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There
are many places on the Internet to post a condolence message about the
EMS personnel lost at the WTC disaster.
Won't you please do a bit more than post an online message? Send a card
to the distraught and grieving family.
We will supply an address if the family desires to have cards
sent.
(Please
note in card that no reply is necessary)
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"Anyone
who has ever worked with Mark will tell you what a Huge
Heart he had. Mark loved to Help others. He was more
than your boss, he was your friend. I can't even count
the number of times I went into his office just to talk,
sometimes to cry, he was always there. We will always
remember him as "Uncle Mark". We Love You
Mark, may you rest in peace."
co-worker
Mark
was an Emergency Medical Technician for Hunter
Ambulance, and was dispatched to the scene on September
11. He was killed in the collapse of Tower 2. Anyone who
ever met Mark will tell you that he had a huge heart. He
was like a teddy bear. He was more than your boss -- he
was your friend. I can't even count the number of times
I went into his office just to talk, sometimes to cry.
We will always remember him as "Uncle Mark."
Crystal Passarotti, co-worker
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Mark
Schwartz
Mark
Schwartz, EMT-P
age 50
West Hempstead, N.Y.
New York Presbyterian Hospital
and Hunter Ambulance Asst. Vice President
The
hours were grueling: up at 4:30 a.m., home at 7:30 p.m. during the week,
plus an overnight shift on Friday and back to work on Saturday at 3
p.m., until 7 a.m. Sunday. But Mark Schwartz, 50, an emergency medical
technician, needed money for the house, the family's first, bought three
years ago in West Hempstead, N.Y., and the vacations once a year with
his wife, Patricia, and two children. The Schwartzes would have been
married 25 years on Sept. 19, said their daughter, Jennifer, 23.
"I always knew that I could go to him if I had something wrong with
me, and he'd know a little bit more about it than I did," Jennifer
Schwartz said. "It was just like a thrill; he'd get so excited when
he was going to help somebody."
Her brother, Andrew, 20, is studying to be a paramedic. "Dad always
wanted to be a paramedic, but he never had time to go to school for
it," she said. "My brother's going to fulfill his dream."
"It's just hard because my dad went to work that day, and he wasn't
sick," she said. "He was going to come home. I guess that
wasn't in his plan."
Special
Letter about all
WTC EMS LODD's
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