Remembering 9/11 - 20th Anniversary

REMEMBERING 9.11 ~ 20TH ANNIVERSARY

A Special Publication of The Daily Star Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021

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They seven minutes before it fell.

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A devastated country vowed to “Never Forget.”

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11, when United Airlines Flight 93 Level A HAZMAT suits. morning, 35 of the five hijackers are on board.

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I wasn’t ready to go home, Nearly 3,000 people died in the 9/11 terror attacks, but the toll continues to mount as first responders and survivors suffer his hand, so his job was Bush learns a second has hot and crowded and there were these announcements being made but off the after aplane delay crewtakes storm cockpit.

Airlines 11American into floors 93minthrough 99 of He saw that members of PENTAGON to identify body parts and but I didn’t have a choice.” you couldn’t hear what was being said,” Peskin recalled.

“I was at the from and succumb to a variety of WTC-related diseases. hit the towers.

Twenty-five due to routine traffic. Seven TERRY BUTLER | SHANKSVILLE, PA. 1 World Trade Center (North Flight 77, en route to his battalion were wearing place them in bags, which 45th floor when the second plane hit our building.

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espite a 20year career with the Oneonta Fire Department, including 19 as its chief, Bob Barnes remembers one day of his decades-long tenure “like it was yesterday.” Barnes retired in 2009.

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“I happened to be at home the morning of Sept. 11 and I got a call right after the first plane hit,” Barnes, 69, said.

“I got a call from Captain (Len) Carson … and he said, ‘What are you doing?

Are you watching TV? Turn it on.’ He said, ‘They’ve got live pictures and it’s a mess.’ By the time I got squared away and turned on the television, I watched the second plane come into the second tower, so that changed my entire day immediately. “(Watching) the pancake collapse of the second tower — I teach technical rescue, so that’s exactly what happened — you knew there were no survivors when that took place.”

Barnes said, though the department had ties to the city, he collaborated locally and immediately to ensure Oneonta’s emergency preparedness.

“Mayor (Kim) Muller was on the phone

and wanted me to come to City Hall,” he said. “She’d been in contact with the governor’s office — they’d contacted anybody that had water systems or anything that could’ve been (the target of) a terror attack. I got to City Hall … and the mayor brought in the water superintendent and the DPW superintendent and of course the police chiefs, so we had the whole team together from the city and started to make contingency plans, as well as provide protection. Something that really stands out in my mind is the professionalism and insight that Mayor Muller had.

“At that time in my career at the firehouse, there were probably five or six of us members of Oneonta that were either teaching at the state fire academy and other places and/or traveling to New York City to be with firefighters down there,” Barnes continued. “So, on the back side of the whole thing, several of my best friends were headed to New York, down to the rescue station. Eventually, two days into the thing, we sent three launch crews and they were down there for quite a while. And one of our captains, Captain DiMartin, was down there and we had to reel him in and get him back to Oneonta.

That took a couple days, because things were so chaotic.”

Though his efforts were localized, Barnes said, he felt the impact of events in New York City personally.

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“I knew 13 fatalities that day,” he said.

“I ended up going to a dozen funerals or so.”

Firefighters’ training, Barnes said, girded them for the task of recovery.

“That’s a very unique group, anyway,” he said. “And it was no mystery, right from the get-go, especially after the second aircraft and then news of all the others, that our nation was being attacked. Nobody was overtly surprised by that; it was just, we had a job to do, and it changed what we were doing considerably for a few days, then it brought us back to a new normal.”

The community’s response, Barnes said, was encouraging.

“The community outpouring was tremendous,” he said. “We had candles and flowers and letters sent to the station and it was pretty remarkable.”

But nationally, Barnes said, the attacks left Americans divided.

“The (worst part) was probably the animosity against the people of Iranian or Arabic descent, and that was widespread,” he said. “I can only imagine what it was like in World War II with the Japanese, but this had to be a lot like that.

That started us down a path of the mess we’re in today.”

“We’re doing things that go right back to what we were doing before,” Barnes continued. “Have we learned from it? No.

“(Watching) the pancake collapse of the second tower — I teach technical rescue, so that’s exactly what happened — you knew there were no survivors when that took place.”

– Bob Barnes

But hopefully we’ve not forgotten what took place and are better prepared for something like that or are taking steps so that it never happens again, but that can’t be guaranteed.

“We worked very hard — Mayor Muller, the chiefs of fire and police — in getting those plans and steps in place so that we have something to fall back to. It’s not preventative — not totally — and I don’t think that such things can be prevented … but hopefully the city and everybody in the state and country is better prepared in their own mind and life to deal with something like that. I know (Oneonta) is better prepared for it, because I spent the last 20 years making sure.”

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hen I first heard about 9/11, I was at work on a checkout cash register at Kmart in the Southside Mall.

There was a TV in the mall. A customer came by and told me what he had seen on that TV. It caused a feeling of fear and horror in me.

For a few years after, any plane that went over made me feel nervous.

Lena K. Hunt, Oneonta

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The TV was on the counter at the nurses’ station for the doctors and nurses to check on the news. When breaking news suddenly was broadcasted, video showed a plane crashing into the towers in New York City. Not much was said, as not much was known.

