{"id":223506,"date":"2025-09-13T12:10:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T12:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/223506\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T12:10:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T12:10:40","slug":"hundreds-remember-9-11-at-the-firemans-memorial-on-the-upper-west-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/223506\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds Remember 9\/11 at the Fireman&#8217;s Memorial on the Upper West Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_0888-1.jpeg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-96853 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_0888-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"468\"  \/><\/a>Photos by Rosemary McGinn.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Rosemary McGinn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We take 9\/11 personally around here, near the Fireman\u2019s Memorial on upper Riverside Drive, at the foot of West 100th Street. (Yes, it\u2019s fireMAN, the sign says so.) Every year on September 11, neighborhood streets and subways are flooded with firefighters from all over. We can hear the bagpipes from our living room windows.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96849 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_0896.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"238\"  \/>The ceremony is set at the imposing, solemn memorial with hundreds of U.S. flags arrayed around it \u2013 honoring those 343 lost that day, and the more than 350 who have died since from 9\/11-related illnesses. A special unit of volunteers lines up in long ranks before filling the space before the memorial.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96850 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_0927.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"473\"  \/>As the morning wears on, a moment of silence is observed at each of the times a plane flew into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and that field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. There is no speechifying. Rather, the names of all FDNY members lost to 9\/11 are read, along with their job titles and posts\u2026. not all the victims, just the firefighters and their comrades such as EMS personnel. The traditional bell-ringing follows each.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96851 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1040.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\"  \/>The memorial itself is one of New York\u2019s most dramatic and moving, with a large brass relief showing firefighters rushing to a fire with a horse-drawn carriage. In fact, there\u2019s a special plaque dedicated by the ASPCA to honor the many horses who gave their lives trying to help with firefighting. There\u2019s also a beautiful \u201cold man winter\u201d fountain, which was finally just turned on for the season.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96852 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_0887.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"  \/>Subscribe to West Side Rag\u2019s FREE email newsletter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/westsiderag.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=5772ebf2a0a585445f1188785&amp;id=f50755d5f9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. And you can Support the Rag\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westsiderag.com\/support-west-side-rag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photos by Rosemary McGinn. 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