I'll never forget holding her in my lap trying to explain how her daddy fit in that 'little' box.
In mid May, 2001, my son and I saw the Trade Towers driving north past the Meadowlands on our way to my home in upstate NY for my father's funeral. We took a day trip to NYC while there and saw them from the Battery and the Street. We saw them from Liberty and Ellis Islands. We saw the on 9.11 on the news falling 5000 miles away. We remember; we will never forget!
We lost more than 3000 on 9.11. But NYFD and NYPD and unknown EMTs saved so many more at great cost to themselves.
There were almost 50,000 people in the WTC on any normal day.
This is the number they were trying to kill. That they failed so massively should not lessen the retribution they have deserved.
I couldn't go to look at the wreckage. I just couldn't.
My dad worked two blocks away from the Twin Towers. He saw the plane hit as he walked across the bridge surrounded by masses of people. And From the bridge he saw the two towers come crumbling down.
My mom who also works in the city, saw the smoke outside the windows of her building.
It was terribly frightening.
And my mother went to work the very next day. She felt every American that could, should go to work. Just to show them that did this to us, that we would not falter.
I'll never forget holding her in my lap trying to explain how her daddy fit in that 'little' box.