Edelmiro Abad — requiem.nw

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National September 11 Memorial South Pool · Panel S-40

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1946 2001

Moncalvillo, Burgos, Spain The World Trade CenterSeptember 11, 2001

Lived in Brooklyn, New York. Worked at Fiduciary Trust Company International as Senior Vice President.

United States of America

Their life

Senior vice president at Fiduciary Trust International, on the ninetieth floor of the south tower. He had been with the firm twenty-six years and was there for the bombing of 1993 as well.

He was born at Moncalvillo in the province of Burgos to Ascension and Jacinto Abad, and came to the United States at seven with his parents and his brothers and sisters. He grew up in Brooklyn and stayed there. From 1967 to 1968 he served in the United States Army during the Vietnam War.

He married Lorraine, and they had three daughters - Rebecca, Jennifer and Serena - who were the light of his life. His parents lived with them. He took the family back to Spain to show them the country and his people there.

All three girls danced, and he was at every recital and every competition. His wife remembered the other side of that: if there was a male voice calling for one of the girls, he'd get chest pains. The boyfriend issue was big.

He liked war films, walks along Shore Road at Bath Beach, and the tomatoes his parents grew in the back garden - he would hardly go a few days without them through the summer and took them along on the family holidays. He never forgot a birthday or an anniversary. His family called him charming, caring, sentimental and sincere.

When the second aircraft struck the south tower it hit below him. He was still inside when it came down.

He was killed two days before his fifty-fifth birthday.

How they died

Killed at the World Trade Center on the morning of 11 September 2001. The first aircraft struck the north tower at 8:46 and the second the south tower at 9:03; the south tower came down at 9:59 and the north at 10:28. Two thousand seven hundred and fifty-three people were killed there.

Survived by

His wife Lorraine and his daughters Rebecca, Jennifer and Serena.

The World Trade Center

September 11, 2001

The first aircraft struck the north tower at 8:46 in the morning, the second the south tower at 9:03. The south tower came down at 9:59, the north at 10:28.

Two thousand seven hundred and fifty-three people were killed here: in the offices above the impacts, on the floors below them, in the plaza, in the lobbies, on the stairs, and aboard the two aeroplanes. Three hundred and forty-three were firefighters of the New York City Fire Department. Seventy-one were law enforcement officers. Eight were paramedics and emergency medical technicians.

The rest had gone to work.

Everyone taken by The World Trade Center →

September 11, 2001

On a clear Tuesday morning, four airliners were taken. Two were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York, one into the western face of the Pentagon, and one came down in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after the passengers and crew went forward at the cockpit door.

Two thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven people were killed. Three hundred and forty-three were firefighters of the New York City Fire Department. Seventy-one were law enforcement officers. Eight were paramedics and emergency medical technicians. One hundred and twenty-five died at the Pentagon, military and civilian together. The rest - some two thousand four hundred of them - had gone to work, or boarded a plane, and belonged to no service at all.

None of them began that morning as heroes. A great many of them ended it as heroes: men and women who carried strangers down stairwells, who stayed with people who could not walk, who held a door, who went back up. Four men on a flight over Pennsylvania, who had thirty minutes of telephone calls and knew what had already happened, decided where their aircraft would come down.

At Arlington, the nation set aside its own rules of eligibility and buried the Pentagon's civilian dead in national ground. It had decided that on this day the distinction did not apply.

Everyone taken by September 11, 2001 →

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