Sunday, September 11, 2011
Sarah Wainio lost her sister in the Sept. 11 attacks. Ten years later, she keeps her memory alive through a memorial board and Towson University scholarship.
Sarah Wainio's sister is more than a number. Out of the 2,977 who were killed in the Sept. 11 attacks, Wainio remembers a woman who loved life, drank Rolling Rock and took her to the mall. Her sister, Honor Elizabeth Wainio, known as Lizz, was aboard United Flight 93, which crashed in Shanksville, PA. She was 27. Sarah Wainio, a Catonsville resident, was just 14 in 2001. Now 24, she directs fundraising campaigns for Towson University—her sister's alma mater—and sits on the board of Families of Flight 93. The memorial in Shanksville, which was dedicated Saturday, is still not fully funded. (Donations may be directed here.) Wainio worries that some forget Flight 93, which hijackers crashed in a rural Pennsylvania field as passengers fought …
Friday, September 9, 2011
Chuck Ritz, a social worker, motorcycle enthusiast and amateur photographer snapped these images from New York City and Pennsylvania.
"The motto is 'Never Forget,'" said Chuck Ritz of Parkville. "And I haven’t." Ritz, a social worker and a motorcycle enthusiast, is an amateur photographer who has been snapping images at ground zero and the Flight 93 crash site since about a week after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. "After it happened I just sat there and watched it. I thought, this isn’t really happening—so I went up to New York on the 18th of September to see what happened. I spent a whole day up there, came back with 800 photos," Ritz said. Check out this gallery of photos he's taken over the years. Ritz is also one of the organizers of The Ride to Remember 9/11 benefiting the Flight 93 memorial in Shanksville, PA, the Wounded Warrior project, the Frank J. Battaglia …
Monday, May 2, 2011
Dan McNeal, a Towson native, died in the 9/11 attacks.
Dan McNeal's bedroom looks much as it might have 10 years ago. Awards and photographs hang on the wall. His wallet, with a New York City subway card still pristine inside, sits by the door. McNeal, a Towson native who worked in the World Trade Center, was one of the thousands killed in the 9/11 attacks. His mother, Kathryn, still keeps a room clean for him in her Ruxton home, decorated with memorials and mementos from a life cut short. Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaida leader and 9/11 mastermind, was killed early Monday local time in a firefight with American military forces at his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, 40 miles from the capital of Islamabad. As politicians and pundits dissect the complexities surrounding bin Laden's death, the …
Kim Remesch
8:51 pm on Friday, September 9, 2011
So excited to see Chuck's photos here. He has a great eye, and a wonderful heart. He doesn't just think about things...he does things. more ›