![]() Collection 9/11 Memorial & Museum, Gift of Lt. And then, when I finally did get out, there were shoes all over the place." Lim with his K-9, a yellow Labrador named Sirius, before the attacks. They hadn't changed yet because it was still early. "All these women were coming down, carrying their shoes," he recalled. 11, 2001, when the former police officer was running up the stairs of the World Trade Center's north tower as people blew past him, trying to escape. It’s preserved with the other artefacts, common but uncommon, in silent witness to history."I saw this woman walk by carrying her shoes and all of a sudden I started getting chills and remembering those moments," Lim, 63, told TODAY of a recent experience in Manhattan that took him right back to Sept. In Joe Hunter’s memory, his family has donated his helmet to the museum: “It belongs there,” his sister says. But some common items’ poignance is in the details: The unfinished knitting, still on the needles, was the hobby of an executive at Cantor Fitzgerald-a company that lost 658 employees in the north tower. Many are utterly common: a food container lid, perhaps from a lunch packed on what started like any other Tuesday. Artefacts are as small as a sapphire-and-diamond ring and as massive as a half-crushed fire engine. Other than one section of fuselage and two crumpled engine parts, most of what remained was in small pieces.Īt the 9/11 Memorial & Museum in New York, more than 70,000 objects help tell the stories of victims, responders, and survivors. Artefacts in each place reflect the particulars of each tragedy: When United Flight 93 crew and passengers tried to retake the plane, hijackers flew it into the ground near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, at more than 560 miles an hour. In the two decades since 9/11, memorials have been built at the crash sites in New York City, at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and in a field in Pennsylvania. But the family is grateful it was found because “it’s the only thing we have of him that was down there, that was with him.” ![]() “Of course, it’s mangled,” says Hunter’s sister, Teresa Hunter Labo. In February 2002, searchers at ground zero recovered a Squad 288 helmet bearing Hunter’s badge number. He was one of 2,977 people killed on 9/11 when al Qaeda hijackers used passenger jets as weapons in the deadliest ever terrorist attack. (Five things to know about new documentary 9/11: One Day in America.)Įighteen days shy of his 32nd birthday, Firefighter Joseph Gerard Hunter of FDNY Squad 288 died helping evacuate the World Trade Centre’s south tower. When his mother, Bridget, worried, he’d tell her, “If anything ever happens, just know I loved the job.” He started as a volunteer fireman, graduated from the New York City Fire Department academy, took rescue training for terrorist attacks and building collapses. At 11, he’d run fire rescue drills with a ladder and a garden hose, and if his pals didn’t take it seriously, he sent them home: “OK, you-out!” At age four, he’d pedal his Big Wheel to the corner as the red trucks passed. ![]() Joe Hunter’s dreams rode on fire engines. The forces that Joe Hunter and hundreds of other people summoned on September 11, 2001. Endurance in the face of the unspeakable. What forces can sanctify an object, giving it meaning beyond itself? Selflessness.
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