As I watched I thought of my brothers, one worked in Baltimore at Nist. My other brother was on a plane at that time from Seattle. I had no idea of his itinerary, but believe his destination was Baltimore as the Base company was in Annapolis, Maryland.

We all watched in horror as there was crashing of buildings. Dust and smoke filled the air. Shock and disbelief were most of our thoughts.

I was worried so I went to my office and repeatedly tried calling both of them. About 20 minutes later I was able to get in contact with my brother, as everyone was evacuated from Nist. I was anxious and concerned for my other brother as I had no contact with him. (I had already lost two brothers in 1967 and one in 1977 from motor vehicle accidents.) I was praying for him and everyone affected.

y day started out normal. The weather was warm and sunny. I was working in the orthopedic clinic with Dr. Kim.

How could this happen? One nurse cried out, “My son is in that nightmare!” People who escaped from the buildings were covered in layers of dust, holding on to their cell phones. They quickly moved away from the disaster, guided by rescue workers. Emergency vehicles, lights and sirens on, rushed to the site.

I had several friends who worked in the towers. My thoughts went to them and I wondered how they were.

They all escaped the horror. Some said their alarms didn’t go off and they were late for work. Another said he got stuck in traffic. Thank God they were all safe.

was working at Meadwestvaco in Sidney. I was in the cafeteria and the TV was on and I could not believe my eyes.

The next day he was able to call and let me know he was ok. Afterward, I went down and saw the destruction of the Pentagon. It surely was a humbling experience to see. I pray for all the families affected. I will NEVER FORGET. Vicki Nabinger, Bainbridge

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wenty years ago, I was in the second grade at Schenevus Central School and the PA system had gone on to announce that we were getting out early.

Being young at the time, I didn’t know what had happened and neither did anyone else from my class.

The school bus dropped me off at my grandparents’ house and I remember that my mother and grandparents had given me a huge hug while sobbing. My great-grandmother, who passed away on the same week as 9/11, didn’t know what happened.

My regret is that I saw what happened on the news later in the day while I was supposed to be distracted by reading, homework or something like that, and cried.

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Not unusually for such a fine morning, I was the only one to show, but the instructor and I forged ahead. We heard a plane roar over our heads, and had a brief conversation about jets and skyscrapers never colliding, other than once in the fog during World War Two, and what a miracle that seemed.

Over the radio, we heard two planes had hit the towers and police told us we had to evacuate. We loaded our equipment, closed the manhole and headed for home.

ept. 11 was a gorgeous fall day in New York City, and at 7a.m. I headed downtown for a writing workshop held at University Place and 11th Street.

Soon afterward the phone rang, the instructor’s sister saying planes had hit the World Trade Center. We ran downstairs, where — on University Place — the towers were in plain view, one was belching black smoke, and the seismic gravity of the moment began to sink in, even while people streamed past us — unseeing, oblivious — toward Union Square Station on their morning commute.

We ended the workshop and I spent the next five hours watching the towers fall on various TVs in various storefronts along 14th Street, making my way home to the Upper West Side on foot, while all around me the air had already begun to fill with fine particulate dust from the wreckage. The world had changed.

Marge Miller, New Kingston

y partner and I were working next to the new international arrivals terminal at Kennedy airport, preparing to splice the high-voltage cable feeding the new control tower.

As I left the airport heading for the Whitestone Bridge, smoke was evident as the radio said the towers collapsed.

With the cellphone useless, I made my way home. I got to Morris where Betty worked and she could not believe I was alive because, 2½ weeks prior, I was testing new high voltage equipment in the substation of the North Tower, the first one hit.

Days after, we were called in to power up the Battery Tunnel’s ventilation and lights for trucks hauling debris to Staten Island. Coming out of the tunnel and seeing the towers will never leave my mind. Having worked on the antenna and after the 1996 bombing splicing cable for the Twin Towers, I never imagined I would see them down.

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Local broadcaster was source of information on 9/11

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n Sept. 11, 2001, longtime Oneonta-area radio personality Chuck D’Imperio was ready for a routine morning broadcasting the news.

“September 11, 2001 was a normal day — the weather was stunning and I was doing my morning show,” D’Imperio, 72, said. “At about five minutes D’IMPERIO to 9, as I broadcast, on the other side of the glass window … was our news director, Jeff Bishop, so we could see each other. In the newsroom was a television set; I could not see it, but he did. It was on CNN, and it just stayed on mute all day long. I saw (Jeff) put his headphones on and stare at me like he was ready for me to introduce him and, all of a sudden, I saw him look up and his eyes went wide. That was when the first plane hit.

“We went into the news, that lasted about five minutes, then I went into a song and ran into the newsroom,” he continued. “At that point, the other two DJs on WSRK, Leslie Anne (Parmerter) and Doug Decker, came running in, then the whole staff. We all stood there and watched in horror and shock as this unfolded in New York City.”

D’Imperio, a Unadilla resident and recent retiree, said, after more than three decades in radio, that day stands out.

“I’ll never forget it as long as I live,” he said. “I was on the air 12 hours that day. I just started giving out information as best I could. It’s important to remember, not everyone had a cell phone then. It was 9 o’clock, and most of our listeners were at work or school and they didn’t all have television sets, but they all had radios. Therefore, we went back to our posts. I went back to my microphone and started repeating the updates.

