Krystyna Sanderson
Courage: Jimmy and Jerry
Jimmy: I remember one little ten year old Spanish
girl whose father died. We took her down to the site and said a prayer,
then we took her by the church and gave her an angel pin and told her
she would always have a guardian angel.
Jerry: Most cops don't get to bond with people.
Nobody calls us for happy occasions. Out of something bad something
good has come. This is good. The friendships we've made. The relationships.
Jimmy Abbananto and Jerry Krusch, partners in the NYP force.
The series "COURAGE"
is a part of a photographic project carried out at St. Paul's Chapel,
New York City, one block from Ground Zero. I have been given an honor
and a privilege to be the official photographer at St. Paul's, photographing
police, firefighters, national guard, engineers, construction workers
and other relief workers.
A selection of the photographs were presented as part of a lecture, A Healing at Ground Zero at Harvard Medical School in December and can be viewed at the St. Paul's Chapel website, www.saintpaulschapel.org.
