nmah25.xml
Title
nmah25.xml
Source
born-digital
Media Type
story
Date Entered
2002-06-22
NMAH Story: Story
I have been a widow for nine years and on 9/11 I lost my only child, Dominique Pandolfo, age 27.
On the evening of September 10, Dominique had started her first MBA class at NYU Stern Business School. She phoned me when she got to her Hoboken apartment to let me know how excited she was about school and that she met some fellow classmates that also lived in Hoboken and shared a cab when they got off the PATH train. Of course, being a mother, I was happy that she didn't have to travel alone, but I dare not tell her this. After all she lived in the East Village and nothing happened...she would be fine in Hoboken! Little did we know.
During our phone conversation she mentioned she was being picked up by a car service on Tuesday morning...she had a meeting at the WTC. Never having traveled downtown from Hoboken before (she moved on 9/1) the car service picked her up at 8:00am and dropped her off at 8:20am.
As I sat in my office on Tuesday morning a fellow worker's husband called to say a plane hit the Tower. Shortly after that he called back again to say the second Tower was hit. By this time we had the radio on and as I passed the radio it dawned on me that "OH MY GOD DOMINIQUE IS DOWN THERE TODAY."
I guess a mother's intuition told me I was never going to see her again.
On the evening of September 10, Dominique had started her first MBA class at NYU Stern Business School. She phoned me when she got to her Hoboken apartment to let me know how excited she was about school and that she met some fellow classmates that also lived in Hoboken and shared a cab when they got off the PATH train. Of course, being a mother, I was happy that she didn't have to travel alone, but I dare not tell her this. After all she lived in the East Village and nothing happened...she would be fine in Hoboken! Little did we know.
During our phone conversation she mentioned she was being picked up by a car service on Tuesday morning...she had a meeting at the WTC. Never having traveled downtown from Hoboken before (she moved on 9/1) the car service picked her up at 8:00am and dropped her off at 8:20am.
As I sat in my office on Tuesday morning a fellow worker's husband called to say a plane hit the Tower. Shortly after that he called back again to say the second Tower was hit. By this time we had the radio on and as I passed the radio it dawned on me that "OH MY GOD DOMINIQUE IS DOWN THERE TODAY."
I guess a mother's intuition told me I was never going to see her again.
NMAH Story: Life Changed
My life will never be the same. My heart breaks every day.
This was a vibrant, intelligent, self-confident young lady that would have made a difference in this world.
This was a vibrant, intelligent, self-confident young lady that would have made a difference in this world.
NMAH Story: Remembered
That my daughter, along with all the other innocent people, should not have died in vain. Everything possible should be done to prevent anything like this from ever happening again.
We DO NOT HAVE STRONG ENOUGH SECURITY!
We DO NOT HAVE STRONG ENOUGH SECURITY!
NMAH Story: Flag
YES....
Citation
“nmah25.xml,” September 11 Digital Archive, accessed November 26, 2024, https://911digitalarchive.org/items/show/44559.