How 9/11 hero flight attendant Betty Ong identified her plane’s hijackers.9/11 widow describes ‘life after the nightmare’.Firefighters honor legacy of their FDNY parents killed on 9/11.You could smell death in the air.”įollow our 9/11 20th Anniversary coverage here: There were other people crying with their heads buried, but she was more openly emotional. The woman in the foreground - it was just horror in her reaction. The South Tower collapsed and some people didn’t realize what had happened behind them. I was amazed at the number of people trying to get out of the city. I was crossing the Brooklyn Bridge and I was the only one going into Manhattan everyone else was coming out. “I was living in Brooklyn and my first instinct was to grab my camera and go. Patrick Andrade/Polaris Images Patrick Andrade They don’t realize they’re still in play in the story, that in a few minutes this dust cloud is going to engulf them, too.” The guy’s watch reads 9:45, about 15 minutes before the fall of the first tower. The people in the photo are in shock and awe, trying to comprehend what happened. I was on Broadway, looking west to the engulfed towers. That day we saw the best in humanity but also the worst in humanity. I was 30 then and had only moved to New York less than a year earlier - I’d never even been to lower Manhattan.
to shoot a local 13-year-old web designer, but my mom called at 8:22 a.m. I lived in Jersey City and wasn’t supposed to start my day until 3 p.m. Aristide Economopoulos/The Star-Ledger Aristide Economopoulos 11, 2001, and the days after remember the stories behind the pictures. Photographers who shot some of the most unforgettable images on Sept.
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