Did anyone here know a 9/11 victim?

[Ardent15]

Just wondering.

[Ohio Joe]

1. Yes, I knew several - nt

[HamdenRice]

2. My former employer was in the WTC

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.

[WoodrowFan]

3. yes. (NT)

[RedSock]

4. probably

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)?

[flyarm]

5. I knew several victims . eom

[onehandle]

6. A work associate. She was a Brit. I met her once, and was on several conference calls with her.

The company I was with at the time lost her and two others that were with her.

[TomClash]

7. Many

Three childhood friends, four business acquaintances, several firemen from my neighborhood.

Plus I was there. What a fun day. :(