Category Archives: 9/11 Community Supports Victims of Terrorism and Disaster

How ‘angels’ from 9/11 are rebuilding lives in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico

By Kimberly | Published: October 31, 2019

A band of police officers, construction workers and firefighters with links to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Heart 9/11, are making repairs in Hurricane Maria-ravaged Puerto Rico. Diane Herbst of People spoke to Bill Keegan, retired PAPD lieutenant and founder of Heart 9/11 about their work.

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Traditional Irish meitheal alive and well in New York to aid 9/11 victim Owen McConnell

By Kimberly | Published: October 30, 2019

There was a large meitheal in the Bronx and Yonkers last week to help Owen McConnell, a young carpenter and family man stricken with stage-4 lung cancer from his work at the World Trade Center after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, reports Niall O’Dowd of Irish Central. In Ireland, a meitheal is a team of workers or neighbors who work together to help a neighbor in need, helping with crops or building barns or the like. Everyone contributes and recipients now will be helpers later. 

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How to help the Bahamas

By Kimberly | Published: September 5, 2019

Advice on how to help victims of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas is here.

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