No particular reason why I'm thinking about you today. Just hoping that you and my mom are having lots of laughs in heaven. xo

On that fateful morning I watched in horrow and disbelief...Eleven years have passed but I will never forget you my friend...Even though we never met until I saw your name on a missing banner along the pier in Hoboken. You will be forever in my prayers as will your family and friends. I promise you will never be forgotten.

Dear Joseph, Joseph I did not know you but out of respect to you and your family on this day I want you to know I will never forget you and all the great people that loss there lives. The next time I am in New York I will look for your name and give my respects. My best to you and your family.

I will always potect your baby sister.Love you ,mike

I am remembering Joseph today and praying again for his family. I read his name in 2001 while we were in San Diego at the tribute there. I just wanted you to know that another year has gone by and I still think of,remember and pray for you. Blessings and love, Maxine

My daughter katie is a senior at Pinewood Preparatory School in Summerville, SC. She grew up here. I'm from the Philly area. Katie was asked to write about someone who perished on 9/11. She wrote about your son Joseph A. Ianelli. She spoke about your son at an assembly that paid tribute to those who died on that terrible day. Pinewood's website is www.pinewoodprep.com if you wish to see it. I pray that Almighty God continue to comfort you.

Joe, I woke up this morning and havent stopped thinking about you, more than every other day, Im not sure why but it probably has to do with Jillian. She wrote about you in school again. I just wanted to let you know how much you are loved and how much you are missed. You meant so much to so many. I love you...Deb

Joe, I believe fate has me working @ Marsh in Hoboken to remember and pay homage to your life and the memories that we once shared. As time goes on, always in my heart and head you know I think of you and you will always be someone special to me... no matter what may come.. Victoria

FIVE YEARS AND IT SEAMS LIKE YESTERDAY. OH MY GOD. DO WE MISS YOU. YOU WERE THE NICEST AND SWEETEST YOUNG MAN. TAKEN AWAY TO SOON. YOU WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED AS A HERO. I HOPE THAT YOUR TWO NEPHEWS COREY AND JUSTIN WILL FOLLOW IN YOUR FOOTSTEPS. YOU WOULD BE VERY PROUD OF YOUR SISTER AND BROTHER-IN-LAW ON THE GREAT JOB THEY ARE DOING WITH THERE SONS. HOWIE AND I HAVE MOVED TO FLORIDA BUT WE ARE ALWAYS THINKING OF YOU. GOD BLESS YOU AND MAY GOD TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOU.

this has been a strange week honey. I miss you so much.

I am not sure what to say. I never met Joe. I stumbled across this website by complete accident. I felt as if I had been led by God here. I want you all to know that there are many people out there who each night pray for your families and all the families who lost loved ones on that fateful day. Monica, I hope that you find a way to smile. I God has a plan for you and one day you and Joe will be as one. Until then, if you get lonely just look inside yourself, I am sure that he is within your soul. Bless you all and remain strong, there are many people out there who may not know you but love you just the same. Elizabeth McBride

Honey, I love you more today then yesterday. Another Christmas without you seems impossible but I know you are right here with me. Merry Christmas Pop

Dear Family of Joe, I read Joe's name out at the rememberance of 9-11 here in San Diego a year ago. I have kept his picture on my refrigerator as if he were another one of my kids. I want you to know I pray for you when I look over at that sweet face. My heart and hugs to you and Monica are stretched all the way across this dear country. God bless you. Maxine Gross

happy 30th a little late it hurts to think about the party we talked about...because i am almost at my 40....im here in long islandwhere we wouldve been partying right about now or in a few weeks............I WISH YOU COULD COME TO OUR PARTY!!!!! WE WONT EVEN THING OF YOU NOT COMING I KNOW IN MY heart that your gonna be there....I LOVE YOU ....HAPPY BIRTHDAY

joe...happy 30 and just as we planned ..i have a happy 40also. No matter how i see it ITS NOT HAPPY AT ALL. So much for our double party...we shoudve had it by now. Im typing this in Long Island thinking about our beach party and wishing that we could celebrate JUST THIS ONE thing. my family wants to have a party for me.....i kind of feel like someone would be missing.........PLEASE BE THERE and let me know that you are with me so that i can celebrate with my favorite person....i love you joe.........happy birthday

