“Most people still do not understand what happened to us back then”
The attacks of September 11, 2001 claimed almost 3,000 deaths. How are New Yorkers doing today? Visiting a vulnerable city.
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–A bright Tuesday morning in New York: View on September 11, 2001 from the Hudson River towards the World Trade Center after the two towers collapsed.
Photo: Hubert Michael Boesl (Keystone)
Desperate, Dan McNally said goodbye to the five other officers. And from life. He knew what the click meant from the second tower of the World Trade Center. That was exactly what it had sounded like before the first skyscraper collapsed. Seconds later, the second collapsed – and buried the rescue workers under itself.
Nothing. McNally felt nothing, didn’t know whether he was dead or alive. Even today he looks a little incredulous that, as a healthy 64-year-old, he was able to drive to his office in Manhattan with his Triumph and now tells how he survived the terrorist attacks of 9/11 twenty years ago. He finds it hard to understand that he got away with it. Unlike half of his group of six. Unlike a friend at the Cantor Fitzgerald finance company. Two thirds of its almost 1,000 employees lost their lives. “His entire wedding party was dead,” says McNally.
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