Re-Post: Paul's 9/11 Memorial

<span style="font-style: italic;">This post originally appeared in 2008 and again in 2009. It seems appropriate to re-run it again today:<br /> </span><br /> <br /> <img alt="" border="0" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244545006085718850" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg41TQjK6iz9RN-SRP-QWwYD97v27IFChHeEPia8CldGI0m5Y7sBwNove3VJPd78pvsw-NFjALVONlcJBrh25QOwclI_dIEI6suOCOUGA-whL1-FP0KkHirEBlE85kuEPHQF-XrSusi0DmK/s400/PICT0567.JPG" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="255" /><br /> <br /> Earlier this month, I mentioned meeting Paul here, on the bike path that runs along the southern tip of Brooklyn.<br /> <br /> I saved the other tattoo photo I took of Paul's work for today, the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.<br /> <br /> What I didn't mention in the previous post is that Paul is a federal agent who grew up in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.<br /> <br /> From his vantage point there, he watched the World Trade Center being built in the late 1960's. He was working in 6 World Trade seven years ago for the U.S. Customs Department when the towers came down, and he spent four months at Ground Zero and the Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island, searching for remains.<br /> <br /> The tattoo is a poignant piece, with the sun shining between the towers. Below is Paul's badge from the Department of Homeland Security, which has evolved into U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Particulatly unusual is the depiction of 9/11 in Roman numerals:<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">IX XI.<br /> </span><br /> <div style="text-align: left;"><br /> I don't believe I had ever seen it represented that way before.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></div></div><br /> Like the tattoo in the earlier post, this piece was inked by Joe at Brooklyn Ink.<br /> <br /> Thanks to Paul for sharing this WTC memorial piece with us here on Tattoosday.<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;">~ ~ ~</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: left;">We here at Tattoosday send our thoughts and prayers to all the families of  people who died on 9/11, and to the families of all of the men and women who have died since then, serving our country.</div><br /> <div style="text-align: left;"></div>

Re-Post: Paul's 9/11 Memorial

This post originally appeared in 2008 and again in 2009. It seems appropriate to re-run it again today: Earlier this month, I mentioned...

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