To Joe and Barbara Ianelli, There are no words I can say that will ease your pain with the loss of your son. My heart goes out to the both of you. I remember your son as a small child when I passed by your house a couple of times early in my career. When I read about your loss today, a knot formed in my stomach. May god give you both the strenght to carry on with your lives.

my dear son joseph, i thought by writing to here that maybe you would give me some kind of a sign that you were okay. i'm really losing it, because it seems as though everything around me is going on as usual and even though i go about my day i feel like i'm in a bubble looking out and when this bubble breaks then what, i'm rambling as usual but i can't help it i miss you and what should have been. i love you always mom

Just wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas in heaven.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOSEPH, FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY WE WISH YOUR FAMILY THE STRENGTH TO MAKE IT THROUGH THE DAY. WE MISS YOU VERY MUCH. LOVE BENAY AND HOWIE

JOSEPH, ITS FATHER'S DAY AND I CAN'T IMAGINE WHAT YOUR DAD IS GOING THROUGH. I KNOW HE MISSES YOU SO MUCH THAT IT HURTS. YOUR MOTHER IS FEELING HER PAIN TOO. AS YOU MUST KNOW YOUR GRANDFATHER IS THERE WITH YOU AND YOUR MOTHER HAS TWO REASONS TO BE HURTING THIS FATHERS DAY AND ALL OTHERS. YOU AND POP POP ARE EATING YOUR PASTA AND SAYING BOY MY MOTHERS WAS MUCH BETTER. I KNOW YOU ARE WATCHING OVER US, I ALWAYS FEEL YOUR PRESENCE AND SEE THAT BEAUTIFUL SMILE. I MISS YOU SO MUCH. I KNOW THAT YOU ARE LOVED BY ALL. HUGS AND KISSES TO YOU. UNTIL I WRITE AGAIN. I LOVE YOU BENAY

HEY JOE....THIS IS REALLY WIERD FOR ME, BECAUSE I WAS NEVER THE TYPE TO BE SENTIMENTAL, I ALWAYS TRY TO BE THE ONE THAT CAN HANDLE THE WAIT OF THE WORLD FOR EVERYONE, IN THAT REGARD A LOT LIKE YOU. BUT I MUST TELL YOU I COME TO THIS SITE AND READ THE LETTERS THAT YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS WRITE TO YOU AND ABOUT YOU, AND I SIT HERE AND ACTUALLY CRY, WHICH AS YOU KNOW IS NOT ME, BUT I MUST TELL YOU CUZ I MISS YOU, AND IT HURTS, IT NOT JUST A HURT FOR ME ITS THE HURT THAT I FEEL WHEN I SEE YOUR MOM AND DAD, WHEN I LOOK AT JEN, I CAN FEEL THAT HURT, I LOOK AT YOUR FATHER AND I COULDNT EVEN IMAGINE WHAT HE HAS GONE THROUGH LOSING A SON AN ONLY SON, IT HAS TAUGHT ME HOW PRECIOUS A LIFE IS, I LOOK AT YOUR MOM AND DAD, AND I JUST WANT TO HUG THEM AND TAKE THEIR PAIN AWAY, BUT I DONT KNOW IF THERE IS ANYTHING THAT WILL EVER DO THAT. JOE I HAVE KNOWN YOU SINCE YOU WERE LIKE 7 YEARS OLD, WHEN I BECAME INVOLED IN THIS WACKY FAMILY, AND YOU WERE ALWAYS A GREAT KID, AND YOU WILL ALWAYS BE A GREAT KID. JOE WE MISS YOU, MORE THAN I EVER IMAGINED I WOULD. NOT A DAY GOES BY THAT I DONT THINK OF YOU, I KEEP ALL THE STUFF FROM YOUR MEMORIAL ON MY DESK AT WORK, I GUESS IT GIVES ME A LITTLE STRENGTH, WHEN THE DAY GETS A LITTLE TOUGH OR THINGS ARE NOT GOING WELL, I LOOK TO YOU JOE, I LOOK TO YOU FOR THAT LITTLE BIT OF STRENGTH, THAT GETS ME PAST THAT PROBLEM. HEY JOE, KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR MY FATHER, WHEN I PRAY TO HIM, I TELL HIM TO LOOK OUT FOR YOU. WELL WE ALL LOVE YOU, DEE ME AND THE KIDS, AND WE WILL NEVER LET THEM FORGET YOU, AND THEY WILL NEVER LET US FORGET YOU, UNTIL NEXT TIME JOE MISSING YOU....YOUR CUZ IN LAW RICHIE

