Father Mychal Judge is known as the first victim of September 11th. The image of his lifeless body being carried from the World Trade Center is forever etched in my memory.
"You know what I want for Christmas? You know what I really want? Absolutely nothing! I have everything in the world."
Those words of Father Mychal Judge, O.F.M., characterize the simplicity of the New York City Fire Department chaplain killed during a rescue mission immediately following the September 11, 2001, World Trade Center attack. Chaplain to the department since 1992, the 68-year-old died in a hail of steel and concrete as he anointed a firefighter and a fallen office worker. Father Judge became the first officially recorded fatality following the attack.
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