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| Sheriff Hodgson reflects on 911 Following bin Laden’s death |
| By Will Richmond , Herald News Staff Reporter , heraldnews.com |
| Published: 05/05/2011 |
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FALL RIVER —In the days, weeks and months after the Twin Towers plummeted to the ground, help poured in from all corners of the country. The assistance included a 40-person crew led by Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson, who traveled to Ground Zero days after the 9/11 attacks to help with the recovery effort and whatever other assignments came their way. Having spent about six weeks in New York City following the attacks, Hodgson said the death of bin Laden is a display of American resolve. “I was ecstatic about it,” Hodgson said. “He’s not going to be a threat any more. This is a clear message that anyone who displays hate towards America, in this method, that the American resolve is impenetrable.” Help also came from Bristol County in the form of peer support groups for police officers, led in part by Mike Moran, the director of development for Family Services Association of Greater Fall River. Moran said the group, which included local police officers, traveled to New York City the day after Christmas in 2001 to help the New York Police Department officers come to grasp with the loss of colleagues or with the images they encountered since the attacks. Moran said Monday that he was awoken Sunday night by his wife with the news of bin Laden’s death and just as anytime he hears about 9/11 his thoughts immediately went to the officers he encountered. He recalled the emotion that flowed from officers who bottled up the experiences associated with that day and those that followed. “Anytime I read or watch a discussion related to those events I think immediately of the New York City policemen that I sat with and spoke with first-hand,” Moran said. “It’s difficult to separate 9/11 and that experience for me.” As Moran thought back to the emotions of those officers, Hodgson spoke about how the family and friends of 9/11 victims are likely conflicted by bin Laden’s death. “There may be that sense of closure, but then all there’s also all those feelings that come to the surface around their loss,” Hodgson said. When he thinks back on the time spent in New York, Hodgson remembers the outpouring of support that was displayed, from the cooperation of those working at Ground Zero to those who couldn’t help, but lined the streets and displayed signs of thanks to those who aided the recovery effort. Read More. |
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