Hi brother, I'm sorry it's taken me so long to write I just don't have the head for it lately or the time to sit down and think without being interrupted. It's been almost 9 months already since you left us and it feels like forever yet it feels like yesterday, I don't know anymore. It feels like just yesterday you were holding Corey in the kitchen saying how afraid you were that you might break him and now he's already 15 and a half months old. I can't believe that you are not here to play with him and teach him how to play baseball and basketball. I think he is going to be tall like you because he's already tall for his age, I hope he is just like you in every way he can be. I hope you hear me when I talk to you, if you do you know that it is all day long and all night too, sorry about that there are just some things taht i only can share with you. I miss you so much brother it hurts so bad just thinking that you will never hug me again and that you're not there when I need advice. It's almost your birthday, that's going to be a tough one. I just can't believe you're not here to celebrate your 29th birthday. We should be making plans to go out and have fun and instead it's just going to be another miserable day that's going to be almost unbearable to get through like so many other holidays. I miss shopping for presents for you and going half, I miss your phone calls in the morning to see how I am and how Corey is, I can go on and on about what I miss.. I miss everything about you!!! I want so bad for this to be a bad bad dream and to wake up already but I know that will never happen. There are so many times where I just want to call you and talk to you and I will never get to talk to you again or hear your voice again and it hurts, it hurts too much at times and i just want to scream my head off. I have so much pain and anger and I know it will never go away. You not being here to see my kids grow up and me not being able to see your kids grow up and have them all play together like I always dreamed of, is what hurts the most. I know we would have had so much fun and our kids would have been just as close as me and you were. It also kills me to see mommy and daddy in so much pain. Mommy lets it out and seeing her in so much pain and not being able to do anything about it makes me feel so helpless. I just want to be able to take that pain away from her. But daddy just keeps it bottled up inside, you know him, and its not good for him. He doesn't let us know how he is feeling but I see how much pain and hurt is in his eyes when he sees something of yours around the house or they mention something about that day on the tv. I see his eyes fill up with tears but he tries to hold them back. Their hearts are so broken along with nanny's and they will never be repaired. Nothing could ever change or take away their pain accept for you to be here with us again. For some reason Corey never watches tv but when sports come on his eyes are glued to it, I know you have something to do with that! I hope you hear us say goodmorning to you every morning, he will be saying goodmorning uncle joe all by himself soon, don't you worry! He kisses your pictures and everyones charms with your picture on it. He will feel like he knows you don't you worry, me and mike and everyone else will always talk about what an amazing person you were so much so that he will feel it himself. I'm going to go now but I will never ever say goodbye because I know you are still around us every day. Please look out for us brother and know that I love you so much and miss you so much words could never express my pain. You were, no you are, the best brother and friend anyone could ever ask for and I thank god for all of our great memories that I will cherish until we meet again. i love you forever, Jen

