Doug Kerr
Well-known member
There is much discussion as to how to best recognize, on its upcoming tenth anniversary, the tragic terrorist attack on the United States of September 11, 2001.
Carla and I, on that 10th anniversary, will fly by commercial airliner (Southwest Airlines) from Las Vegas, Nevada, to Dallas, Texas, our return from Carla's 55th high school reunion. ("Whaddya mean, which high school in Las Vegas? There was only one then.")
There were many heroes of that event. My favorite is our friend, John Lynch, a master ironworker by trade, employed at the time by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. His actual full-time assignment then, still as an Authority employee, was as president of the union representing the iron workers and such employed by the Port Authority, an arrangement provided for in the union's contract with the Authority.
Upon learning of the disaster, John called the shop and had a set of tanks and torches of his favorite type sent to the site for him to use, and he forthwith suited up and joined the ranks of his colleagues desperately trying to penetrate the rubble to find survivors - or bodies.
In this photo, taken by a Port Authority official photographer, we see John at this task, which he pursued tirelessly for I don't recall how many days.
Unknown photographer/Port Authority of New York and New Jersey: John Lynch, master ironworker
I'm proud to know you, John.
Best regards,
Doug
Carla and I, on that 10th anniversary, will fly by commercial airliner (Southwest Airlines) from Las Vegas, Nevada, to Dallas, Texas, our return from Carla's 55th high school reunion. ("Whaddya mean, which high school in Las Vegas? There was only one then.")
There were many heroes of that event. My favorite is our friend, John Lynch, a master ironworker by trade, employed at the time by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. His actual full-time assignment then, still as an Authority employee, was as president of the union representing the iron workers and such employed by the Port Authority, an arrangement provided for in the union's contract with the Authority.
Upon learning of the disaster, John called the shop and had a set of tanks and torches of his favorite type sent to the site for him to use, and he forthwith suited up and joined the ranks of his colleagues desperately trying to penetrate the rubble to find survivors - or bodies.
In this photo, taken by a Port Authority official photographer, we see John at this task, which he pursued tirelessly for I don't recall how many days.
Unknown photographer/Port Authority of New York and New Jersey: John Lynch, master ironworker
I'm proud to know you, John.
Best regards,
Doug