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I got chills reading all those names... a lot of firefighters and police officers and Port Authority police, as well as many civilians from Long Island, NY, where I live were killed on that tragic day........
We have streets in many of our local towns that were re-named after the brave heroes that perished on that fateful day....
A father and son from Lindenhurst were members of the FDNY and BOTH perished that day...a street down the block from where I live is renamed "ANGELINI AVENUE".........
There are so many local stories of loss here in NY...our skyline was forever changed on that terrible day...
We all loved the beautiful sight of those glorious TWIN TOWERS...I remember when they were being built and after they were done...
They were MAJESTIC and SPECTACULAR....now there is an empty spot on the horizon where every time any New Yorker who travels to the city sees a spot where our lives were forever changed....
Let us NEVER FORGET.........I live close enough to NYC that I could smell the burning ashes of those towers for DAYS afterward...I had nightmares for years that planes were crashing into my house.............
My husband used to go to meetings in those buildings quite frequently and I remember the horror and fear of watching the event LIVE on TV and not being able to reach him, as all phone and cell phone service was gone....thankfully he was at his regular office and ran to the LIRR all the way from Brooklyn across the bridge on foot to catch the train back home..........
Sorry for such a long post, folks, just wanted to give people in other parts of the country my experience of that day...
MAY GOD BLESS ALL WHO SERVE AND PROTECT THIS COUNTRY...
