by jack | Sep 28, 2021 | 911, Military
Sitting at the conference table for her morning meeting, Lt. Col. Marilyn Wills suddenly found herself being thrown across the room to the floor. “I was sitting there complaining to myself that, ‘This meeting sure is long,’ ” she later said....
by jack | Sep 23, 2021 | 911, Police Officers
Known throughout his community as a mentor and leader, Ramon Suarez volunteered as a track coach at St. Matthias Middle School, where his daughter, nine-year-old Jillian Suarez was a student. Officer Suarez and his partner were stationed at the Delancey Street F-train...
by jack | Sep 20, 2021 | 911, Police Officers
Officer Moira Smith’s first assignment with the NYPD was to patrol the subways. Early one morning in August, 1991, she was just getting off an 8 hour shift when she heard the crash and groan of twisting metal in the subway below. She ran through Union Square...
by jack | Sep 15, 2021 | 911, Citizen Heroes, Uncategorized
27-year-old Jason Thomas was dropping off his daughter to his mother in Long Island when he heard that planes had hit the twin towers. “Someone needed help. It didn’t matter who. I didn’t even have a plan. But I have all this training as a Marine, and all I could...
by jack | Sep 11, 2021 | 911, Military, Uncategorized
Army Captain Lincoln Lebner was probably the first person to rush in and help the victims of the 911 attack on the Pentagon. Captain Leibner was not scheduled to come in to work at his office in the Pentagon until later that day, but when he saw the second plane hit...
by jack | Sep 7, 2021 | 911, Fire Fighters
“I’M NOT LEAVING MY MEN”. On September 11, 2001, Peter James Ganci Jr. had 33 years with the FDNY. He was the FDNY Chief of Department, the highest ranking uniformed fire officer in the department. Immediately after the North Tower was hit at 8:46...
