766-4424
Rockville Centre 516-62Mercy
15 Taft Avenue Inwood 516-371-5863
SENATOR One Healthy Way Oceanside 1-877-SOUTH-NASSAU www.southnassau.ORG
DEAN G. SKELOS skelos.nysenate.gov
9-11-01
We will always
remember We will never
forget
we will always
endure!
HERALD COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS' 9/11 10TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL SECTION — September 8, 2011
We Will Always Remember
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We Will Always Remember Valley Stream 516-825-3060
Franklin Square 516-775-2100
Valley Stream 516-825-1741
BRIAN CURRAN STATE ASSEMBLYMAN Valley Stream 516-569-6600
14th District Lynbrook 516-561-8216
Franklin Square 516-292-0990
East Rockaway 516-593-2521
SENATOR One Healthy Way Oceanside 1-877-SOUTH-NASSAU southnassau.ORG
DEAN G. SKELOS skelos.nysenate.gov
Rockville Centre 516-62Mercy
9-11-01
We will always
remember We will never
forget
we will always
endure!
15 Taft Avenue Inwood 516-371-5863
VALLEY STREAM HERALD — September 8, 2011
THE STANYA FAMILY