“I took a brand-new, yellow-lined pad and it was empty; I just started writing on it and, by the end of the night, every page had writing on it,” D’Imperio continued “The news came of the deaths, the destruction, the bridges that closed, the heroes; it was really sensory overload, and I just kept writing on that yellow pad. It was, of my 33 years, without a doubt the most memorable day of all those thousands of days.”

The visceral, vivid quality of the day’s events, D’Imperio said, extended to aspects of life large and small.

“I think the thing I remember the most about that day is going home,” he said. “I never remember going home from work but that day, I do remember, and I think everybody did. I lived in center city then and … my kids were little and at St. Mary’s. They were all upset, I hadn’t seen anybody all day and I remember going home and the TV was on, and I turned it off. I just said, ‘I can’t do anymore. We’ll revisit tomorrow.’”

The day, D’Imperio said, also marked a professional turning point.

“It was an unusual feeling, because as much as I was caught up in it — I have a lot of relatives in the city and the nation was in shock, people were crying — I also felt that I was really in an important position that day, as were all my fellow DJs across the country,” he said. “I did nothing but give out info for 12 hours.

“I’d been in radio for 13 years at that point, and for me, the silver lining was, while I had spent years entertaining people and having fun with people and being silly and playing great music, this was the first time where I needed my audience to listen to me,” D’Imperio continued.

“This was the first time I had something uber serious to tell people. I’d talked about snow blizzards and car accidents, but this was the first time radio really became real for me. It was a remarkable day, and it was a great day and an important day to be in local radio, and I don’t mean that in a negative way. You could just sense your audience was never bigger and you had to get it right.

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“I’ll never forget it as long as I live. I was on the air 12 hours that day. I just started giving out information as best I could.

It’s important to remember, not everyone had a cell phone then.”

– Chuck D’Imperio

People were listening that maybe had never listened before and, as I look back at all the thousands of public events and civic affairs and fundraisers, I’m most proud of what we did that day as a unit and a team, when everybody was listening to us. I really think we got it right.”

D’Imperio said, on a local and national scale, the aftermath of 9/11 proved powerful.

“The ripple started to hit us locally,” he said. “We had people who had family members down there contacting us and our phone rang off the wall with people wanting to know, ‘What can we do?,’ ‘Who can we donate to?,’ ‘Can we give money?,’ ‘When are the church services?’ and ‘What are the fire departments doing?’ “(Then-fire chief) Bob Barnes and (former A.O. Fox Memorial public relations director) Maggie Barnes, the mayor and Senator (James) Seward all came on to talk,” D’Imperio continued. “It was just one of those emotional rollercoaster days that went from an incredible high — the shock of what happened — to a day that evened out emotionally as people came together. It was a time when party lines meant nothing and everybody was just pulling for America, because America was under attack.

People were afraid, people were sad and people were patriotic. It’s hard to imagine today, but everybody loved America … and I hope we can get back to that someday.”

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Former Daily Star editor recalls hard work of telling 9/11 story

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n the long arc of Sam Pollak’s career as editor of The Daily Star, one edition stands out.

Pollak retired at the end of 2017 after 20 years as editor.

“The Daily Star’s POLLAK been around for well over 100 years — I think since 1885 — and of course I haven’t seen every newspaper, but I think that the newspaper of Sept. 12, (2001) was the finest edition ever put out,” Pollak, 71, said. “There was only one day in my 20 years at the newspaper when we didn’t run a Bright Side (story), and it was that day. Because there was no good news that day.”

Pollak said, for him, attacks aside, the day felt funereal from the start.

“I woke up and was getting ready to go to work; I didn’t normally turn on the TV, but I did that morning,” he said. “I saw one plane had crashed into the World Trade Center and, naturally, I was riveted. Then I saw the second plane go in and I realized I had to go to work. But quite appropriately that day, my day started with the funeral for the daughter of a friend. I felt I had to go to the funeral and, when I got out, I encountered a friend, Steve Feuer, who actually stopped his car in the street

to tell me that the towers had crumbled.

As I walked to my car, I realized that I would have the toughest job in Oneonta that day. And that’s how I found out.”

Though Pollak said he was responsible for “leading the effort for the paper,” he credited the editorial department with crafting a lasting account.

“There was so much to do and so many aspects,” he said. “My responsibility … included cooperating with the publisher, Dan Swift, the advertising department and the press room. The first thing was, we enlarged the planned paper for that day, because we needed a lot of space for pictures and stories. I negotiated that and worked with (chief photographer) Julie Lewis to select the dynamic front-page photo that we ran.

“But the real hero of that day, as far as our readers were concerned, was Cary Brunswick, our managing editor,” Pollak continued. “He managed to get nine local stories about the tragedy in the paper the next day. And we had some wonderful reporters — Denise Richardson, Mark Boshnak — and the reporters, the photographers and particularly Cary performed magnificently that day. It was his finest hour. I think if you look at the newspaper now from that day, it stands the test of time, due to the efforts of those people.”

And readers’ response, Pollak said, affirmed that.

