Rick, Billy Minardi and 9/11 and St. John's Huge Loss of Alumni

[BrookJersey Redmen]

Paultzman posted Rick's poignant Tweet about his brother-in-law Billy Minardi.

Let us also remember the 75 St. John's alumni who lost their lives that day (plus many others who died afterwards from complications). My two first cousins FDNY that day and one more recently from cancer after working the pile to try to find his brother.

My guess is that no single University lost so large a number. St. John's University put a lot of people "on the force(s)" (I know personally many in the FDNY who lived on L.I.).

SJU put many alums in the financial sector too.

Let's never forget them, their families and loved ones.

 

[redmen89]

Traditionally the site goes offline for 9/11 not sure why tradition didn't continue this year.

 

[section10]

as an alumni of both SJU and FU, I salute all that lost their lives because of 9/11, but I believe fordham lost more.
I attended my communities 9/11 remembrance event this morning. thankfully the people still come out for this sad event 22 years later.

 

[BrookJersey Redmen]

as an alumni of both SJU and FU, I salute all that lost their lives because of 9/11, but I believe fordham lost more.
I attended my communities 9/11 remembrance event this morning. thankfully the people still come out for this sad event 22 years later.

according to each school's account 75 versus 39, but of course, it is irrelevant, a single loss of life is too many.

 

[fuchsia]

according to each school's account 75 versus 39, but of course, it is irrelevant, a single loss of life is too many.

I was living in Rye on 9/11 but I grew up in Rockaway. Friends there told me there were 93 funerals between Breezy and Beach 98th St. after 9/11. My younger son played center on the Rye HS football team that went to a NYS bowl game and the halfback from that team died on one of the planes that hit the towers. This story goes on for several more paragraphs and I am not going to write them now. Every 9/11 I wonder if Paul will close this site and I think about getting "Nuke Riyadh Now" bumper stickers printed and giving them away to all who want them.

 

[SJU85]

Traditionally the site goes offline for 9/11 not sure why tradition didn't continue this year.

I don’t mind it being open. It didn’t stop me from praying for those lost and their loved ones and those who endured it and are still suffering along with my other ways of paying respect.

 

[BrookJersey Redmen]

Knowing my cousin Ed Geraghty (FDNY Battalion Chief) he would want the site up and running, just like he lived life --- to the fullest. He was running up the stairs on the 77th floor of the second Tower to go down, trying to save lives.

SJU BB connection, --- the school and team arranged for his three boys to be honorary ball balls for a St. John's men's BB game and the team won. Now all three boys are NYC Firemen, like their dad, two uncles, grandfather, 2 great uncles (one being my dad).