Remember September 11, 2001
Angels Among Us

Police Officer Glen K. Pettit
Shield 3815
Police Academy Video Production Unit
12/09/2001

 

 

 

 

 

by Dan Samaria
Publisher/GCC
November 14, 2009

Police Officer Glen K. Pettit
Shield 3815
Police Academy Video Production Unit
(recovered)

Glen Pettit took on a lot and never let it slow him down. In addition to being a New York City police officer, he was a TV news cameraman, a freelance photographer, a volunteer fireman and a devotee of Irish tradition and music.

Then there was the endless flood of gifts: from care packages of Skippy peanut butter for friends in East Asia to the prized seat he arranged for his mother at a Christmas Eve mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, just a row from the mayor and police commissioner. “If he loved you he loved you completely, and he was going to take care of you,” recalled Tara Felice, one of his six siblings.

Officer Pettit, 30, had joined the department’s video production unit, which makes training and promotional videos. “His greatest love was being behind a camera, composing a shot,” said his partner, Officer Scott Nicholson. The video unit responded to the World Trade Center attack hoping to get footage for an annual promotional tape it makes called “Heroes.”

“Glen was telling us, ‘I’m gonna get in close; you stay and get the establishing shots, get the rescue workers responding,’ ” Officer Nicholson recalled. “I looked over and Glen was running past me, camera in hand, heading toward the towers.”

- The New York Times 12/09/2001

Source: NYP Angels