9/11 Commemorative Postage Stamp
Netlore Archive: Emailed image is purportedly the artwork for a new stamp issued by the U.S. Postal Service to commemorate 9/11
Description: Email hoax
Circulating since: 2002
Status: False
Email example contributed by Hotmail user, 11 Sep 2002:
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Here is the newest stamp to be issued in September. It's awesome... take a look. READ AND RETURN May today there be peace within you. May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be. "I believe that friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly." Just send this to (4) people and see what happens on the fourth day. Do not break this, please. 
Artwork by Danny Hahlbohm All rights reserved by the artist |
Comments: The above image has circulated via email since mid-2002 along with the claim that it depicts a 9/11 commemorative stamp issued by the U.S. Postal Service -- but no such stamp exists.
In June 2003 the USPS issued a fundraising stamp called "The Heroes of 2001," which depicts firefighters raising an American flag in the wreckage of the World Trade Center towers. It remains the only U.S. postage stamp released thus far to commemorate the events of September 11, 2001.
The emailed artwork, which has also been reproduced on various Websites under the title "Forever ... in God's Hands," was created by artist Danny Hahlbohm, who calls it, simply, "In God's Hands."
Sources and further reading:
New Fundraising Stamp Honoring Heroes of 9/11
U.S. Postal Service press release, 7 June 2002Inspired-Art
Website of artist Danny Hahlbohm
Last updated: 09/02/03
