In Remembrance

"I was drawing a cartoon for my window cleaning cartoons series…Watching every thing unfold as if I was there…The act of terror was not what bothered me the most.  It was this anonymous Woman’s face in the window that did the most damage…So much that even now at 9:59 a.m. 2012 I still can’t get her face out of my memory!" Chato Stewart.

My brother was hanging on the outside of Tower One at 4:30 AM the morning of 9/11/01. He was washing the windows outside the building on scaffolding at the 100th floor.  He was with a team on 7 in addition to him. At 8:30 AM he went down stairs to get more supplies. By the time he arrived down stairs (it was moments from the time of the planes impact), he felt the impact of the plane. He didn't know what it was, but he knew he felt something enormous, like an earth quake or something. He said he was standing in the lobby, and the plane hit the building. He witnessed the girl who was seen standing under the falling jet fuel who died later at the hospital. At that point nobody was allowed back up stairs, or out of the building. They were forced to stay in the lobby. He was unable to reach his window washing crew. He later learned that the crew was on the floor that was directly hit by the plane, and everyone was vaporized. He was the only one left from his crew. When the building began making noises (prior to collapsing) they were able to exit the lobby to the outside. He made it out just in time before the building collapsed, and ran for his life.

Read Jan Demczur’s World Trade Center escape story here.