Posted by
Saint Michael on Wednesday, September 13, 2006 11:54:36 AM
***In Tribute to***
Mark D. Hindy
Mark David Hindy, 28, was 6 feet 4 inches, 250 pounds. His niece Olivia, 22 months old, is 2 feet 11 inches and weighs 30 pounds. That's a big difference -- a 3-foot, 5-inch, 220-pound difference, to be exact -- but somehow a bond had grown between them when she was even smaller.
"His hand was the size of her, but you could see the gentleness of his big hand supporting her back when he held her," said Ginny Hindy, Mr. Hindy's mother.
Olivia smiled at him when she was 6 months old -- before she had smiled at anyone else. When the family watched television, Olivia always crawled to Mr. Hindy's lap instead of her father's.
"She felt very secure with Mark," Ms. Hindy said.
Greg Hindy, Mr. Hindy's brother and Olivia's father, said that Olivia clearly missed her favorite uncle after the attacks destroyed the offices of Cantor Fitzgerald, where he worked.
"After 9/11, she would ask for Mark. 'Markie, hug, Markie, kiss,' she would say," he said. "Then I would say, 'Hug Daddy. Mark will hug you through Daddy.' Now she points to his picture, and says 'Markie, angel.' "
Because of the pair's special relationship, the Hindys have created the Mark Hindy Charitable Foundation to help, among other things, fight diseases that afflict children.
Profile published in THE NEW YORK TIMES on November 5, 2001.
![[Mark D. Hindy]](http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/images/full-size/hindy.mark.jpg)
Here are some of the kind words that others have said about Mark since his tragic death on Sept 11.
From: Adam Tosto
Date: 05/10/2006
Message: Mark was my 1st cousin and more then just that he was my big brother and idol. I modeled my life after him and I miss him every day o fmy life. I stumbled upon this site looking him up on google and I just wanted to say that all the victims along with Mark will never be forgotten and I pray that this tragedy never occurs again.
From: Julianna Tosto
Date: 08/01/2006
Message: Mark was one of my cousins. i never knew him but, i am very upset that this tradgedy occured and he was killed. i think about him and what happened every day.We will never forget what happened.
In memory of one the most beautiful souls I have ever had the privilege of knowing.
Carey Oldfield, friend