Flowers

The origin of it was September 11th, 2001, and on the day after, this place was an acre of flowers. So I just kept on bringing flowers because I’m from New York and I remember the Twin Towers being built.

There was a lot of controversy about them being built at the time and you could see them from almost anywhere in Manhattan. It was amazing,” she said.

Mr Rooney was keen to thank Ms Boland in person and publicly recognise her dedication to the memory of those who lost their lives that day.

Every year, Ms Boland asked permission, for security reasons, to leave flowers along with a poem and her name and address.

“They have to put the flowers through security – that’s just the way it is,” she said.

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