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On Feb. 26, 1993, Port Authority employee Philip Caffrey was at his desk on the 69th floor of the North Tower when he heard a loud explosion and felt the building sway.
Monica Smith worked at the World Trade Center as a mechanical unit secretary for the Port Authority.
Stephen Knapp lived with his wife, Louise, and their two children on Staten Island, where he was born. Stephen worked at the World Trade Center since its opening and was the Port Authority’s chief maintenance supervisor.
Born in Lima, Peru, Wilfredo Mercado lived in East New York, Brooklyn, with his wife, Olga, and their two daughters. Wilfredo worked two jobs at the World Trade Center: weekdays as Windows on the World’s purchasing agent and weekends as a security guard.
Last year, the 9/11 Memorial Museum accepted a small fragment of green-tinted window glass into its collection. But this seemingly quotidian artifact had a more than 20-year journey to the 9/11 Memorial Museum and tells a critical story of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
William Macko lived in Bayonne, N.J. He and his wife, Carol, had four children. William was a former U.S. Marine and enjoyed fishing and cooking. He worked for the Port Authority as an assistant chief mechanical supervisor for the World Trade Center.
The oral histories collected by 9/11 Memorial Museum span the range of the whole human experience. These stories of bravery and loss, endurance and suffering and life and death often have one element in common: love.
The 9/11 Memorial and Museum, in partnership with VOICES of September 11th, will host a special program tonight for those affected by the 1993 and 9/11 attacks. “25 Years Later: The 1993 World Trade Center Bombing, Then and Now” will feature personal stories told by those who experienced the 1993 attack firsthand and discussion about long-term emotional recovery.
At 12:18 p.m. on Feb. 26, 1993, terrorists drove a rental van into the World Trade Center’s below ground parking garage and detonated a bomb. Six innocent people were killed, including a pregnant woman.
On the cold winter morning of Feb. 26, 1993, Carl Selinger headed to work at the World Trade Center where he was employed by the Port Authority as the manager of business development for the aviation department.
