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Andrew
Lauren Markoe, Religious News Service, Sep.9, www.religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/after_911_some_run_toward_faith_some_run_the_other_way/
Sean Tallon was nearing the end of his probationary training as a New York City firefighter when the two hijacked planes hit the twin towers of the World Trade Center on 9/11. Tallon, 26, ran up the North Tower to save others.
His family would never see him again.
“As my mom and dad said, `This isn’t it,’” said his older sister, Rosaleen. “God has promised us an eternal life. That gave us the only comfort that could help us at that time.”
Tallon and her parents, all faithful Catholics before 9/11, began going to Mass every day, sometimes more than once a day. They rebuilt a grotto at St. Barnabas Church in the Bronx to memorialize Sean. They composed a prayer in his honor.
“I don’t know how people could get through this without faith,” Tallon said.
Ruth Green also knows something about faith and 9/11.
Green said it would be easier to cope with faith, but her religious faith disappeared that awful September day along with her son, 29-year-old Josh Aron, a newly married equities trader for Cantor Fitzgerald.
“My faith is shaken? Earthquake is a better word,” said Green, who is Jewish. “In the end, I found myself saying, `What kind of God would allow this?’”
