This Blew Me Away!
By DianneN
@DianneN (246750)
United States
October 9, 2019 2:06pm CST
I’m fasting for our high holy day, Yom Kippur. Being weak and tired, I looked up some information on Wikipedia for the firm where our older son works in their main office in New York City as Senior Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer in their legal department.
He wasn’t working at this firm during 9/11, but I was blown away what I read on Wikipedia!
“At the time of the 2001 September 11 attacks in the United States, the corporation held offices on eight floors, 93 to 100, of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. When American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the building, its offices spanned the entire impact zone, floors 93 to 99. Everybody present in the company's offices on the day of the attack died as all stairwells at impact zone were destroyed or blocked by the crash; the firm lost 295 employees and 66 contractors”.
I’m not sure if he knows this.
~Photo of his building courtesy of Wikipedia~
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31 responses
@LindaOHio (156159)
• United States
9 Oct 19
That's horrible. My heart breaks for those families and friends of the deceased. He probably does know about this; but what a shock!
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@LindaOHio (156159)
• United States
9 Oct 19
@DianneN Good. Hope you can make it until dinner time. Maybe lie down for a while?
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@DianneN (246750)
• United States
9 Oct 19
@LindaOHio I’m in bed resting. At least I don’t have my usual headache. lol
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@WorDazza (15833)
• Manchester, England
9 Oct 19
I remember watching this unfold via internet news sites. There was no work done that day.
I bet there are many people with stories of how they were lucky not to have been involved and tragically many who wouldn't have normally been there but for some reason out of the ordinary were there.
It's still heartbreaking to think of all those lives pointlessly lost even though it was quite some time ago.
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@Nakitakona (56302)
• Philippines
10 Oct 19
That's terrible. That's gruesome act of terrorism.
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@DianneN (246750)
• United States
11 Oct 19
@Nakitakona Not quite the Holocaust, but very close.
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@Nakitakona (56302)
• Philippines
11 Oct 19
@DianneN I know but this one is terrible. It seems to be next to the holocaust.
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@snowy22315 (169946)
• United States
9 Oct 19
I bet he knew about it, but didn't want to upset you with the knowledge. My son works in DC, a fact that doesn't especially thrill me.
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
10 Oct 19
that is so so scary isn't it. You must be worrying every day and have to just keep telling yourself it won't happen in the same place again. 
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@LeaPea2417 (36438)
• Toccoa, Georgia
10 Oct 19
Wow, that is so sad. It is so good he was not working there then!
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@GreatMartin (23677)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
10 Oct 19
I'm sure he does--they still talk and give all the facts and figures all over Manhattan, which in a way, is good!
Regarding fasting for Yom Kippur I wish I was a kid again when my mom sent me and my brother to the movies where we could get popcorn and candy and the neighbors wouldn't know---except their kids were there also!
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@Marilynda1225 (79708)
• United States
9 Oct 19
Being a New Yorker the impact of 9/11 was horrific. That's interesting information regarding the company your son works for. Certainly glad he wasn't there on 9/11
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@Marilynda1225 (79708)
• United States
10 Oct 19
@DianneN my daughter worked in Manhattan at the time and the day before she was there for a meeting. She was back in her office mid-town on 9/11 but had to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge to get out of the city. It certainly was a horrible day for all of us and I can still get emotional when I think about it.
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
10 Oct 19
How very very sad. I Hope that it NEVER EVER happens again! It is imprinted on my memory as if it were yesterday.
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
12 Oct 19
@DianneN How could we ever forget it Dianne. I guess to our generation it is permanently imprinted on our memories! Life is so precious!
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@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
10 Oct 19
Wow! I bet he doesn`t know either.
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@acelawrites (19273)
• Philippines
9 Oct 19
He was saved; good he wasn't there when that horrible thing happened. Do you drink water while fasting for Yom Kippur?
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@DianneN (246750)
• United States
9 Oct 19
Thank goodness, although he started his career the day before and saw the first plane hit from the building he was in.
No water, no coffee, no nothing. We will break the fast in a few minutes when our guests arrive. I can’t wait. I’m starving!
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@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
9 Oct 19
Rather chilling to learn.
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