Missing Wall; A Place to Remember the 9/11 Victims

These photos are the flyers on the Missing Persons Wall at St Vincent's Hospital in late September 2001. This diary is a place to remember the victims simply because I promised to never forget them.

Like St. Vincent’s Itself, Missing Wall Means Much

The 9/11 fliers are now preserved in plastic and arranged alphabetically, from Terence E. Adderley Jr. to Ken Zelman, in four loose-leaf binders. Copies were made for future display at a center for 9/11 families that is to be part of the memorial and museum being built at ground zero.

The binders are in storage, emerging rarely save for one day a year. “We have a memorial Mass every Sept. 11 in the chapel, and we bring the books there,” Sister Kevin said. “We let people look through them, and then we take them back” — out of sight but never out of mind.

Note: The flyers have been photoshopped to hide phone numbers and email addresses.

Inside the Polo Ralph Loren store on Broadway, Sept 2001.

Photo above taken from the 14th floor of the Transportation Building, Sept 28, 2001.