The Freedom Tower

An Irish engraver found a discarded piece of glass at work one day. It resembled the arch of a church stained glass window. Sean Egan, who works at the Waterford factory in Ireland, later came across a well known photo of five New York firemen and policemen carrying a fallen Fire Department chaplain out of the rubble at the World Trade Center.
Egan said the glass he had saved resembled the steel remnants from the World Trade Center photo. He used the discarded glass to replicate the photo image in glass – Waterford glass.
Egan works for Waterford Crystal in Ireland. Egan along with company executives planned to pay an early St. Patrick’s Day visit to a New York firehouse on Wednesday to present the larger crystal sculpture he created to honor the firemen and victims of the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center, according to the Associated Press. “It was such an awful day,” said Egan. “Everyone in Ireland grieved. The firemen were rushing into the building as everyone was rushing out.”
Egan hopes that others will be inspired by the sculpture.
“I want people to see the pain on the faces of the firemen and police officers carrying Father Judge out,” he said. “At the same time I want them to see the peace in Father Judge’s reflection. There is peace among death and destruction. Father Judge is giving us a message.”