REMEMBERING 9/11, 20 YEARS LATER
New York City PHOTOGRAPH BY HENRY LEUTWYLERA television news
video from the morning
of September 11, 2001,
shows Joe Hunter and
other firefighters
of FDNY Squad 288,
sober-faced and laden
with gear, heading
to the World Trade
Center’s south tower
to assist evacuations.
When the tower
collapsed, Hunter
and his squad mates
perished. His mangled
helmet was found in
the wreckage months
later. In Hunter’s mem-
ory, his family donated
it to the 9/11 Memo-
rial & Museum in New
York, where more than70,000 objects help tell
the stories of victims,
responders, and survi-
vors. “It’s the only thing
we have of him that
was down there,” says
Hunter’s sister, Teresa
Hunter Labo. Still, she
says, it belongs at the
museum. This photo
was taken on April 13.COURTESY BRIDGET HUNTER AND FAMILY, ARTIFACT FROM THE 9/11 MEMORIAL & MUSEUM