Ardent15
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Mon Feb-02-09 10:09 PM
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Did anyone here know a 9/11 victim? |
Ohio Joe
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Tue Feb-03-09 08:25 AM
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1. Yes, I knew several - nt |
HamdenRice
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Tue Feb-03-09 08:28 AM
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2. My former employer was in the WTC |
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Edited on Tue Feb-03-09 08:30 AM by HamdenRice
It's a bit of a complicated story, but when I worked in the financial sector, I worked for a firm in mid town. When I went into the non-profit sector a few years before 9/11, I started working in lower Manhattan and was in the area the day of the attacks. Then my old company, where I still had friends, merged with another company and moved from mid-town to the WTC just 4 months before 9/11. Their offices were destroyed in the collapsed tower.
On 9/11 and for a few days after, I thought that lots of friends had died, but a few days later their website reported that only one staff member had died, someone I didn't know because that person had come from the firm my old firm had merged with.
Anyway, I don't know anyone who died on 9/11. I do know a former ems worker who worked the pile, and died just a month or so ago of lung disease in his early 30s, but the city refused to recognize that his lung disease was caused by exposure.
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Thu Feb-05-09 01:54 PM
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Edited on Thu Feb-05-09 01:57 PM by RedSock
I worked for three years on the 57th floor of WTC 1. I left that job in November 1998. (I worked Wednesday-Friday, so I would have been home that day.)
Some of my co-workers had been there for the 1993 bombing, so I assume some of them were there in 2001. However, I was not in touch with anyone from that job after I left, so I cannot say for sure. I learned later that only 1 of the 600 employees at that law firm died -- it was a woman whose name I did not recognize.
Hamden: You mention a merger and one death. Would the company be Sidley Austin Brown & Wood (which was just B&W when I was there)?
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Mon Feb-16-09 12:31 AM
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5. I knew several victims . eom |
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Thu Feb-19-09 01:15 PM
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6. A work associate. She was a Brit. I met her once, and was on several conference calls with her. |
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The company I was with at the time lost her and two others that were with her.
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Thu Feb-19-09 03:38 PM
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Three childhood friends, four business acquaintances, several firemen from my neighborhood.
Plus I was there. What a fun day. :(
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