“The biggest compliment for the paper

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that day was that we sold out every one we printed, and there was demand for weeks after,” he said. “I think people — like with D-Day or Pearl Harbor, V-E Day or V-J Day or when we landed on the moon — kept that day’s paper as a kind of commemorative, which is a compliment to the reporters and the photographers and Cary.

“We won some awards for that edition, statewide awards,” Pollak continued.

“There was some excellent writing, on deadline, but I think people were expecting no less from us. That was probably the biggest compliment that we could have.”

Pollak said the day stands out, too, for the sense of urgency and resonance it brought to the newsroom.

“When there is a story of great import — whether in California during a big earthquake, or any huge story … and certainly there was no story like that day — it’s almost fun to be so involved,” he said. “I remember watching the TV and its coverage and I said to a young reporter, ‘Where else would you want to be on a day like this?’ When I say fun, I don’t mean anything other than a zest for the task in front of us. There would be plenty of time to mourn, after deadline.”

Nationally, Pollak said, the attacks served as an alarm bell, the reverberations of which are felt today.

“I think the country woke up to security concerns,” he said. “In retrospect, everything changed that day, and we’re

“But the real hero of that day, as far as our readers were concerned, was Cary Brunswick, our managing editor.

He managed to get nine local stories about the tragedy in the paper the next day.”

– Sam Pollak

still feeling the aftershocks of what happened. We are probably less vulnerable to this sort of attack than before, but on the other hand, many of the things that are done in the name of security can infringe upon personal liberty. That said, everybody should get their vaccination.

“I think a lot of people who were so sanguine about the people in charge of our country lost a lot of faith in that and have never really trusted the government to look after our interests as casually as they did before,” Pollak continued. “We are more divided than we’ve ever been, and people are using the flag and a kind of faux patriotism as political weapon. It shows how vulnerable we are to a jingoist society.”

Readers I

remember well that morning, the most beautiful blue sky and I headed to our home office to do some paperwork for the farm before leaving for work.

As usual, I turned on the Today show to get updates on weather and news. Suddenly, the TV show announced about an airplane hitting one of the Twin Towers. I then thought of an accident, but more likely a planned attack.

The smoke against the blue sky, people running for their lives and thoughts of many who would be affected. My voice said, “Whoever is responsible better start running.”

I immediately called my husband to tell him to turn the news on NBC and to keep me up to date at my office. Having spent four years living in Japan while involved in the Vietnam War, I knew it was terrorists.

I went to work, the crew there was not aware, yet, and a TV was turned on.

Our son signed up into the Army and was sent to Iraq just a few years later. We shall not forget.

Bettye J. Darling, Stamford

I

was watching TV when the news cut into the program. I screamed and my husband and son came racing in to see what had happened.

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y husband and I, like many long-time farmers, had rarely if ever taken a vacation.

We were glued to the TV during the whole time, praying for all those people who were trapped, dying, all of them.

So, that September, we went to Cape Cod to see the ocean for four nights. The ocean was beautiful and we had spent two days there. On the third day we went to a coffee shop and heard a woman who was crying hysterically saying a plane had flown into the World Trade Center. The clerk looked as confused as we were and we though probably a piper cub that was sight-seeing made a mistake — how terrible.

This looked like it did to all of those other countries that were targeted by all the sick fanatics. It was devastating, heart-wrenching, unbelievable that it could be happening in the USA.

Then we went to a general store and people were all lined up at the TVs. We watched in horror as a second plane flew into the towers. My husband and I just held one another and we felt sick.

I was shaking and crying. We sat there and watched the horror unfolding on us. We kept saying, “This can’t be happening to us,” not in the USA.

Rosemary Zuk, Oneonta

I

remember that day very well. I was emotionally devastated.

I was in college — Aims Community College in Greeley, Colorado, at the time. I first heard about it by seeing professors looking at the TV in the lounge.

I saw a man plunge to his death on the unforgiving cement of the plaza from a floor just below where the plane had penetrated.

Thinking one of my relatives could be in the building, I tried to call, to no avail.

My Aunt Ruth and her family lived on Staten Island.

She had previously worked in one of the towers. Her youngest son, Peter, was a CPA. The following week was a nightmare for me. Finally, I got through to Aunt Ruth. She said all was well and that Peter had turned down a job offer from a firm in one of the towers just two weeks before 9/11. What a miracle!

Still, I was greatly impacted by this tragic event on an emiotional scale, especially in the first week.

Lisa Bassett, Oneonta

We were stunned and knew something bad was happening.

We immediately went back to the motel and were glued to the news. I had been born and raised on Staten Island, so I knew people down there. We could not relax. Our instinct was to go home and when we heard about a train being diverted in Boston we knew we had to leave, lest a road or the bridges across Cape Cod were blocked. We wanted to return and hold our college-aged children. One was in Syracuse and one was at home.

We forfeited our last night there and drove the five hours home. On the way we listened to a radio station with a woman named Delilah who at that time was unknown to us. Her faith-filled messages were very calming.

We returned and held our children and listened to President Bush tell the world we would track down the terrorists who did this. We were glued to the TV for days and in shock but we were determined that America would rise again.

Every Sept. 11 since, we have attended a memorial or watched the solemn remembrances on TV. We will never ever forget and someday I hope to visit the Pennsylvania field.

Arlene Shako, Schoharie

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By Mark Simonson Contributing Writer

hose living in our region on Sept.

