9-11 Tribute For Christine Snyder-Aloha No, Aloha no
2,996 is a tribute to the victims of 9/11.
On September 11, 2006, 2,996 volunteer bloggers
will join together for a tribute to the victims of 9/11.
Each person will pay tribute to a single victim.
We will honor them by remembering their lives,
and not by remembering their murderers.
When I heard about this tribute that D.C. Roe was going to do, I was one of them who volunteered for this wonderful mission of his. And I asked if I could do a tribute to someone who came from Hawai’i beacuse that was where I lived. And he has given me this beautiful lady Christine Snyder whom I feel died so young. She was just starting out a brand new life with the man she loved. So now, I present to you a local girl who died at the hands of ugly, malicious human beings who did not have any regards for others.
Christine Snyder, 32, of Aikahi Park in Kailua, Hawaii, was an arborist who worked for Outdoor Circle, a forestry organization. She was married to Ian Pescaia for only 3 months before this fatal day. “People like that don’t come along every day,” he told the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. “I hope the president steps up and does the right thing and asks no questions and takes no prisoners. These people are all dead for nothing.”
Snyder wanted to build up frequent flier miles on her United account. That morning, she called to check on her flight, Flight 91, due to leave after 9 a.m. She moved up to Flight 93 for an earlier start. It was her time, or she would have been on her original Flight 91, and would not have met her death on Flight 93. May the Lord bless her family and ease their pain to such a tragic event.
Taken from post-gazzete.com:
With her long blonde hair and a deep beach tan honed from a lifetime in Hawaii, Christine Snyder often was underestimated by the people she came up against in her job as a certified arborist with the islands’ oldest nonprofit environmental group.
But time and again during her 6 1/2 years with The Outdoor Circle, Snyder would convince developers, builders and state officials of the need to preserve and replant native trees across the Hawaiian islands.As project manager for landscape and planting, “she had a very strong opinion and very good ideas,” said Mary Steiner, chief executive officer of The Outdoor Circle. “She was vibrant and caring, and forceful in seeing things through.
“There is a lot of red tape and a lot of coordination that was required. I think she really knew her stuff.”
A native Hawaiian who was born and raised in Hawaii, Snyder, 32, lived a half hour’s drive east of Honolulu in Kailua in a three-bedroom townhouse with her husband, Ian Pescaia, their cat, Horace, and pointer-red nose pit bull named Zeus. The townhouse was Snyder’s pride and joy, decorated with Hawaiian prints bursting with pastel renderings of women garlanded with flowers.
The couple first met in 1984, when Snyder was a high-school freshman and Pescaia a senior. They began dating in 1993 and were married in June in a casual ceremony near the water.
By then, Snyder already was ensconced with The Outdoor Circle, founded 89 years earlier by civic-minded women who wanted to beautify Honolulu when it was in the midst of a commercial boom from whaling and pineapple and sugar plantations. The three-person staff was supplemented by 11 branches across the state, and Snyder’s job required her to manage scattered groups of volunteers.
A year before her death, Snyder and her volunteers planted 50 coconut, palm, claw-blossomed wiliwili and beach heliotrope trees on Magic Island, part of Ala Moana Beach Park in Oahu. In Waikiki, she argued for developers to save several large old banyan trees at a building site. In the end, after a protracted struggle with the developer, Snyder prevailed. At her memorial service in September, the same developers sent flowers.
May all who perished on this day of September 11, 2001 rest in peace, and may their families be comforted and be blessed by our Almighty God. Our hearts go out to each and everyone who has suffered the loss of a loved one on this tragic day in American history.
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