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Twenty-five years have passed since Sept. 11, 2001, when terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people after taking control of four passenger planes and crashing into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania.
At the time, I was a junior salesperson at a Wall Street bank. I worked on the bank’s trading floor, a football-field-sized room crammed with desks, giant television screens and people. When the first plane hit the North Tower on 9/11, the trading floor went silent.
Wall Street is a community, and the traders at our firm worked with brokers who had offices at the World Trade Center. It wasn’t that each of us knew someone in those buildings — we all knew dozens.
Some communities have since recovered and others still bear the scars; a generation has come of age that understands 9/11 as a historical event. As a New Yorker who lived through that day and felt our city and nation rally after the attacks, I find the anniversary is a moment when all of us can reflect on how things changed — and how we united in our collective loss.
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