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Project 2,996 - Tribute to Mark H. Rosen - Victim of 9/11 Click here - A Tribute to the Victims and Heroes of September 11th. I am once again privileged and honored to participate in Project 2996 where participants pay tribute to a particular victim of the September 11th terrorist attack in our country.

This year I get to pay tribute to a family man, Mark H. Rosen of West Islip, NY. He died at the premature age of 45.

Mr. Rosen was a partner in the fixed income division of Sandler O'Neill & Partners. He was one of the many confirmed dead at or inside the World Trade Center.

I was able to find a little blurb about Mr. Rosen which I enjoyed reading. I would like to share it with you:

As a partner at Sandler O'Neil, Mark H. Rosen knew investment banking. As a father, he knew baton twirling.

His daughter Amanda, now 13, got the twirling but early, becoming a member of the PAL Sparklers, a club in Brentwood, New York, near the family's home in West Islip. For a couple of years, no family vacation was complete without a least a few days spent in some out-of-the-way place at a competition.

"He was quite happy to sit in a hot gymnasium in places like Grand Rapids or Dubuque, and watch his daughter twirl." his wife Patti recalled.

Twirling also aided Mr. Rosen 45 in fulfilling another familial obligation, playing Santa Claus at annual school breakfasts. Mrs. Rosen is Catholic, and the children- Amanda, Mathew 12, and Bryan 16- were raised in the Church. Mr. Rosen was Jewish, but that did not matter. "We talked him into it." Mrs. Rosen said.

He borrowed the red suit from the Sparklers, who also recruited him to play Santa in some local twirling shows. He would be surrounded by jumping girls with batons, constantly whizzing past his nose, but he never flinched, having removed his glasses for that authentic Claus look. "He couldn't see a thing without them." Mrs. Rosen Said.

Source: Portraits 9/11/01: the collected "Portraits of grief" from The New York times

Profile published in THE NEW YORK TIMES on December 22, 2001.

I cannot even begin to imagine losing my husband or our child losing his father. Mr. Rosen's family must surely still feel the devastating loss of their beloved husband and father.

I hope they are comforted by the thought that they will some day be all together for eternity.

With respect to Mr. Rosen's Jewish faith I offer the Kaddish for him:

May His great name be blessed forever and to all eternity.

Prayer Source


9-11 Heroes - Victim Memorial - Mark H. Rosen

Photo Source Posted by Esther Gefroh Posted 12:00 AM Labels: September 11th Sarah - Kala said...

ONe of the best tributes I've read today. I love that you honored his life with the kaddish (sp) as well.
 Esther G. said...

Why thank you so much Sarah.
 
That Kaddish was beautiful!
 
It really is a nice prayer.
 
Lovely, thank you. I honor Christopher Paul Slattery.
 
I know I'm a few days late, but like Sarah, I thought the tribute was lovely, and I also am touched you offered Kaddish for him.
 
Thank you so much Alicia and Gail.

With lots of aloha,
 prosen34 said...

Thank you so much for remembering my husband Mark Rosen. I just found this posting-minutes after hearing of Osama Bin Laden's death. It is heartwarming to myself and our three children that he has not been forgotten.
Patti Rosen
 
Thank you so much for remembering my loving husband Mark Rosen. I just found this posting-minutes after learning of Osama Bin Laden's death. It is heartwarming for myself and my children to know he has not been forgotten.
 
Dear Patti:
My sincerest condolences to you and your entire family. Mr. Rosen seemed like a very wonderful man.
 
Beautiful tribute. I knew Mark when he was a Jewish kid from Bayside, Queens, and even though I consider myself an equal opportunity worshipper today, I was born a Jewish girl from Flushing, so I appreciate you having honored that aspect of his being.

 
Debbie, I appreciate you taking the time to comment. God bless.
 
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