9/11 Wedding Photo Returned To Owner After 13-Year Search


Thirteen years is a long time to look for anything, much less a forgotten photo. But 27,000 tweets later, Elizabeth Stringer Keefe’s determination has finally paid off. As of Saturday morning, she has finally been able to locate the people in a photo found at Ground Zero after 13 years of searching, reported Mashable.

Even more uplifting, no one in the photo was a victim of the terrorist attacks on 9/11. The owner of the photo, Fred Mahe, was actually not one of the two getting married in the photo, but a guest at the wedding. Mahe finally found his lost photo after Keefe’s 13-year search largely because of tweets by celebrities like Blake Shelton and an initial push by the Boston-based blog Universal Hub.

Keefe, after pouring herself into bringing the 9/11 wedding photo back to its rightful owner, was ecstatic to find out that the a match had finally been made. She hasn’t stopped posting joy-filled messages since the owner was found.

Keefe had been trying to find the 9/11 wedding photo’s owner through her personal Twitter since a friend passed it off to her shortly after 9/11.

“Do something good with her it,” her friend told her — and that was when Keefe decided to find way to get it back home.

While she had relentlessly posted the photo every month on the 11th, she had never gotten close to finding the real owner of the lost picture. Keefe explained to Mashable why she felt so connected to reuniting the photo and its subjects.

“It’s a beautiful, joyful moment captured in time and it was such a contrast to what I saw at Ground Zero, which was still burning when I was there. So, if it had a relationship to 9/11, I wanted to keep it safe until I could return it to its owner. There’s so much beauty and happiness in the photo that I just felt committed to the task.”

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