Voices: Stories from 9/11 and Beyond

Rico

I saw the towers on fire from the top of our office building on 56th Street.

I saw the towers on fire from the top of our office building on 56th Street. It was the clearest day I've ever seen. Even now when the weather is like that, blue sky and calm air, I always say "this is how it was on September 11th."

I didn't yet know about my wife's friends at Cantor Fitzgerald, or the sweet young woman whose baby was born fatherless a month later.

And almost every day I live in New York and I think about these things, and I'm enraged, and sick, and I'm NOT MOVING ON.