Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

A great friend to everyone she came in contact with, my late wife’s best friend. A mentor to my son at a time he most needed one. She was always fun to be around. She was and a very brave, generous and compassionate person. It was my great privilege to have known her for many years. God bless her and her husband.

John Ward
Friend

September 12, 2014

You all are amazing to leave these comments.
I am her next door neighbor who was like a daughter to her.
I love and miss you so much Captain Kathy Mazza..
You are an amazing person and I miss you everyday.

Thank you to all the heros that put there life on the line that day.

Amanda Bornstein

love forever

Amanda Bornstein
daughter

March 10, 2014

Hello I am a grade 10 student from Alberta Canada who has chosen this brave women to do a project on what a hero really is. I a'm trying to find more information on Kathy to present to our class

Please send information if willing to

Dustin Marshall
Memorial composite high school

October 30, 2013

Thinking of you today, as I do every year today.

Officer Elizabeth Wareing
Seattle Police

September 11, 2013

Dear Capt.Mazza,

As a seriously injured civilian I am writing to you today with a flood of emotions as our Country and City once again take a moment to pause, remember & relfect on this 9/11 Anniversary and its Heros. While every 9/11 Anniversary has always held special meaning to me & my family, I am honored and grateful to have found your reflection page.

While seeing your picture on this site did bring back some of the more powerful emotions of that day, I can now say for sure that you were in fact the "ponytail" PAPD Officer who assisted in carrying me back up to Fulton Street from a garage after the first WTC Tower-(South) had collapsed.

I sustained a very serious foot/ankle injury while running from the debris of 2WTC where I was employed. I vividly recall questioning you about my concerns that you would not be "strong enough" to join arms with another rescuer to assist in carrying me back up to the stairs-street level.

You quickly assured me "it would not be a problem, because tonight I was going home to my family."

Upon returning to the street level, you continued in assisting to carry me to a Chase Bank branch one block away.There I was laid down on the floor & other standing survivor's were "loudly" reminded by you to "not kick or step on the injured gentleman on the floor"

Before I realized it you were back out the door of the bank, along with the firefighter to once again assist others.

I am honored and blessed to call you my "personal hero" as a result of what you did for me, my wife, & my daughter who that day was just starting kindergarten. I salute you as someone who gave of herself so totally & so unselfishly to me as a survivor.

May God Bless you & keep you in his hands always & may he especially today continue to watch over your family, giving them his "special strength." It was unique physical strength that you exhibited in my rescue. I know I was very fortunate to cross paths with a unique/special hero twelve years ago today.

Tim F.
Rescued Civilian/Survivor-9/11/13

September 11, 2013

Every year I visit this site and give thanks to God for your bravery and concern for the people in the WTC. I've read police witness statements. They say, to a person, that you ran into the building with no hesitation and raced up the stairs to assist anyone you could. I still wear the dog tag with your name on it and am proud to tell your story to anyone who asks about it. May God continue to bless your husband and family

Chaplain Kathy Corbett-Welch
MdTAP

September 11, 2013

I grew up down the road from your mother's house. Our street now bears the honorarium of "N. Suffolk Avenue // CAPT Kathy Mazza Way".

Rest in peace and God Bless you.

Bear, Intel Analyst
DOJ

May 30, 2013

Rest in Peace, Captain Mazza, and I would like to compliment you for a good use of a firearm. Well done.

Richard Rabinowitz, Bloustein Student
Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy

February 2, 2013

You as always are remembered today

Pat Van Den Berghe
Civilian, Manchester, NH

September 11, 2012

Iwear a dog tag with your name, and the names of Moira Smith and Yamel Merino proudly, as I have done every day. Every time I take it off or put it on I say a prayer for you, your husband and extended family. I pray God holds you all in His eternal light

Chaplain Kathy Corbett-Welch
MdTAP

September 11, 2012

I was in NY on 13 of April and I visited 11 September Memorial:suddendly my look was catched from her name 'cause the name of my grandmother was Caterina Mazza.
I felt immediatly a link with her and in that moment I choosed to bring her photo and her memory forever with me.

Caterina Cosco (from Milano - Italy)

CATERINA COSCO

May 27, 2012

I proudly wear a dog tag with Capt Mazza's name, Officer Moira Smith and EMT Yemal Merino. You all gave your lives for hundreds of people. Capt Mazza was seen shooting out windows in the WTC so that people could escape. God holds you in Her hands. God bless your family and friends. At this Thanksgiving, as I have for the past 10 yrs, I give thanks for your life.

