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Friday  Jan 27, 2006

Tattoos from Ground Zero

After ten months of work at the ‘hole’, the name given to the remainder of the World Trade Center buildings after the 911 attacks, the workers from Local Union 79 needed to make some kind of gesture as a result of that experience. The work of the firefighters and service workers was publicly exalted, but the Union workers cleaning up the horrific site were given little to take with them but their chronic coughs- a result of the inhaled chemicals.

The workers decided that like many of the military men who got tattoos after Pearl Harbor, a tattoo would best express the camaraderie in tragedy that they shared.

It was difficult to select an image, but they finally decided on the cross of twisted metal that remained on site during their toils.

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