In the terrorist attacks of September 11, Fiduciary Trust lost 86 of its employees, as well as one employee from our parent company Franklin Templeton and other business partners who were in our offices that day. We have emerged from 9-11 with a renewed sense of purpose, yet we live with the memories of the colleagues and friends we lost. Fiduciary Trust's culture as a family-oriented firm also sustained us through that period of great sadness and upheaval.
Our employees, supported by clients, business partners, and families of the victims responded with strength, unity, spirit and courage to the human loss, emotional turmoil and dislocation of this tragedy. In fact, these four themes are the titles for a set of framed posters that hang in our office today, containing hundreds of signatures and messages of support from Franklin Templeton's employees across the country.
In the months following September 11, Fiduciary Trust and Franklin Templeton received hundreds of letters, poems, photos, keepsakes, and messages of support and reflection from employees, families of the victims, clients, business partners and members of the community, in the U.S. and overseas. Our 9-11 experience has also been chronicled in other forms, including a memorial booklet produced for Fiduciary's Interfaith Memorial Service at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, held in October 2001 to honor the memories of those lost.
To preserve these materials for current and future generations, to document their place in Fiduciary Trust and Franklin Templeton history, and to share them with you, we have created this Website—which is both a chronicle of our experience and an archive containing some of the many 9-11 related items we've received. Additional material will be added to the site in the months ahead, and we would welcome contributions of letters, keepsakes or other material from employees, families, clients and friends.
Our hope is that this web site archive can, in some small way, help us to better understand and remember the events of September 11.
Sincerely
Anne Tatlock
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
