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Construction workers at World Trade center immortalized with graffiti - slideshow



WTC Tower 4 worker and Co Kerry native John O'Shea signs the final beam at the topping out ceremony in June - John O'Shea Eurotech foreman and Kerry native John O'Shea signs Tower 4's final beam WTC Tower 4 worker John O'Shea, a Kerry native, signs his family's names on the tower's final beam Derry native James McCusker signs his name on WTC's Tower 4's final steel beam Kerry natives at the Tower 4 WTC site showing their county pride on a Eurotech toolbox - John O'Shea County rivalries are in full swing among the Tower 4 Irish workers at the World Trade Center! - John O'Shea WTC Tower 4 worker Miguel repping Co. Kerry - John O'Shea A popular spanish phrase, 'Te Amo Tres Metros Sobre el Cielo,' meaning, 'I love you three steps above heaven' - AP A steel column, for the Freedom Tower bears signatures of Sept. 11 victims' family members - AP Graffiti left by visitors to the site  - AP Graffiti left by Michael Chertoff, the former director of Homeland Security, on a steel column on the 104th floor  - AP Autographs cover a wall on a top floor of One World Trade Center  - AP A drawing of a car on the 104th floor - AP A steel column for the Freedom Tower bears signatures of September 11 victims' family members  - AP The name Antony is engraved into a column high above the New York skyline - AP  A tribute in graffiti to Lilian Fredricks that a construction worker left on a steel column on the 104th floor of One World Trade Center in New York. - AP Ironworkers James Brady, left, and Billy Geoghan release the cables from a steel beam after connecting it on the 104th floor of One World Trade Center in New York - AP A construction worker signs a ceremonial steel beam at One World Trade Center. - AP 'We remember. We rebuild. We come back stronger!' It is signed by a visitor to the site last June - President Barack Obama - AP

Topics: New York , World Trade Center , Irish American , Irish roots


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