Source: United States Navy
NORFOLK, Va. The asymmetrical steel slab with its crimson and blue background looms over USS New York’s (LPD 19) amphibious well deck. Like the city it came from, it is a visual presence impossible to ignore. Its creator, Richard Othmer, meant it to be so. With help from several others, the retired New York City fireman, recovered the symbolic steel from the remnants of Ground Zero and engraved upon it the names of all first responders who gave their lives to rescue those trapped inside the World Trade Center towers.