Fire fighter Sean Cummins from Dublin, who works out of Squad One in Brooklyn, New York, narrowly escaped death in the Twin Towers disaster on September 11. He was scheduled to work that day, and had traded time off with a colleague because he wanted to drop his mother, Marie, to the airport. She was returning to Ireland after visiting her son, his wife, Maureen, and their … [Read more...] about Firefighters Honored
by Dublin Counterparts
9/11
Firefighters Honored
Dublin Woman Returns Home
to Heal After Sept. 11
In December, Dublin woman Angela O'Reilly, 34, who lost her husband, in the World Trade Center attack moved back to Ireland from her previous home in Farmingdale, Long Island. Her husband of twelve years, Police Officer Vincent Danz, driving his Emergency Service Police Truck from the Bronx, reached the World Trade Center soon after the planes hit on September 11 and was last … [Read more...] about Dublin Woman Returns Home
to Heal After Sept. 11
Another Tragedy for Rockaway
When American Airlines Flight 587 crashed in Rockaway Beach, Queens, it hit a tight-knit community already reeling from numerous losses suffered in the World Trade Center tragedy. After taking off only two minutes earlier from Kennedy Airport, located across Jamaica Bay, flight 587 broke apart and nose-dived directly into a heavily populated area of Rockaway known as Belle … [Read more...] about Another Tragedy for Rockaway
The Last Word
Why it's hard to be an American in Ireland. Dublin, September 11: Heading home from work, shocked by what I'd seen in the previous few hours, I wondered if people on the train felt the same as I did. Were they horrified? Were they feeling sick? Were they in shock? A group of schoolboys, loud with nervous excitement, talked about what they'd seen. But, for the most part, there … [Read more...] about The Last Word
Those Whom We Lost
They were busboys and bankers, grandmothers and newlyweds, firefighters, soldiers, tourists and priests. More than 2,500 of them died at their desks, or running down stairs, or clearing the way for others. Maybe a couple of dozen of them, on a plane over Pennsylvania, died swinging their fists. But on that cruel morning of September 11th, the morning of the most devastating … [Read more...] about Those Whom We Lost