Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

While visiting New York in the summer of 2001, I visited the 6th precinct. I met you at that time when you took the time out of your busy schedule to give me tour of the precinct and the Bomb squad.

You gave me a tie pin and who would have known the significance that it would now have for me. I still wear it as a sign of respect and rememberance.

I once again travelled to the 6th precinct after 911 to pay my respects and attend memorials.

Rest in peace

Constable John Parkinson
Peel Regional Police Canada

Claude's death was unnecessary and heroic. America will grieve, but this hero's death will not go unavenged. Thank you Claude.

Although Danny worked upstairs in the Bomb Squad we all considered ourselves as NYPD. Danny always had a warm hello to anybody he came across even though he didn't know your name. That just tells you of the character of a TRUE HERO. He now rests with the angels and we pray he looks down on us and directs us on our continued journeys as Police Officers. Thank you Danny for being a gentleman but most of all exemplifing what it is to be part of the NYPD. Rest in Peace

Police Officers of the 6TH PCT
NYPD

When the towers collapsed I immediately thought about Claude. Hoping that he was somewhere else in the town but not present on the spot. But, unfortunatly.....
I will always keep in mind his smile, his friendship and his sense of humour.
I had the pleasure to work together with him in 1997 as peacekeepers in Bosnia. He was a really good friend and I still have a "bomb squad" jacket he gave me before my departure. I will keep it as a memory from a hero who gave his life to protect and save people. God bless his family.

Staff Sergeant PANIZ Lydie
French Gendarmerie

Claude RICHARD was a nice friend and very professionnal Police Officer. I appreciated him in former Yugoslavia, we worked together in R.S., at UNIPTF Trebinje Station.
I won't never forget guy like him and pray with his family and friends.
Thierry, Bora Bora Gendarmerie Station, French Polynesia.

Gendarme THEVENET Thierry
French National Gendarmerie

Your death will be avenged and your heroism, bravery and sacrifice will never be forgotten!

My Prayers are with all the friends and family of all the officers who lost their lives on September 11, 2001.
I lost my brother tragically, Det. David Taylor, Greensboro PD, On August 7, 2001. I was in NY for my fiancee's Mother's funeral the first of Sept. I was stranded there for 3 weeks due to this atrocity. As I watched the events on TV, I cried for all those who lost their lives. But was especially emotional about the Police Officers and the Firefighters and their families, as I had just recently suffered a tragic loss myself. As I walked through the streets in the days following the attack, I cried with pride as I saw the officers on duty on all the corners in the city. I knew how hard it was for them, knowing they had lost their friends. On the Sat. following the attack I was at St. Patrick's for mass. The last 2 people to go up and take communion were 2 NYPD officers, again I cried. I hope all of you are getting the support that my family and I got when we needed it, from the Deparment. I know the comforting words and even the funny stories the officers tell us about my brother helps. I know that our loved ones who are gone from here, had a higher calling and are happy and at peace in Heaven. Hopefully we can all feel that same peace one day! God bless All of you! And God bless America!
Tracy Taylor
Thomasville, NC
Sister of Greensboro Det.David L Taylor
EOW 8/7/01

TRACY TAYLOR

As I watched the towers come down on September 11th from my home, I knew that many of my brother New York City Police officers had lost there lives. I knew many of them were in the buildings. I knew this because I knew something that the public found out of the 11th, and that is the Men and Woman of the NYPD are heroes, nothing less. Everyday they put their lives on the line to protect the people of New York City.
No member of the NYPD could sit back while people needed help, so these brave 23 NYPD officers along with their 47 brother officers from the PAPD, FBI, Court Administration, Secret Service teamed up with the brave men of the FDNY and in saving over 25,000 of there fellow New Yorkers gave their own lives.
These men and Women are truly heroes and not a day goes by now when I don’t think of them as I patrol the streets of New York City.
These men and woman make me proud to be a Police Officer.
Their actions exemplify everything that is good about being a Police Officer.

God Bless them their families and god bless the NYPD.

A Brother NYPD Officer

Blessed are the peacemakers,For they shall be called sons of God." Matthew 5:9

Anonymous

God I don't know what to say. I intend to post this message for each and everyone of you heroes so Officer, Detective, Agent, Whatever,... I thank you. You swore to serve and to protect. Well your days of protecting us are over. But you will forever be in service. Your eternal service... the inspiration you and your fellow bothers and sisters have re-enforced in my heart, will live so long as I do. Though I will not always carry your name in the front of my mind, not in my duties as a soldier or as the police officer I plan to become when I get home, I will still always carry with me the knowledge of your sacrifice... of your heroism, of your selflessness... I will carry a samll piece of you everywhere I go. Be it with an M-16 in my hands in a strange land, or a badge on my chest in my own back yard... long after the flags come down and the nation carries on... until the day I die... you will continue to serve... as my inspiration. God bless you. God bless your family. God bless your agency. God bless FDNY. God bless all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, coast guardsmen, and marines. God bless New York City. GOD BLESS AMERICA. Thank you my brothers and sisters. I love you.