A 9/11 story from Trinidad and Tobago -9/11 attack: The man with two 'wives'

[malaise]

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20170910/news/911-attack-the-man-with-two-wives
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Vishnoo Ramsaroop was on the 35th floor of the South Tower when the plane full of passengers crashed into the World Trade Center's North Tower in New York City on September 11, 2001.

The janitor went up to the 59th floor for a better view.

Eighteen minutes later, his tower was hit by the second jet plane.

A chaotic evacuation began. Some took the stairs. Some jumped.

Ramsaroop was last seen trying to get into an elevator to take him to the ground floor.

Fifty-six minutes after the impact, his building came down.

Thousands of miles away in the Caribbean, his mother got the news in a phone call.

People had bombed the building where Vishnoo worked, she was told. And they couldn't reach him.

[HipChick]

1. There was never a funeral because there was never a body

toughest part..

[malaise]

2. Well for me the toughest part was the decision he made to go to the higher floor

for a better view. That is a West Indian man. Sad story with a touch of West Indian 'fast'.
They say when others run from a fire or accident, we get closer for a look.

[marybourg]

3. There are three thousand stories.

The one I know best is about my daughter's friend who gave up her job as a flight attendant because she was afraid she was going to be killed in an air accident, and took a "safe" job with a large insurance company in the WTC.

Edited to add, for clarity: the job was on a very high floor, and she wasn't late to work that day.

[malaise]

4. We have these close family friends

Their son-in-law and his best friend went to high school and Howard U together. The best friend was in the second tower - came out when the first tower was hit but decided to return to his office - and
that was the last anyone heard from him.

And then there are those who lived because they were late for work - who rose from the subway to face a day we'll never forget.