11, 2001 likely have stories to tell about where they were or what they were doing when the airliners struck the World Trade Center or the Pentagon.

The general mood of the day as the writer recalls it, was somber. As The Daily Star reported on Sept. 12, the local lead story could have applied to anywhere across our nation as, “Shock, fear, anger and sadness were among the reactions of area residents in downtown Oneonta on Tuesday to the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. “‘This is a day we’ll remember for the rest of our lives,’ said 20-year-old Brooklyn native Mike Hymowitz. ‘I think it is ironic that we got hit by (terrorists in) our own airlines,’” Hymowitz was a student at the State University College at Oneonta.

“Following college, Hymowitz said, he could still envision himself going back to New York City to live and work. ‘If I’m going to die, it’s meant to be,’ he said.

“Hymowitz also said it’s possible that Arabic peoples could end up being treated with disdain in this country like the Japanese were following the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.

“‘It’s a melting pot where I live and I wonder how this will affect the attitudes toward Arabs,’ he said.

“Gary Winters, 61, an Oneonta architect, said the world economic system can’t continue operating in the manner it has with a clear distribution between ‘the haves and the have not’s.’ “‘I’m scared to blessed death,’ Winters said. ‘As tough as it is for me to say as a Christian, it’s going to be a holy war. A lot of innocent people are going to be hurt.’

“Concurring with Winters was Gerald Wood, 70, of Colliersville, who said economic factors could have motivated the attacks. “‘We have so much and other countries have so little,’ he said. ‘We have too much muscle power in this country and use it in the wrong way.’

“However, in this case Wood said he suspected America’s long-standing support of Israel and the world’s Jewish community as the reason behind the aggression.

“Wood said he hoped the attacks don’t lead to World War III. Having lived through the Pearl Harbor era, Wood said all Americans were united against Nazi aggression because of fear the world was going to be taken over. This situation isn’t

A view from the steps of Oneonta City Hall on Friday evening, Sept. 14, as residents gathered for a candlelight vigil.

as clear cut, he said.”

Moving to our city’s college campuses, reactions continued. From an academic viewpoint, Sugwon Kang, a recently retired political science professor at Hartwick College, said the attacks were a turning point in American history. “‘I think there will be a tremendous psychological effect from today’s attacks, because from now on people will know we’re vulnerable to terrorists,’ Kang said. This perception will guide changes in policies, changes in attitudes. Where the nation is headed eventually is uncertain, but what should happen soon is quite clear, he said. “‘This is a wake up call to improve our intelligence capabilities,’ Kang said.

Students watch developments of the aftermath of the attacks on television in Huntington Hall, SUNY Oneonta, on Sept. 11, 2001.

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“‘This is a day we’ll remember for the rest of our lives. I think it is ironic that we got hit by (terrorists in) our own airlines.”

– Mike Hymowitz

“‘My father was on the 33rd floor when the plane hit tower A,’ said 19-year-old Jesse Hamilton, a student at the State University College at Oneonta.

“The nation’s intelligence services have been rocked by spies and scandal in recent years, and Tuesday’s events call them into question again, he said.”

“Hamilton, who is from Staten Island, said his father called him after he was evacuated and said he used the stairs to leave the building when it began to sway.

It is well known that many students at SUNY Oneonta call greater New York City and Long Island home, so the attacks shocked many here. All classes were canceled at noon, while many were canceled at Hartwick College.

“‘The most upsetting thing is that on

“Hamilton remarked that the United States is vulnerable to this type of terrorism because it can’t control air space.

America had no control over this attack, he said.

An American flag and sign hang in the front window of a business on Chestnut Street in Oneonta on Sept. 12.

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television people in other countries are cheering,’ Hamilton said. ‘If the attacks involve the whole country we should start a war.’”

While a majority of local residents watched the destruction and ongoing events unfold in New York and Washington, those two cities were in need of outside help. Oneonta stepped in to assist, as The Star reported, “A contingent of Oneonta city police officers traveled to Manhattan…to help deal with the aftermath.”

Police Chief John Donadio said, “Everybody wanted to go because most have strong ties to New York. Also, it’s the thin blue line. These are police officers and they’re ready to answer any need for aid.” Donadio said they helped block and direct traffic, as well as sifted through rubble in the streets around ground zero.

“‘We join as a community of citizens who cares and a country that will endure these days of harassment,’ said Mayor Kim Muller, who led the vigil.”

A memorial including flowers, candles, a photo of firefighters in New York City and a plaque in memory of those fallen, is displayed in front of the Public Safety Building on Main Street in Oneonta on Sept. 18.

“Local National Guardsmen and a number of state police from Troop C, based in Sidney, have also left for Manhattan as members of volunteer contingents from across the state.”

As that first week of shock came to an end, local residents gathered on Friday evening, Sept. 14. As reported the next day, “For about 35 minutes…a portion of Main Street in Oneonta was silent.

“About 350 people — children, adults and college students — stood shoulder to shoulder listening to sorrowful and encouraging words of local leaders during a community candlelight vigil.

“The sentiments of national strength and pride were echoed throughout the ceremony, which took place on the steps of City Hall.

Members of the National Guard prepare to leave Oneonta from the armory on Academy Street on Sept. 12.

