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Ann Van Hine
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Pieces Falling
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Twenty years
May 30, 2022 will mark twenty years since the recovery mission after the September 11, 2001 attacks ended - eight months and nineteen days after the towers fell. The National September 11th Museum and Memorial will host a ceremony to commemorate and honor the efforts of all who worked and volunteered during those 261 days. I would personally like to say thank you to the FDNY, NYPD, PAPD, steel workers, FBI, sanitation workers and thousands of volunteers. Thank you. Well done.
Book Excerpt
Pieces Falling
The Last Column in Foundation Hall was the final thing on my list of things to see.
I had saved it to the end for a reason.
On May 28, 2002, during a ceremony to close the site, the Last Column had been carried out in similar fashion to the way bodies had been carried out: up the ramp and covered with an American flag. The column of steel bore, in spray paint, the letters and numbers FDNY 343, NYPD 23, PAPD 37.
The letters SQ41 had also been painted on the column.
What I didn’t know until 2014 was that SQ41 had been the first thing painted on that column. Squad 41 firefighters had sprayed SQ41 on the steel column as it stood in the pile of debris to mark the area they found Bruce’s body.
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