NYC Firefighter-Author Shares His 9/11 Experiences With Temple U. Students
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Temple University today hosted a program to mark the approaching ten-year anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks.
New York City firefighter Fabrizio Bivona, a first responder at the World Trade Center in 2001, was here at Temple University today as part of a 9/11 concert and presentation.
"Fifteen thousand children lost their parents that day," he says. "A lot of people don't realize that -- and that's 15,000 kids whose lives were permanently altered in the blink of an eye."
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Bivona says it's interesting to him to speak to college students about the terrorist attacks of ten years ago.
"I think it's very important. I think it actually dooms us as a nation -- even as humanity -- if we don't honor people who are willing to do more for others than themselves."
And he says he can't believe a decade has already gone by.
"It's unbelievable to me," he told KYW Newsradio today. "For me it's like it just happened yesterday. I mean, for me there are things imprinted in my mind forever. I saw people jumping from the buildings. I have a 30-year career so I thought I had seen it all. Until 9/11. And then I realized I hadn't seen it all yet."
Reported by Hadas Kuznits, KYW Newsradio 1060