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• Honor local military personnel. The War in Afghanistan began shortly after September 11 as a joint effort on the part of the United States and its allies to drive the Taliban from power and deny the terrorists responsible for 9/11 a place to safely operate. The war is ongoing and is the longest war in U.S. history. As of May 2021, the U.S. Defense Department reported more than 2,300 American troops had lost their lives and nearly 21,000 had been wounded during the war. Communities can acknowledge these losses when

commemorating the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and make a concerted effort to thank military members and their families for their sacrifices in the 20 years since the war began.

• Honor current first responders.

Many men and women who continue to work as policemen, firemen, EMTs, nurses, and doctors participated in the response to 9/11 20 years ago. A walk of honor or another type of public recognition of their efforts can be incorporated into local events to commemorate the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Communities also can invite first responders who were not part of the 9/11 response to participate in these events, as their efforts to keep their communities safe are worthy of recognition as well.

The terrorist attacks on 9/11 took place 20 years ago. Communities can commemorate that anniversary by honoring the fallen heroes and the men and women who continue to work to make their towns and cities safe.

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sacrificed for us to enjoy the vast freedoms that we enjoy.”

Lives across the country were deeply affected by the events and aftermath of the 9/11 attacks as Americans rushed to help and struggled to make sense of what had happened:

ALEXANDREA AGUIRRE | ADA, OKLA. Alexandrea Aguirre was a sophomore at New York University.

The Twin Towers were visible from the street in front of her dorm. Friends dropped out of school following the attacks. Some joined the armed forces. “There was a string of suicides and dropouts. It took everybody more time to process,” she said. “I never went back downtown, and I’m not sure I could go back now, either.”

JOSH SMITH | PAULS VALLEY, OKLA. Josh Smith knew he wanted to be in the military from a very young age. The Sept. 11 attacks not only solidified Smith’s decision to join but fired him up about doing his duty for his country. He enlisted in 2004. During his military career, the U.S. Army specialist spent 18 months in Afghanistan. “I feel sorry for the people we helped train and the promises we made to them to keep them safe,” he said.

THE SVITAKS | JOPLIN, MO. Each Sept. 11 for Richard and Roseann Svitak is equal parts sadness and rage. If the terrorist attacks hadn’t occurred, Roseann believes the couple’s only son would be alive today, raising his own two boys. The last time they saw their son, Phillip, alive was for Thanksgiving in 2001. He was deployed to Afghanistan soon after and died on March 4, 2002, during an Operation Anaconda rescue attempt.

BOB MORRISON | EVANSVILLE, IND. After the attacks, Bob Morrison felt compelled to leave his job as a respiratory therapist. He went home, packed his car and took off for Ground Zero.

Once there, he went to work in the “pit,” where the buildings had collapsed. “We tried to remain optimistic and believed that we would recover someone, save someone. You keep that feeling until finally someone says there are no survivors to find.”

JAMES F. KELLEY | SUNBURY, PA. Northumberland County Coroner James F. Kelley still tears up recalling his experience working in the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office in the wake of the 9/11 attacks nearly 20 years ago.

Kelly worked 12-hour days for two weeks aiding victims’ families but wasn’t prepared for the emotional trauma. “Every year I’ve wanted to go back but I can’t. I’m not ready,” he said. “It’s probably just fear.”

DONNA GIBSON | JENNERSTOWN, PA. Friends of Flight 93 President Donna Gibson was living in Pittsburgh on Sept. 11, 2001, when United 93 crashed in Shanksville. The crash’s “real story” captivated her after she started volunteering at the site. “Once you know the whole story, that’s when it becomes so impactful,” she said.

“How many people know that those 40 men and women chose to be heroes that day, instead of victims?”

BENNY SANTIAGO | ANDERSON, IND. Within the first year of 9/11 attacks, Madison County Sheriff’s Department chaplain Benny Santiago made three trips to New York. He visited fire stations in Brooklyn to offer spiritual support to firefighters.“I was able to bring them some joy,” he said.

On his third trip, Santiago went to the fire station closest to the World Trade Center.

“I finally let go and was able to cry,” Santiago said.

KEITH SIRAGUSA | ENID, OKLA. Former Port Authority Police Officer Keith Siragusa was halfway between Enid and New York City when he learned about the attacks. “There was coldness,” he said. “My body became just cold and numb. And I looked at my wife and I said, ‘I just lost a bunch of people.’” For many years afterward he faced “survivor’s guilt ... I had that deal (that) I should’ve been up in those buildings.”

SETH WALKER | SHANKSVILLE, PA. Seth Walker was a junior at Shanksville-Stonycreek High School on Sept. 11, 2001. He recalled hearing the sound of a jet engine go over the school just after 10 a.m. — followed by a “tremendous boom. ...

It shook the school,” he said. Walker, 36, now shares his experiences with young people as a teacher at Shade High School, not far from Shanksville. “Every time I tell it, it’s just, like, a chilling thing.”

BRAD LAWSON | VALDOSTA, GA. Brad Lawson, deployed at the Pentagon after the attacks, now shares his story with his students at Georgia Christian School. “This was our generation’s Pearl Harbor,” Lawson said. “The only reason my generation knows about Pearl Harbor is because those who lived through it shared their memories and reinforced how much has been sacrificed for us to enjoy the vast freedoms that we enjoy.”