WE MISS YOU SO MUCH. YOU WERE SUCH A WARM AND LOVING PERSON. WE ALWAYS HAD FUN TIMES TOGETHER. WE PROMISE WE WILL ALWAYS BE THERE FOR YOUR FAMILY BECAUSE YOUR MOTHER IS CLOSER THAN A SISTER TO ME AND YOUR DAD IS LIKE A BROTHER TO HOWIE. YOU WOULD BE SO PROUD OF YOUR SISTER AND BROTHER IN LAW, THEY ARE DOING SUCH A GREAT JOB WITH COREY. WE LOVE YOU VERY MUCH AND YOU WILL ALWAYS BE IN OUR PRAYS AND STAY IN OUR HEARTS FOR ETERNITY.I KNOW YOU ARE WATCHING OVER ALL OF US AND WE WILL ALL BE OK. GOD BLESS YOU FAMILY AND GOD BLESS AMERICA

MISS YOU MAN, ITS BASEBALL NOW AND THAT MAKES IT HARDER . I THINK YOU ARE WATCHING ME PITCH, OR HIT, OR STRIKE OUT,,,,,WHEN YOU SEE THAT, DONT BE MAD...dont SHAKE YOUR HEAD JUST KNOW THAT I KNOW WHAT YOU WOULD BE DOING IF YOU WERE HERE. IF YOU WERE HERE STILL, YOUD BE COACHING ME ON THE SIDE AND PLAYING WITH ME ALL THE TIME.. I MISS YOU COUSIN... I LOVE YOU FIELD ANGEL

Poppop, From the moment I saw you, I wanted to meet you. From the moment I met you, I wanted to know you. From the moment I knew you, I was in love with you. From the moment I loved you, I wanted to share my life with you...and from that moment to this moment and for all moments in my life and in your world, I will love you with all of my heart. Love and all it's wonders are mine right now becuase of you and I am forever changed for who you are and for what you gave me. No one else has ever made me fell as happy, as content, as full of life and joy as you have and wherever I am, you are there also. In my thoughts, in my heart, in my soul I will carry you with me all of the day's of my life. Do you know why I thought of you today? cause I think of you everyday. Thank you for being who you are and for letting me love you and thank you for asking me to be you're wife. I'll be loving you always, you have stolen my heart Joseph Anthony Ianelli and I have total faith that when it's my time, we will have it all. Please wait for me wherever you are because even if I'm 90, when I leave this earth, you will be mine. In you honey, I have discovered the meaning of love and I am truly humbled by it. I love you so much Monica

