9-11 – Ruth E. Hendricks

9/11 tribute W10th Firehouse

Photographed and shared by my sister Mary

September 15, 2026 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: 9-11, Fireshouse, flowers, Greenwich Village, New York City, photography, postaday, respect, tribute, west 10th 2 Comments

Twenty five years ago I’d driven 548 miles from Pittsburgh to Rockford, Illinois on September 10th. My sister flew home to New York City from Chicago that same day. We couldn’t plan an overlap although I’d asked if she could wait and fly back the 11th. So I was asleep in my father’s room at the Wesley Willows Assisted Living as he was in the hospital with surgery from a broken foot. My cousin Christopher called on my dad’s phone. The old desk phone kind. Time is Central, an hour earlier than NY. He informed me that the World Trade Center had been attacked. It was only when I got to the hospital in my father’s room and the televisions were on everywhere. It took time to comprehend the magnitude of destruction and loss of human life.

My sister Mary photographed this 9/11 Cross a Symbol of Hope. It was a blog post in September 2020.

It’s “located near St. Paul’s Chapel of Trinity Church near the 9/11 memorial. This statute represents the wreckage of the twin towers forming a cross from the aftermath of 9/11. The original cross was moved in the 9/11 Museum. This cross was sculpted by Jon Krawczyk. Cardinal Egan picked him to sculpt the new cross.”

There’s a 35 page metal. book at the base with all the victims’ names inscribed

2011 blog post of FDNY Fire Engine in the Fire House across the street

**My sister shared this 2024view from her West Village apartment window tonight 9/11. The moon and the memorial tribute beams of light. You’d have to be in NJ to see both streams.**

*A white rose is placed on the name of a victim on their birthday*

September 10, 2026 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: 9-11, family, memories, photography, postaday, tribute, World Trade Towers 12 Comments

9/11/2025 Evening Guest Blog

From my sister in New York City, sent 7:53 Thursday evening.

September 11, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: 9-11, 9/11/2025, city scene, family, guest blog, New York City, photography, postaday, World Trade Center memorial light 1 Comment

9/11

September 10, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: 9-11, memorial, NYC, photography 3 Comments

9/11/2024 New York City Night Sky

My sister shared this view from her West Village apartment window tonight 9/11. The moon and the memorial tribute beams of light. You’d have to be in NJ to see both streams.

September 11, 2024 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: 9-11, light, memorial, moon, night sky, NYC, photography, postaday, sister, tribute, West Village 5 Comments

Remembering 9/11 and Honoring the Fallen

And in Pittsburgh photographed 9/10/2024

Honoring the Fallen-

In front of Soldiers and Sailors Memorial are 7,053 dog tags hanging between the lamp posts -304 are flags representing individual service members from Pennsylvania.

A one minute video – Like wind chimes, the metal dog tags in the wind

September 10, 2024 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: 9-11, dog tags, Engine 33, firefighters, honor, Ladder 9, memorial, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, service, Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, war on terrorism 3 Comments

A 2011- Reblog FDNY- TEN HOUSE ACROSS THE STREET FROM WORLD TRADE CENTER

There’s a plaque on the face of the engine house with the 9/11 fallen heroes faces and names
**“Dedicated to those who fell and to those who carry on. May we never forget.”**

Originally posted April 2011

“Still Standing”. The Seagrave Truck made in Clintonville, Wisconsin has an amazing story on the Ten House website. On the side of the building is the Bronze 9/11 Memorial Wall. The garage door was open part way.

You see the new One World Trade Center rising high out of the construction site.

There must be a hundred cranes.

Mary said someone from Hawaii must have been there-

a dozen leis dangling from the tripod that held a wreath.

Lots of people from all over the world, taking photos.

It started to rain.

***“Dedicated to those who fell and to those who carry on. May we never forget.”***

Added Sept 10, 2023“…Joseph Petrovics be engaged as sculptor, and, after some hesitation owing to the enormity of the task of bringing together all of the disparate views as to how to best immortalize the heroes of that day, he agreed to take on the task. Petrovics modeled in plasticine the model designed by Joseph A. Oddi, a delineator, who sketched his preliminary vision drawing upon recollections of firefighters meeting in Chief Meyers’s office. Full-scale models were made in plasticene. Negative models were made from the clay and used to make positive casts. They in turn were pressed into a mixture called “French sand” which created a mold in which the bronze could be cast at the Bidi-Makky Art Foundry in Brooklyn. The 7,000-pound bronze was moved in three parts to Manhattan on May 19.”

September 10, 2023September 10, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: 9-11, firetruck, memorial, memorial wall, New York City, NYFD, One World Center, photography, postaday, travel 4 Comments

“….. is called ‘9/11 Cross, A Symbol of Hope’.This statute is located near St. Paul’s Chapel of Trinity Church near the 9/11 memorial. This statute represents the wreckage of the twin towers forming a cross from the aftermath of 9/11. The original cross was moved in the 9/11 Museum. This cross was sculpted by Jon Krawczyk. Cardinal Egan picked him to sculpt the new cross. ”

World Trade Center Memorial Lights as seen from Mary’s apartment

And below is a photo of the 9/11 Memorial I photographed when we visited with the grandkids a few years ago.

September 6, 2020September 10, 2020 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: 9-11, guest blog, Jon Krawczyk, memorial, New York City, night photography, photography, postaday, sculpture, symbol of hope, World Trade Center 8 Comments

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