9/11/01: In Memory of Earl Richard Shanahan
Earl Richard Shanahan was a senior accountant for the firm of Marsh & McLennan in the World Trade Center. He was fifty years old and from the sketchy information available, a lifelong resident of the New York City area. The few comments on him left at other sites describe a man who didn't have clients, only friends. One commenter likened him to Abe Lincoln without the beard. Others mention an unusual sense of humor in a man well liked by all, a man remembered dearly by those who worked for him.
It's not mentioned what his politics were, what his religion was, his position on anything. It doesn't matter. He was another American, just working his job and hoping to go home.
Then an airplane hijacked by Islamic pigs slammed into the World Trade Center.
God rest his soul. God comfort his loved ones. God forbid we should lose memory of him and the other 2995 victims of that day.
May his soul and the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
3 comments:
The men and women who became the first casualties of the war with America will, they must never be forgotten.
Mr. Shanahan was "hoping to go home", but everyone's home changed that awful day. Thank you Subvet for this.
Sub Vet,great posting.The terror that every one on those planes and in the towers,the plane that crashed in Shanksville, and at the Pentagon must have been horrible.I would imangine it was the same terrow that others felt on 7 December1941.
TLM, it was an honor to be able to post this.
Rev. Gregori, I don't find it despicable that you feel that way. I think all of us "of a certain age" remember better times and doubt we'll see them again.
Mike, yeah 9/11 was as much a call to action as Dec. 7. Let's hope we're not judged too harshly by history for the tepid response.
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