September 11 in Stained Glass

My name is Anna Truckey. I am 28 years old. Back in January of 2001 my grandfather died and left a stained glass commission unfinished for my parish church, Sacred Heart of the Hills Catholic Church in Auburn Hills , Michigan. All I had from him was a rough watercolor sketch of what the window design was supposed to be of. That year, after September 11th, I noticed that one panel in my grandfather's design would (eerily) lend itself perfectly to be transformed into a 9/11 memorial window. All I had to add was the two towers in the background. In the panel were already a flight attendant, a businessman,a man of dark complexion, a doctor and a nurse, a fireman and police officer, a partial business woman on a computer (her head is in another frame of the window) and a miscellaneous man in the top right of the panel. I was given permission by the parish priest to do what I wanted with the window. Several of the portraits that I included in the window were people who died on September 11 either in the towers or on the planes. I pulled their faces off of websites of victims. One face is of a man who died that day and was the son in law of a former teacher. I turned the flight attendant into one specifically from American Airlines. I put FDNY 9-11-01 on the fireman's sleeve.
The portrait in the top right corner I transformed into Father Mychal F. Judge. I was so transfixed by his story and the photo of Father Judge's body being hauled away from the scene that I knew I had to include him.

If anyone stumbles across this blog and knew Father Judge personally, I would love to send you a photo or two of my window and his portrait in it (no charge). Please just leave a comment and an email and I will get back to you.

God bless.