ANNE NELSON | STILLWATER, OKLA. Journalist and author Anne Nelson was teaching at Columbia University on Sept. 11, 2001. Nelson went on to write, “The Guys,” an off-Broadway play starring Sigourney Weaver and Bill Murray that was turned into a film about a New York Fire Department captain getting help from a writer with eulogies for firefighters killed on 9/11.

To this day, the play is performed in commemoration of 9/11.

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n the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, I was a security officer working at a television relay station in Port Saint Lucie, Florida.

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The station sent television signals to Central and South America. Management wanted us to keep the TV on in our guard shack between tours of the facility and change channels from time to time to make sure we could see all the channels being sent via satellite. My shift that day was a day shift 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. After my first tour of the facility, I settled in and started watching a few of the network morning shows.

As I recall, I was tuned in to the last few minutes of the Today show after my second tour of the facility and about the last 10 minutes of the program, they switched to a live shot from 30 Rock looking south to the World Trade Center where you could see light smoke coming from the top of the building.

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n Sept. 11, 2001 I was downtown in the West Village of Manhattan.

When the first plane hit, I heard the bang and saw the first smoke from the tower. I stood there and the second plane hit.

What I remember: • That the Blind Sheik failed but this fanatic group didn’t.

• The horror of the people covered with ash and their blank stares when they came up the West Side Highway.

• How unfounded hate can destroy human life.

• The smell of acrid smoke hung in the air for months.

• All radical thought and hatred brings destruction and death.

Gary Walters, Oneonta

My first thoughts were that an event similar to the plane crash into the Empire State Building had now happened to one of the buildings of the World Trade Center. No words had been spoken at that point on NBC. Then within seconds the second plane hit the other building. I knew at this point it was no accident.

I called the management of the station as they were not expected to arrive at the relay station for about another half to three quarters of an hour. I then put the facility under our more secure night arrangement.

Then all the news departments came on the air and we all learned of what had just happened in New York City. As we all found out, there was more news to follow from Washington, D.C. Having been in the military, I knew what was probably happening on most military posts around the world at that moment. Having been on the receiving end of an alert, I have brought a 400 bed semi-mobile hospital alive in the middle of the night a few times. But on Sept 11, 2001, I was a civilian. I was waiting to see what was going to happen and take notes to pass on.

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Remembering the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center

Among the more indelible images to emerge from the terrorist attacks on September 11 are the photographs and video footage of two airplanes flying into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan. At 8:46 a.m. on the morning of September 11, 2001, five hijackers crashed American Airlines Flight 11 into floors 93 through 99 of the North Tower. Seventeen minutes later, United Airlines Flight 175 was crashed into floors 77 through 85 of the South Tower. Both buildings would ultimately collapse, killing un-

told numbers of innocent people. The attack on 9/11 was the second terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in less than a decade. On February 26, 1993, approximately 1,200 pounds of explosives in a rental van parked in the underground parking garage of the World Trade Center was detonated by a small cell of terrorists linked to a local radical mosque and an Islamist terror network.

The 9/11 Memorial & Museum notes that the explosion created a five-story, 150-feetwide crater. The attack injured more than 1,000 people and killed six, including Mon-

ica Rodriguez Smith, who was pregnant.

The day of the attack was her last day of work before maternity leave. Two memorials, a fountain and a brass plaque bearing the names of the victims of the 1993 attack, were ultimately created to commemorate those who lost their lives. Each memorial was destroyed in the attacks on September 11, 2001, but a small piece of the fountain was recovered in the aftermath of 9/11. That piece was rededicated on February 26, 2005.

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A Shanksville Fire Department jacket is among the items at the temporary Flight 93 memorial, as shown in this September 2002 file photo. The temporary tribute was in place until construction began on the permanent Flight 93 National Memorial. (The Tribune-Democrat)

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• Museum-style space that includes photographs, artifacts, tactile models, audio and video pieces to convey the Flight 93 story.

• Features a series of interactive exhibits that help explain the crew’s actions that day, including calls they placed in the minutes before the crash, as well as the investigation that followed.

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Size: 6,800 square feet Dedicated: Sept. 10, 2015 Cost: Part of a $26 million phase of the park project

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they did and what they prevented from happening,” Gibson said.

Every element added to the park plays a role in telling that story.

The Wall of Names, dedicated in 2011, salutes each passenger and crewmember who died in the crash, their names inscribed in white marble.

Visitors to the wall move along a black granite walkway that traces the flight path the plane took during its final moments.

The concrete and glass visitor center opened in 2015 and doubles as an educational site and museum space, displaying remnants of the plane and other artifacts from the crash and the ensuing federal investigation.

While construction on the park is now complete, efforts to nurture and revive the 2,200-acre property that surrounds the structures remains ongoing.

Volunteers have added thousands of western Pennsylvania native trees in recent years. Over time, they’ll grow as part of a broader effort to bring new life to the scenic site – and restore it to an earlier era, not just before it was scarred by the crash but before it was damaged by years of strip mining.

“The memorial itself was on a very scarred landscape from being on a surface mine,” said Katherine Hostetler, Flight 93 National Memorial’s public information officer.

