24 THE QUEENS COURIER • SEPTEMBER 8, 2016 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.qns.com 9/11 15th ANNIVERSARY Queens comes together following the 9/11 attacks They gave blood. They raised American fl ags. They comforted fi refi ghters. They prayed. They wept. They remembered. In the days following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Queens residents from every walk of life in this most diverse part of the globe came together to begin healing. Hastily organized candlelight vigils from Bayside to Middle Village and every point in between were organized, drawing thousands of people moved by the events of the week to honor the memories of all those souls murdered. Queens showed a tremendous amount of love, in particular, for the Fire Department, which lost 343 fi refi ghters at the World Trade Center. People went to their local fi rehouses to comfort those who lost close friends and colleagues in the attacks, and would labor for weeks thereafter digging through the rubble at Ground Zero. Residents brought with them food, fl owers, sympathy cards and votive candles. In the days after 9/11, there were episodes of ugly ignorance perpetrated by angry people who attacked people of Muslim and Sikh faith, blaming them for the cowardly acts of terrorists. But the vast majority of Queens residents, of every creed and background, rejected such ignorance and embraced each other in mourning the lost and demanding justice for all. Bayside residents honor the 9/11 victims in the days following the attacks. (Insert) Mourners light candles and lay fl owers outside Squad Company 288/ Haz-Mat 1 in Maspeth. Bayside residents honor the 9/11 victims in the days following the attacks. File photos/THE COURIER
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