9/11 Commemorative Stained Glass Donated to Village

For 10 years  Sergeant-at-Arms Bill Urianek worked at the World Trade Center.

Following the events of September 11, 2011, Urianek had constructed a stained glass heart commemorating the memory of the Twin Towers before the terrorist attacks, but let it gather dust in his basement.

Bringing it out near the of that Tuesday morning, Urianek had the idea of presenting it to the village for proper display.

Taking the overall shape of a heart, the pane features the towers of the World Trade Center transposed against a backdrop of an American flag. In addition to a Gold Star symbolizing those lives lost in the tragedy, on the bottom of the plate reads a small initial: “R.F. Jr.,” for Robert Fazio Jr., a police officer who was buried on the south tower, and whose father Urianek has known for 60 years.

“I think this is something that we can hang it someplace in the village so that we always remember the firemen and the policemen that got lost on 9/11,” Urianek said during a board meeting on September 7. “I thought ‘let’s not forget these people so that’s why I would like to give it to the village.”