102 Minutes: Remembering Ground Zero 10 years later
On Aug. 20, 2011, I had the opportunity to travel to New York City and interview three Army Reserve Soldiers who shared their experiences of 9/11 with me for the Army Reserve Warrior-Citizen magazine.
They recounted painful details from that day, their experiences deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan and how 9/11 has changed their lives 10 years later.
It was an honor to interview them and share their stories with you.
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Story by Timothy Hale
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NEW YORK – The dawn broke with a clear blue sky over lower Manhattan on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001.
On the 95th floor in Tower 2 of the World Trade Center, Thomas Sullivan, a financial portfolio planner, was looking forward to sharing the news that he and his wife Deborah were expecting twins.
A short time later, New York plainclothes police detective Vincent Mannion and his partner were coming off a midnight shift uptown when they heard a call of a plane hitting a building downtown. They assumed it was a small private plane … it had happened before.
Christopher Whitford had signed off from his night shift at the New York Police Department’s 1st Precinct on Washington Street. He then reported to Fort Wadsworth for his military job as an intelligence analyst. He had just sat down to have a cup of coffee with his first sergeant when his phone rang. It was his father.
For the next 102 minutes, their lives would become intertwined. Not necessarily at the same time at that hallowed place now simply called Ground Zero, but as Army Reserve Soldiers when their nation called upon them to serve.
