29 Years Ago: The First World Trade Center Attack
This afternoon, we gathered at the Memorial for a ceremony commemorating the 29th anniversary of the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. Family members, survivors, downtown residents, and Memorial staff left tributes at the North Pool parapet N-73, where the names of the six victims killed on February 26, 1993 are engraved.
Gil Ramos, Port Authority police officer, performed the national anthem. A moment of silence followed the ceremonial bell tolling by the FDNY at 12:18 pm, the time of the bombing. Nicole and Stephen Rossilli, the grandchildren of Stephen Knapp, and Andrew Colabella, a cousin of John DiGiovanni, then read the names of the victims: DiGiovanni, Robert Kirkpatrick, Knapp, William Macko, Wilfredo Mercado, and Monica Rodriguez Smith and her unborn child. The FDNY, NYPD, and PAPD Pipe and Drums concluded the ceremony with "Amazing Grace."
More than 1,000 people — including 88 firefighters, 35 police officers, and an EMS worker — were injured in the 1993 attack; nearly 50,000 were evacuated from the World Trade Center. Learn more here.
Jin S. Lee
By 9/11 Memorial Staff
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