Sometimes it seems like fifty years ago … and other times it seems like yesterday. 

Most New Yorkers try to enjoy a dry, crisp, clear and sunny day … but somewhere deep down inside we always seems to say to ourselves … “This is the kind of weather we had on September 11, 2001.

As the Fifth Year anniversary of September 11^th approaches, we of the New York Grand Lodge, Order Sons of Italy in America would like to dedicate this page to those men, women and children who lost their lives on the horrific day; those brave people who gave their lives and to all the heroes who responded to the disaster. 

We feel that the events of that day must never be forgotten and we most especially remember those hundreds of Italian Americans who lost their lives on September 11, 2001.

OSIA lost some of their own family … and we stop to pray for and remember …

Peter A. Gay

Captain Kathy Mazza Delosh

Thomas Strada

Joseph Riverso

Debbie Mannetta

Joseph M. Romagnolo

John T. Vigiano

Det. Joseph V. Vigiano

Rudolph Mastrocinque

Frank Mancini

St. John’s University (at the Student Center Gym in Staten Island) is hosting a viewing of a beautiful 16,000 square foot quilt commemorating the victims of 911 on Saturday, September 9^th, Sunday, September 10^th and Monday, September 11th.  The exhibit is FREE and open to the public.  For information call (718) 990-1941 or contact info@where-to-turn.org.  For directions, please visit www.stjohns.edu.

Almighty God, the dreadfulness of 9/11/01 will be forever with us.

We looked with horror on the terrorist attacks of September 11th.
But we looked with honor on acts of courage by ordinary people
who sacrificed themselves to prevent further death and destruction.

We shed our tears in a common bond of grief for those we loved and lost.
We journeyed through a dark valley, but your light has led us to a place of hope.
You have turned our grief into determination.
We are resolved to do what is good, and right, and just.

Help us to remember what it means to be Americans—
a people endowed with abundant blessings.
Help us to cherish the freedoms we enjoy and inspire us to stand
with courage, united as one Nation in the midst of any adversity.

Lord, hear this prayer for our Nation. Amen

(written by an unidentified Navy chaplain)