story3612.xml
Title
story3612.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2002-09-11
911DA Story: Story
I was at work. Someone came in and told us that there had been an "accident" in the City. Someone got a video tape of the first plane hitting the Tower and we have a TV here in the Art Dept (it's not connected to the outside by plays tapes). A bunch of us watched in horror. Then we heard that the second plane hit and we knew it was no accident. It was scary because I work in a "defense oriented" business next to Republic Airport on Long Island. The president of our company came over the intercom and told us we could leave if we wanted to. We didn't know what was going to happen especially after hearing about the "other planes". My friend worked for Solomon Smith Barney near WTC and I was worried about her all day. She ran for her life and met her husband in Brooklyn. She saw people jumping from the Towers from her window at SSB and cannot get the images out of her head. Today she is home but will not watch TV or listen to the radio.
Vinny DiFazio, my sister's nephew through marriage worked in the tower so around lunchtime I went to my sister's house where we and her kids and their wives all waited for word of Vincent. He was in the first bombing and we saw him walk out of the building on TV. His mother said he told her "a bomb had hit and he was getting out." He worked at Cantor Fitzgerald. We waited all day for word. That night, 9/11/01, my sister and I lit a candle for Vinny. We could see the smoke from NYC out here on the island...we saw all the people lighting candles on corners and in parking lots.
We waited for a week or so and no word of Vinny, we knew he was gone. Then his wife had a memorial service in New Jersey. We drove past the site of the where the Towers had stood and smoke was still pouring out. There was tons of emergency traffic and we saw the huge trailer trucks carrying twisted pieces of steel.
Vinny coached a lot of soccer teams so his teams were all at his service, over 1,000 people showed up. Some didn't even know him. They played his favorite songs and the prest gave a moving sermon. His cousin on the other side of the family, Sal Lopes, also worked for C-F and also died that day.
God Bless America, land of the free and the brave.
Vinny DiFazio, my sister's nephew through marriage worked in the tower so around lunchtime I went to my sister's house where we and her kids and their wives all waited for word of Vincent. He was in the first bombing and we saw him walk out of the building on TV. His mother said he told her "a bomb had hit and he was getting out." He worked at Cantor Fitzgerald. We waited all day for word. That night, 9/11/01, my sister and I lit a candle for Vinny. We could see the smoke from NYC out here on the island...we saw all the people lighting candles on corners and in parking lots.
We waited for a week or so and no word of Vinny, we knew he was gone. Then his wife had a memorial service in New Jersey. We drove past the site of the where the Towers had stood and smoke was still pouring out. There was tons of emergency traffic and we saw the huge trailer trucks carrying twisted pieces of steel.
Vinny coached a lot of soccer teams so his teams were all at his service, over 1,000 people showed up. Some didn't even know him. They played his favorite songs and the prest gave a moving sermon. His cousin on the other side of the family, Sal Lopes, also worked for C-F and also died that day.
God Bless America, land of the free and the brave.
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Citation
“story3612.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed December 14, 2025, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/12041.