JOE WAS MY COUSIN, AND A VERY SPECIAL FRIEND. OUR RELATIONSHIP WAS ONE THAT COULD NEVER BE EXPLIANED BUT TO THOSE WHO KNEW US, IT WAS AN EXCEPTIONAL ONE. I WAS 10 YEARS OLDER THAN JOE AND WHEN WE WERE YOUNG I WAS THE OLDER COUSIN AND THE BABYSITTER BUT AS WE GREW OLDER, I GREW TO RESPECT JOE AS A MAN, AND AS A FRIEND. WE WERE THERE FOR ONE ANOTHER ALL THE TIME, HIS OPINIONS ALWAYS MATTERED TO ME AND HE WAS ALWAYS WILLING TO HELP IN ANY WAY HE COULD.I ALWAYS KNEW THAT I COULD COUNT ON JOE TO BE THERE AND TO MAKE ME PROUD.EVERY CHRISTMAS, JOE WAS HERE WITH ME AT MIDNIGHT, PUTTING ALL THOSE TOYS TOGETHER (AND DRINKING ALL THAT WINE)SOMETIMES HE WAS THERE WITH FRANK PUTTING UP THE OUTSIDE LIGHTS...(AND STILL DRINKING ALL THAT WINE). I KNOW HE WAS HERE THIS CHRISTMAS, IN MY HEART. I'LL MAKE SURE THAT EVERY CHRISTMAS FOR THE REST OF MY CHILDRENS LIVES, JOE WILL LIVE IN THEIR HEARTS, BECAUSE OF HOW MUCH HE PUT INTO THEIR LIVES AND INTO MAKING THEM HAPPY. JOE HAD DREAMS OF A FUTURE THAT I KNOW VERY WELL, AND I WANTED TO SEE THEM ALL COME TRUE FOR HIM, BECAUSE NOBODY DESERVED TO BE HAPPIER THAN MY COUSIN. I'LL NEVER HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO FOR HIS CHILDREN WHAT HE HAD DONE FOR MINE, BUT ILL BE TRUE TO HIS MEMORY AND MAKE SURE HIS NEPHEW COREY, AND WHATEVER OTHER NEICES AND NEPHEWS THERE ARE TO COME, ALWAYS KNOW WHAT A BEAUTIFUL BOY HE WAS AND WHAT AN EXCEPTIONAL MAN HE BECAME.I LIKE TO THINK THAT JOE IS STILL HAPPY..AND THAT HE 'S WATCHING US ALL. I CAN SAY THAT JOE LAUGHED ALOT, LOVED ALOT AND REALLY ENJOYED LIFE. HE LEFT THE WORLD A MUCH BETTER PLACE BECAUSE OF WHAT HE PUT INTO IT. I HAVE 28 YEARS OF BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES, SOME STILL MAKE ME LAUGH ALTHOUGH MANY CAN BRING ON THE TEARS.I WILL PASS ON THOSE MEMORIES FOR YEARS TO COME AND WE'LL ALL LAUGH AND CRY TOGETHER TELLING STORIES SO THAT HE WILL LIVE ON IN OUR HEARTS. JOE, ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION, AND IN MORE THAN ONE CARD, YOU SAID THAT I TAUGHT YOU THE REAL MEANING OF FAMILY, WELL THOSE WERE BEAUTIFUL WORDS AND THEY MADE ME FEEL GOOD THEN AND THEY STILL MAKE ME FEEL GOOD BUT I NEED YOU TO KNOW THAT THE REAL MEANING OF FAMILY CAME FROM YOU....MANY LESSONS WERE LEARNED FROM YOU WHILE YOU WERE HERE AND EVEN MORE NOW THAT YOU'VE MOVED ON. ILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU FOR WHAT YOU WERE AND FOR WHAT YOU'VE MADE THOSE AROUND YOU....YOU ARE AN ANGEL NOW, AND AT EVERY ONE OF THOSE BASEBALL GAMES ILL LOOK UP AND YOU AND SMILE KNOWING THAT EITHERE YOU'RE CLAPPING OR SHAKING YOUR HEAD...AND MIKEY AND CJ WILL KNOW TOO. THANKS FOR ALL THE TIME YOU TOOK OUT FOR US,FOR THE LONG TALKS, ALL OF THE SMILES, COUNTLESS TEARS AND OF COURSE ALL THE MEMORIES ....AND MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE.....THANKS.. FOR ALWAYS BEING AN ANGEL...I LOVE YOU FOREVER.. AUNT BARB, UNCLE JOE, AND JENN....TOGETHER WE WILL KEEP HIS SPIRIT ALIVE.....XOXOXO i SAID 'GOD, I HURT' AND GOD SAID 'I KNOW' I SAID 'GOD, I CRY ALOT' AND GOD SAID 'THATS WHY I GAVE YOU TEARS' I SAID, 'GOD, WHY AM I SO DEPRESSED?' GOD SAID, 'THATS WHY I GAVE YOU SUNSHINE' I SAID 'GOD, LIFE IS SO HARD' GOD SAID, 'THATS WHY I GAVE YOU LOVED ONES' I SAID, 'GOD, MY LOVED ONE DIED' AND GOD SAID, 'SO DID MINE!' I SAID 'GOD, IT'S SUCH A LOSS' GOD SAID, 'I SAW MY SON NAILED TO A CROSS' I SAID, 'BUT GOD, NOW YOUR LOVED ONE LIVES' AND GOD SAID, 'SO DOES YOURS.' I SAID, 'GOD WHERE ARE THEY NOW?' AND GOD SAID, 'MINE IS ON MY RIGHT AND YOURS IS IN THE LIGHT.' I SAID, 'GOD, THIS REALLY HURTS!' AND GOD SAID, ' I KNOW! '