Death and Legacy
O'Neill was killed on the day of the attacks, and his remains were recovered from the World Trade Center site on September 21, 2001.
There is extensive coverage of John O'Neill's anti-terrorist work at the FBI and insights into his character and his private life in the book The Looming Tower (2006) by Lawrence Wright and in The Black Banners (2011) by Ali Soufan.
At the National 9/11 Memorial, O'Neill is memorialized at the North Pool, on Panel N-63.
John O'Neill is buried in the churchyard of St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church, Atlantic City, NJ; the church where he once served as an altar boy.
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“But the life of Spirit is not the life that shrinks from death and keeps itself untouched by devastation, but rather the life that endures it and maintains itself in it. It wins its truth only when, in utter dismemberment, it finds itself.... Spirit is this power only by looking the negative in the face, and tarrying with it. This tarrying with the negative is the magical power that converts it into being. This power is identical with what we earlier called the Subject.”
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