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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDid you know anyone that died in the 9/11 attacks?
A brother of a friend died on Flight 11.
It's something we never talked about.
I heard his name on the roll call of people today.
My hair stood on end.
My gmail lit up and jeesh...
duhneece
(4,105 posts)United Airlines Flight 175: https://www.alamogordonews.com/story/community/2021/09/11/city-declares-sept-11-2021-al-marchand-day/8256226002/
sakabatou
(42,083 posts)viva la
(3,227 posts)He was a military officer married to someone who grew up in my church. I met him, shook hands, a couple times. He was... well, no one should die young. But he was truly someone who should have grown to old age, doing good all the way.
Hekate
(90,191 posts)I live in SoCal, but my sis lived in Mass. Both her kids had friends whose grandmas were on 2 of the 4 flights.
My bf and her husband worked in DC and felt the incredible impact of the plane hitting the Pentagon.
My cousins husband was an admiral on assignment back at the Pentagon. He spent God knows how long on stretcher-duty, pulling people out.
LakeArenal
(28,729 posts)rsdsharp
(9,038 posts)I didnt know her well. She was in the class ahead of me in law school. She was intelligent, beautiful, and very sweet. I have a clear memory of her sitting on a table in the law review office talking to people.
Tetrachloride
(7,728 posts)Not the admiral mentioned above.
Danmel
(4,892 posts)One was Jeffrey Schreir, the son of friends of my parents. He had a developmental disability and worked in the mailroom at Cantor Fitzgerald.
The other was Terry Farrell who was a firefighter in NYC and a volunteer firefighter in our Long Island community. He was a great guy.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/GMA/story%3fid=126570&page=1
I have since met people who lost family members on 9-12
msongs
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Runningdawg
(4,494 posts)carpetbagger
(4,383 posts)A few people I had crossed paths with were on the planes. My aunt had a kid who worked for her at her video store for years, knew him well, grew up and joined the NYFD. My father's cousin got cancer, he worked for an NGO and was on the scene from midday on 9/11 for months after.
A friend of 20 years was killed in the North Tower of the World Trade Center. I didn't find out until months later.
Ms. Toad
(33,915 posts)He has not died yet, but the health problems he acquired that day have nearly killed him several times already so it is only a matter of time.
Skittles
(152,964 posts)as did most of us on DU
Barbara Olson
Thtwudbeme
(7,737 posts)I couldn't stand that twit. Hate that she died, but she was just one of those RW talking heads that I found annoying.
Skittles
(152,964 posts)I see he married a Democrat, so he at least evolved.
Thtwudbeme
(7,737 posts)ever. He helped bring this country down to what it is today. I have no idea why a Dem married him.
Scrivener7
(50,774 posts)And a couple who worked in the rubble who since died of related issues.
tavernier
(12,322 posts)My girlfriend worked at Goldman Sachs and her neighbor worked at Cantor Fitzgerald. They were getting on the subway to head to that end of town and she realized that she was out of tokens and told her friend to go ahead because there was quite a line, but he insisted on waiting with her. He said no one would mind if he was a little late for work. That time event saved his life.
yardwork
(61,417 posts)COL Mustard
(5,783 posts)I have a photo collage of them to help me remember. I got to go home to my family that night.
I cant watch any of the coverage anymore. Its too difficult. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
lisa58
(5,754 posts)brush
(53,474 posts)He was cop who rush there. My wife's cousin worked in one of the towers.
Bev54
(9,963 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,303 posts)Yonnie3
(17,376 posts)Bob Hayes of Netstal Machinery. I met him in 1987 as we were doing a factory start up of a Compact Disc pressing facility in Virginia. Over the next the next decade our factory moved on to other manufacturer's equipment to manufacture DVDs but kept running the original CD lines. He moved up in his company to other positions.
I quote a bit of his obituary:
The Man With the Surfboard
Robert Hayes sported a year-round tan because almost everywhere he went, he also sported his surfboard. It did not matter whether he was headed for business or pleasure.
In fact, his wife, Debbie Hayes, said it was not uncommon to see him walking through Logan International Airport in Boston in a business suit with a briefcase in one hand and his black-and-white surfboard in the other.
"It was kind of funny to see him," she remembered.
It was at Logan Airport that she saw him for the first time, actually, although she did not think he was so much funny-looking as cute, she said.
It was 1989 and he had missed his flight. She was the Trans World Airlines customer service agent who had the pleasure of re- booking him. She said that after he returned from his trip, he began to call her at the ticket counter and it had nothing to do with air travel.
----snip----
https://obits.masslive.com/us/obituaries/masslive/name/robert-hayes-obituary?pid=91802
An industry announcement of his death:
https://www.plasticsnews.com/article/20010921/OPINION03/309219971/remembering-netstal-s-bob-hayes
Golden Raisin
(4,600 posts)moved to Cantor Fitzgerald. He and his wife were expecting their first child. It's hard for me to realize that that baby is now 20.
yardwork
(61,417 posts)MANative
(4,105 posts)He worked in the Pentagon and was supposed to be on the flight that left out of D.C. but had to stay behind for a last minute meeting at PAX River NAS. Lost four of his direct reports on the plane and five colleagues from his team in the Pentagon.
He passed a couple of years ago after complications from back surgery at age 53.
MiniMe
(21,676 posts)I know of several people who worked at the Pentagon. My cousin had a coworker who was in New York at the Windows on the world restaurant.
The wife of my wifes brother was in the South Tower and perished. She had already made it to safety to the Lobby, but was last seen getting back into an elevator to go back up to help some of her office colleagues.
malaise
(267,823 posts)Michael was under 30 - he thought every dream had come true when he was hired by an international financial company in one of the Towers. His dad died from a heart attack less than two years later.
jpak
(41,742 posts)I was in panic attack mode.
My sister worked for Jackie Onassis there. (Never met her). But it was way up on one of the towers.
She took me to the top one time.
Then I realized that she hadn't worked there for 10 years.
Whew.
Then I panicked about my cousin, who was a tour guide, that took Italian tourists there. My aunt called her, and told her what was happening. She saw the second plane hit and had her apt smothered by the debris cloud. She was safe.
My other cousin, that lived in Manhattan, was surfing at Montauk and was safe.
My BIL had to walk out of lower Manhattan with no communication with my sister for 10 hours.
After that, he carried a pair of walking shoes, food and water, and a claw hammer to break out windows and open elevator doors.
Ugh
malaise
(267,823 posts)That must have been terrifying
jpak
(41,742 posts)Yup
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JustAnotherGen
(31,683 posts)Backseat Driver
(4,339 posts)whatever the relationship, that person was a flight attendant who had switched flights with another attendant on the plane destined for the field in PA. Another co-worker's daughter lived in Manhattan.
I'll never forget that I was a messenger who went to work that day with the news and that we needed to turn on the office television. We watched the terror of the towers falling like fountains and watched the news re the Pentagon attack and PA flights, the latter which had also wandered around in the sky over our state not so very far away from our location.
Most, the sunny and crystal blue morning sky, soon without the white noise of any planes at all.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)I went out on a company call to visit some financial institutions in the World Trade Center in '99 and still have several of their business cards with World Trade Center addresses on it. As I recall, they were fairly high up in the tower and many probably didn't make it.
I never checked the names on the cards against the official lists, though. Maybe some got out or didn't come into work that day. Our contact was too brief to bother checking.
mopinko
(69,806 posts)worked for cboe here in chicago, but they had an office in the tower. not sure how many.
he was at a conference in toronto that day. one of his coworkers called me, because he thought he might be there.