“Reforestation is also part of making it a living memorial. So, by planting these trees, we’re inspiring future generations and helping to tell the story of what the passengers and crewmembers did here on Sept. 11, 2001.”

“It’s really important to remember the 40 heroes of Flight 93 – what they did and what they prevented from happening.”

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• Museum-style space that includes photographs, artifacts, tactile models, audio and video pieces to convey the Flight 93 story.

• Features a series of interactive exhibits that help explain the crew’s actions that day, including calls they placed in the minutes before the crash, as well as the investigation that followed.

• Exhibit panels laid out in narrow rows that mirror the seating on an airplane.

• On-site book and merchandise store.

• Adjacent learning center, which debuted the same year, offers a conference space for special programs, speakers and exhibits.

It has been 20 years since Flight 93 crashed onto a reclaimed strip mine on Sept. 11, 2001.

Ever since, people from across Pennsylvania, the nation and the world have been traveling to the site to honor the 40 passengers and crewmembers as “heroes” who lost their lives fighting back against terrorist hijackers.

What stood for years as a makeshift memorial – a 40-foot-long chain-link fence showcasing drawings, patriotic hats and handmade signs – has been replaced by a $60 million national memorial that welcomes as many as 500,000 people annually.

Through designs by Paul Murdoch Architects and Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, the permanent memorial – under the National Park Service – now includes a modern visitor center, the Wall of Names and the Tower of Voices, a 93-foottall musical instrument whose song rings with 40 distinctive tones to honor the actions of the passengers and crew.

To Friends of Flight 93 Board President Donna Gibson, the Flight 93 National Memorial is a vital, lasting tribute to the events of 9/11.

“There are 75 million Americans today who weren’t alive on Sept. 11, 2001,” Gibson said. “It’s important to use moments like this to educate them about what happened that day.”

The 20th anniversary is one of those moments, she said.

“Especially, now that we’re 20 years past the events of 9/11, it’s really important to remember the 40 heroes of Flight 93 – what

• Quarter-mile walkway along the northern border of the field where Flight 93 crashed at 10:03 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001.

• Interpretive panels decorate the gateway “arrival court” that leads visitors to the Wall of Names.

• The Wall holds names of the 40 passengers and crew members – each on its own white marble slab alongside the walkway.

• Each slab weighs approximately 1,000 pounds.

• The Wall of Names also mirrors the path United Flight 93 followed on its final descent.

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Size: 6,800 square feet Dedicated: Sept. 10, 2015 Cost: Part of a $26 million phase of the park project

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“It’s really important to remember the 40 heroes of Flight 93 – what they did and what they prevented from happening.”

• Quarter-mile walkway along the northern border of the field where Flight 93 crashed at 10:03 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001.

• Interpretive panels decorate the gateway “arrival court” that leads visitors to the Wall of Names.

• The Wall holds names of the 40 passengers and crew members – each on its own white marble slab alongside the walkway.

• Each slab weighs approximately 1,000 pounds.

• The Wall of Names also mirrors the path United Flight 93 followed on its final descent.

they did and what they prevented from happening,” Gibson said.

Every element added to the park plays a role in telling that story.

The Wall of Names, dedicated in 2011, salutes each passenger and crewmember who died in the crash, their names inscribed in white marble.

Visitors to the wall move along a black granite walkway that traces the flight path the plane took during its final moments.

The concrete and glass visitor center opened in 2015 and doubles as an educational site and museum space, displaying remnants of the plane and other artifacts from the crash and the ensuing federal investigation.

While construction on the park is now complete, efforts to nurture and revive the 2,200-acre property that surrounds the structures remains ongoing.

Volunteers have added thousands of western Pennsylvania native trees in recent years. Over time, they’ll grow as part of a broader effort to bring new life to the scenic site – and restore it to an earlier era, not just before it was scarred by the crash but before it was damaged by years of strip mining.

“The memorial itself was on a very scarred landscape from being

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It has been 20 years since Flight 93 crashed onto a reclaimed strip mine on Sept. 11, 2001.

Ever since, people from across Pennsylvania, the nation and the world have been traveling to the site to honor the 40 passengers and crewmembers as “heroes” who lost their lives fighting back against terrorist hijackers.

What stood for years as a makeshift memorial – a 40-foot-long chain-link fence showcasing drawings, patriotic hats and handmade signs – has been replaced by a $60 million national memorial that welcomes as many as 500,000 people annually.

Through designs by Paul Murdoch Architects and Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, the permanent memorial – under the National Park Service – now includes a modern visitor center, the Wall of Names and the Tower of Voices, a 93-foottall musical instrument whose song rings with 40 distinctive tones to honor the actions of the passengers and crew.

To Friends of Flight 93 Board President Donna Gibson, the Flight 93 National Memorial is a vital, lasting tribute to the events of 9/11.

By John Rucosky, The Tribune-Democrat

Memorial serves as tribute to 9/11 heroes

A Shanksville Fire Department jacket is among the items at the temporary Flight 93 memorial, as shown in this September 2002 file photo. The temporary tribute was in place until construction began on the permanent Flight 93 National Memorial. (The Tribune-Democrat)

Dedicated: September 2011

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