We Were There, August 29, 2018

Lower Manhattan Resident Cathy L., and DSNY World Trade Center Recovery Worker Anthony P. share their personal stories of September 11th in their 9/11 Tribute Museum presentation of We Were There on stage at the National September 11th Memorial Museum.

Cathy went into the labor on the morning of 9/11 before the attack began. She was in her apartment near the WTC when the first plane hit, and emotionally recounts calling her mom, packing, and getting caught in the dust storm of the collapsing buildings. Cathy and her husband eventually got picked up by an ambulance that had come for pregnant women, and her baby girl was born on September 12 at 3AM.

Anthony gives an emotional account of the pride he feels at having been a part of the recovery effort, and speaks about the role of the Department of Sanitation after the attacks. Their role included having to remove the steel from the site, removing garbage created by the hundreds of thousands of recovery workers, throwing away rotten food from the restaurants and stores that had to be closed, and more.

Видео We Were There, August 29, 2018 канала 9/11 Tribute Museum