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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Famous quotes containing the words death and/or legacy:
“To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one’s life—all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)