In memory of

Arthur J. Darby

1956 2022
The Years AfterJune 20, 2022

Died of it afterward.

United States of America

Their life

On June 20, 2022, the New York City Fire Department lost another brother due to September 11th-related illnesses.

Born July 10, 1956, in Brooklyn, New York, he went to Saint Brendan’s Grammar School and graduated from Grady High School. After he was injured in the New York City Fire Department, Arthur, his wife, and two children moved to Florida in 2005. From the time he was a young boy, his family spent the summers in Breezy Point Rockaway, Queens. Arthur worked on his father’s clam boat in Sheepshead Bay. By age 20, he brought his own commercial fishing boat, “The Tammy Gail.” He loved staying busy, so he invested in real estate properties and learned how to become the most handsome, handiest man ever. He just loved helping everyone. Arthur came from a family serving New York City as policemen; as for Arthur, he wanted to be a firefighter. He was appointed on June 22, 1982, to Ladder 172/Engine 330. On August 4, 1991, he was promoted to lieutenant and transferred to Ladder 147/Engine 281. On September 2, 2002, he went to Marine 9, from which he retired on November 20, 2003. He was an outdoorsman who loved boating, fishing, swimming, biking, racquetball, and snow skiing. He was a wild, tall, fearless water skier and enjoyed traveling. He just loved being with family and friends. He always had a smile on his face and a personality bigger than life.

Arthur was a devoted and loving husband, father, son, brother, uncle, and a true friend. He was generous, fun, loving, kind—a man who loved and lived life fully and is missed by many. If you were fortunate enough to have known Arthur, you would recall a fond memory.

Arthur served in the rescue and recovery efforts at Ground Zero on September 11, 2001, and for several months after. He was diagnosed with 9/11-related cancer and passed away on June 20, 2022. Life as we knew it is forever changed, but with our beliefs, he is with “God.”

How they died

Lieutenant of the Fire Department of the City of New York, who died of an illness from the rescue and recovery at the World Trade Center. The department added the name to its World Trade Center Memorial Wall at the ceremony of 06 September 2023. He died on 20 June 2022, aged 65.

The Years After

September 11, 2001

For eight months after the towers came down, men and women worked the site. Firefighters, police, paramedics, iron workers, truck drivers, cleaners, volunteers. They breathed what was in that air, and many of them have died of it since - cancers, lung disease, illnesses that took ten years or twenty to arrive.

More people have now died of September 11th than were killed on September 11th. They are not a footnote to the day. They are the day, arriving late.

A man who walked down eighty flights and out into the street, and who died of a cancer in 2031, was killed by the same attack as the man who never got out. This gate holds them together, because the same morning took them both.

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September 11, 2001

September 11, 2001

On a clear Tuesday morning, four airliners were taken. Two were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York, one into the western face of the Pentagon, and one came down in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after the passengers and crew went forward at the cockpit door.

Two thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven people were killed. Three hundred and forty-three were firefighters of the New York City Fire Department. Seventy-one were law enforcement officers. Eight were paramedics and emergency medical technicians. One hundred and twenty-five died at the Pentagon, military and civilian together. The rest - some two thousand four hundred of them - had gone to work, or boarded a plane, and belonged to no service at all.

None of them began that morning as heroes. A great many of them ended it as heroes: men and women who carried strangers down stairwells, who stayed with people who could not walk, who held a door, who went back up. Four men on a flight over Pennsylvania, who had thirty minutes of telephone calls and knew what had already happened, decided where their aircraft would come down.

At Arlington, the nation set aside its own rules of eligibility and buried the Pentagon's civilian dead in national ground. It had decided that on this day the distinction did not apply.

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