Victims: A Portrait of America

Among those confirmed dead in yesterday's terrorist attacks was the Rev. Mychal Judge, 68, chaplain of the New York City Fire Department. Judge was a widely known Franciscan friar whose busy schedule sometimes included a White House ceremony one day and ministering to impoverished AIDS patients the next. The child of Irish immigrants who ran a rooming house, Judge became a New York shoeshine boy at age 6 after his father died. At 14, he entered the Franciscan seminary. Judge was particularly known for his work with AIDS patients. "His death consecrated what his life had built," said Brother Denis Clark of St. Francis, who last saw Judge at morning prayers yesterday. "He was always dedicated to others and available to anyone who needed him."

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