"Pete saw things that I couldn't understand as a civilian, only his brothers in blue could,"
"I thought the world was ending and Pete said, 'I have to go to work,' and then I didn't see him for days,"
"That's what he wanted to do and everything he did was 100% from the heart."
"It made him want to coach adaptive hockey."
Peter Gianatiempo, 61, served 26 years with the NYPD, including 19 years in the Organized Crime Control Bureau, and responded to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. He battled post-traumatic stress after repeatedly running toward danger that day. He retired in 2014 and spent retirement working security while coaching youth hockey, including the New York Junior Rangers and an adaptive hockey league in Connecticut. His son's work in therapeutic recreation inspired his advocacy and coaching for players with disabilities. Gianatiempo died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home days before he was to return to coaching, leaving family and players grieving.
Read at New York Post
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