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[title]RECOMMENDED: See all September 11 memorial events
Postcards (St. George Waterfront Esplanade, Staten Island; statenislandusa.com)
James Molinaro, Staten Island borough president: "[On September 11, 2001] I was down at the polling place when a young man came over to me and whispered in my ear that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. I went [to the ferry terminal] and there was absolutely no one coming off from the ferries. I decided to walk down the promenade, and I watched [the north tower] collapse. When I was elected, I went to the mayor [and got approval to use capital funds to build a memorial]. We got 200-and-some-odd proposals from around the world. [Masayuki Sono's] was postcards being sent to the loved ones that were no longer with us. We went to the next of kin [of each victim] and asked them for a photograph, so we could cut out a profile. Sixty percent of the people that have a profile there...[their loved ones] never received remains. That postcard is their cemetery."---As told to Alison Zeidman
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