It remains the deadliest day in U.S. law enforcement history: 72 peace officers killed in the line of duty during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Seventy-one of those officers died at the World Trade Center. One officer—Richard Guadagno, a sworn refuge manager with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service—was among the passengers who died in Pennsylvania while fighting to regain control of Flight 93 from the terrorists.
Thirty-seven members of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Force were killed on 9/11, by far the most fatalities suffered by a single law enforcement agency in one day in U.S. history. Among those heroes was Police Officer Kenneth F. Tietjen. Earlier this year, during National Police Week, his sister, Laurie Tietjen, took time to speak with the Memorial Fund about her brother and what it means to have his name etched on the marble walls of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial. Names are added each year to the Memorial in random order. When it came time to engrave the names of the fallen officers from 2001, the Memorial Fund decided to make an exception. The 72 heroes of 9/11 were engraved together, in a continuous string along Line 23 of the Memorial’s west wall. It took 14 panels — 9-West through 22-West — to accommodate all of the names. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. The Memorial Fund is offering a limited number of commemorative gift items designed to help ensure the sacrifice of these 72 fallen heroes – and the memory of rest of our fallen peace officers – is never forgotten. |
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