We’re approaching again another sad anniversary of September 11, 2001, an event which I lived through with some friends and various parishioners, including a young parishioner, Peter Klein, a 35 year old consultant with Marsh Mclennon who was married just one year earlier. And later on I learned of another victim, an ex-Youth Group member Matthew Grzymalski aged 34 from my former parish of Holy Spirit in New Hyde Park, NY, who worked as a bond broker with Cantor Fitzgerald. During one of my visits to Ground Zero after the unspeakable tragedy that left 3000 victims, I saw some tarpaulins on a fence with several messages in different languages. I found a little space and I wrote a message in Maltese, as you can see on the right side of this tarp. People left teddy bears and other soft toys, simple photos of a missing person, flowers and information with phone-numbers and addresses if a person is found alive. The message I left is ‘Il-Bambin jiftakar fikom, u l-Maltin jitolbu għalikom.’ Which means ‘God will take care of you, and the Maltese will pray for you.’.......to be continued tomorrow.......
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