9/11: Relics from the WTC
September 3rd 2011 05:42
The stories behind objects at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.
Shoes worn by survivor Roger Hawke during his evacuation from the 59th floor of the North Tower. Roger Hawke worked at Sidley Austin, a law firm which had offices on the 57th through 59th floors of the North Tower. This was not the first attack on the World Trade Center he had lived through: he was there, too, in 1993 when bombs exploded at the complex. Soon after the first plane crashed somewhere above him on 9/11, he made his way to one of the increasingly crowded and hot stairways. It took about 90 minutes to descend to safety. He headed on foot to the apartment of his daughter and son-in-law on the Upper East Side, arriving there caked in ash, leaving his dust-choked shoes at the door before entering. His four-year-old granddaughter jumped into his arms but then recoiled at the smell of smoke permeating his clothes: "Papi is on fire from the inside," she said. The shoes will be displayed in the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York.
More photography of the relics of 9/11 on the link above
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