NYC-WTC_000230685

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

NEW York post, sun day. October 7,2001

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FOR LIFESAVERS Thousands pay tribute to cops & firefighters By LARHY CELONA, JEN WAlf, lAUlA WILLIAMS ond ClfMENTE USI Fourteen white doves rose TWIN TOWERS into a cloudy sky yesterday In tribute to Emergency Service Unit Officer Santos Valentin, one of 14 ofTicers From the elite B. .•Wa FUND NYPD unit lost saving others at the World Trade Center. Where to ipail Some 6,000 white^loved po­ your checks: lice officers — who Sned up as much as eight deep across a wet UdteuidbtoUa'Mi street from St. Anae’s Roman fem And an ba MOI IE Cacholir Church in Brentwood. pa. 00x28989 LI. — gathered to recall (he GeneraJ Post Offta) 40-year-old'^ courage in the ma- i' ments before the collapse. (tew Yom, MT 10087-6999 “It doesn't surprise me at all that he rushed to [he World To donate by telephone: Trade Center with one thing in bittBULSJ ■ mind — to save lives," said Va­ lentin's sister. Denise Santos, an 1-377-9704278 NYPD sergeant brtarwrtlaiHit First Deputy Commissioner 919-497-0837 Joseph Dunne said Santos, a 17-year veteran, was a hero years before he disappeared into (he and rubble. “Great occasions don’t maie A worthy purpose heroes or cowards. They simply The Twin Towerv ¥vnd was reveal themselves to the eyes of established by Mayor Giuliani men," be said. to ensure that support for fami- Meanwhile, some 5,00U police 1jC9 of uniformed workers af­ officers and firefi^lers — in­ fected by the di&aeler is coordi­ cluding Police Commissioner nated. responsive, responsible Bernard Kerik — packed Sc. and accoimtable. Information is LaViTcnce’s Church in Sayville, available at nypost.com, nyc.gov LI-, for an emotional service bunorlog 30-year-ald Police Of­ or libertyunkes.org. ficer Glenn Pettit, a four-year NYPD veteran who also served as a valunieer firefighter in. West Sayville. Today’s “Il was a well-deserved send- off for a great Cop and for on (ven grcaier person,’ said Pi- A MOTHER'S ANQUISH: Gloria Valantin, mother ol Santos Valentin, holds the flag from the police funerals irolmen'j Benevolem Assncii- ofticot’B luneral as her daughter, NYPD Sgt. Oeniso Valantin. comtorls tiar. Nv Past JimlAicorr Today's services (or tion beard member Waller______________________________ ________________________ fallen iiade-oenler heroes; FDNY Flrc#5ghrcr MJ- ZiTrnSSSuSSSi Ihr-SS Tragic list of honored dead grows again I In Memoriam chael Cawley, Ladder 136. At IlM p.m., Chujch of own, including Faustino Apostol These names were added yesterday to the medical examiaer's list Mary's Nativity, 46-02 Par­ Jr- cf Pacraiion 2, a 27-year vet- 0/ confirmed tiade-cemer dead: sons B]vdn Flushing, eran of the depanifttfii. who Debbie Attias-Bellows, 30; John M. Grazioso. 31; Lisa King-John- Queens. was remembered at Holy Child son, 34; Edmund McNally. 40; Craig Moniano, 39; Jon A. Perconfi, PDNY Firefighter Totui- Romaii Catholic Church on J2! Maihew Blake Wallens. 31. than Hohmann, Hazmat States Island as a loving family —— Co. 1. At 4 p.m-, Bethel man who relished life. Inends crammed into St. Fanning, battalion chief in Evangelical Free Church, Hb son, Christopher Apostol, Charles Church io remember charge of Hazmat Operations. 4350 Amboy Road., Blthw- said he wasn't surprised his dad 27-year-old John Tierney of and Robert Linnane of Ladder ville, S.I, risked his life ushering people Ladder 9, a firefighter who im- 20. PDNY Lt Philip Petti. out■ of Lhe burning towers. pressed colleagues with his Fanning, S4, who traveled to Baiialion 7- At 2 p.m., St, “My father loved being a fire- - good oaruro. Oklahoma City to survey the ■ 1 Margaret Miuy Romon man. I rust knew my dad was Hundreds — including Fire damage following the 1995 Catholic Church, S60 Lin­ (here when the buildings col- lapsed," he said. Commissioner Thomas Von tssen and firefighters from as bombing, was remembered as one of the depanireat’sbesr. I ; I coln Ave., Grant City. S.I. PA Police Ofificer Gregg “He ahvays lived every day far as New Hampshire and Flor- The second service, immedi- I Froenber. At 3 p,in., St. like U would be his last, and he Ida — aliended back-ioback ately followiaa Fanning’s me- , died saving people on that day.” ................ Lawrence Roman Catholic nwmorial services at St. morial. was 10 honor Linnane. a Hames vf Svrvtwn: Church, Main Street, Aho on Staten Island, hun- Thomas the Apostle Church in firefighter who exemplified the r were not reMisetL Chester. N.J. dreds of faxtily members and West Hempstead, LI., for lohn "spirit" of the depanment. __

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