Chaplain Kathy Corbett-Welch
MdTAP, Maryland

November 22, 2011

I've been thinking of you and your friends and family today. Rest in peace, and peace to those who love you.

Officer Elizabeth Post
Lynnwood, WA Police

September 12, 2011

Forever a Friend - Forever a Hero !

Capt.Scott Skellington
MNRR Fire/EMS Seymour,CT Fire/EMS

September 11, 2011

Kathy, as your friend growing up on Long Island I miss you, but I honor you as a hero !

Capt.Scott Skellington
MNRR Fire/EMS Seymour,Ct Fire/EMS

September 11, 2011

I miss you everyday more and more....How you would laugh when you came into the store for your coffee..The day you came in and told me how you just chased down a van that was stealing your neighbors kids bike...and caught them. When you met Chris, that you were leaving nursing for The Port Authority. When Freddy came into store to tell me they found you and your men and the woman you all were helping that day God chose You and all the people who became Angels that Day... passing your Mom and Dads house with your car still in driveway. I miss you my friend....Much Love Still fills me with every memory I have of you and I.....rest easy My Friend Our Hero..

Anita Keane
Civilian/ Friend

September 6, 2011

I used to work in JFK at a fruit and nut stand called TheGrove. I remember meeting Kathy then, and she gave me a JFK pin to wear on my jacket. I didn't realize it until very recently that it was actually her that gave me the pin, the memory suddenly became very clear after reading about the upcoming 10 year anniversary this year.
Thank you Kathy, for giving me this pin, and I will remember your bravery and sacrifice always. God Bless all who perished that horrible day.

Kim Shelley - Civilian
Acquaintance

July 24, 2011

You made the ultimate sacrifice that dreadful September morning and saved so many. I remember seeing your husband walk into the precinct after the attack and thinking that you must be OK because Chris was at work. We later learned of your heroic actions. Most don't know that you are responsible for automatic electronic defibrillators being at every post authority facility. All your deeds have meant so much. Rest in peace Kathy.

Det. Brendan Quigley (ret)
NYPD

March 10, 2011

Kathy,

Many can say how brave you were in your final act, but your friends can say how wonderful you were everyday. How we miss you and how we love you.

You will never be far from our thoughts.

Anonymous

December 15, 2009

OH HOW I MISS YOU!! THAT PONYTAIL SWINGING AS YOU RUSH BY.HOW WE WOULD LAUGH AT EVERYONE ! THE COFFEE RUSH!! YES GIRL WE MISS YOU!!! I MISS THAT INFECTIOUS LAUGH THAT WOULD BE AS LOAD AS MINE, AS WE BOTH COULDN'T HOLD IT IN NO MORE. YES MY FRIEND, I DRINK COFFEE NOW, BUT NOT WITH YOU.THIS WORLD IS SO MUCH SMALLER WITHOUT YOU.BUT YOUR LOOKING OUT FROM ABOVE, THANK YOU MY FRIEND

Anita
old friend

April 19, 2009

The wicked flee where no man pursueth, but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Proverbs 28:1

My thoughts and prayers are with you and your friends and family. May God bless and keep them. God bless you.

THANK YOU SO MUCH, FOR HELPIPNG PROTECT OUR COUNTRY!!!!

Friend of Off. Kris Fairbanks RIP 9-20-08

K.L.

March 12, 2009

THANK YOU.

franck

September 24, 2008

Captain Mazza you are a hero. It has been seven years since the end of your watch. All of you are still remembered. It is still hard to believe the terrorist attacks occurred. May God continue to bless all of you who gave the supreme sacrifice that day. Rest in peace my sister.

State Constable J.L. Green
S.C. State Constables

September 11, 2008

Her heroic actions no doubt saved many lives that day, & we will never forget her devotion to duty and selfless sacrifice.
God Bless You and may you rest in peace.

Police Officer (Ret.) Michael J Marsala
Nassau County Police Department

May 13, 2008

Dear Captain Mazza:

You are a true HERO. And the finest example of what it means to be a Law Enforcement Officer & human being. Without a thought you gave your life so many others could live. Your courage and bravery are examples to us all of how to live our lives. "There is no grester love than that of a person to lay down their life for another." I am humbled by you & I pray for you and all the others that were taken so tragicly that day. May God bless you & please watch over all of us still here Blue Angel from your heavenly post.

Liz
Civillian

April 15, 2008