Joey Serna

[Joey Serna @jserna9]

@AndrewBolis Free

[Gentry Gevers @gentrywgevers]

This might be the only video of the first plane hitting the towers.

[Glenda Rancaño @rancanoglenda7]

La mañana del 11 de septiembre de 2001, Rick Rescorla estaba trabajando en el World Trade Center.

Era veterano de Vietnam y estaba a cargo de la seguridad de Morgan Stanley en la Torre Sur.

Cuando el primer avión impactó la Torre Norte, hubo instrucciones de permanecer dentro del edificio.

Pero Rick tomó una decisión que cambiaría el destino de miles de personas:

ordenó evacuar.

Durante años había insistido en realizar simulacros de emergencia. Algunos empleados se molestaban por tener que practicarlos una y otra vez.

Aquella mañana entendieron por qué.

Rick tomó su megáfono y comenzó a dirigir a las personas hacia las escaleras.

Mientras descendían, trataba de mantenerlas tranquilas. Incluso cantaba, como había hecho décadas atrás con sus hombres durante la guerra de Vietnam.

Piso tras piso…

Miles comenzaron a salir.

Gracias a aquella preparación y a sus decisiones, aproximadamente 2,700 empleados de Morgan Stanley lograron sobrevivir.

Pero entonces Rick hizo algo extraordinario.

Cuando muchos ya estaban a salvo…

él regresó al edificio.

Un compañero le dijo que también tenía que salir.

Rick respondió:

“Tan pronto como me asegure de que todos los demás hayan salido.”

Y siguió subiendo.

Buscando personas.

Ayudando a quienes todavía estaban dentro.

Poco antes, había hablado por teléfono con su esposa Susan.

Sabía que quizá no volvería a verla.

Le dijo cuánto significaba ella para él y que tenía que sacar a aquellas personas a salvo.

Rick Rescorla fue visto por última vez subiendo por las escaleras de la Torre Sur.

La torre colapsó.

Él nunca salió.

Sus restos nunca fueron encontrados.

Pero miles de personas pudieron regresar a casa con sus familias gracias a que él decidió quedarse.

El 11 de septiembre nos dejó imágenes de una maldad imposible de comprender.

Pero también nos dejó historias como la de Rick.

Historias que nos recuerdan que, aun en uno de los momentos más oscuros, hubo personas dispuestas a convertirse en luz para completos desconocidos.

Algunos héroes corrieron para salir.
Otros corrieron para entrar.

🇺🇸 Hoy recordamos a las víctimas, a los sobrevivientes y a quienes, como Rick Rescorla, dieron su vida tratando de salvar la de otros.

Nunca olvidemos. 9/11. 🇺🇸Amy Ariza

#NeverForget #September11 #911 #RickRescorla #HeroesOf911 #NuncaOlvidaremos #HistoriasQueInspiran

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

On September 11, one company lost 658 employees in a single morning.

Not one person who was at their desk survived.

The ones who were not at their desks spent the next five years working to feed the families of the ones who were.

The company was Cantor Fitzgerald. A bond brokerage. Floors 101 through 105 of the North Tower. The plane hit between 93 and 99. Everyone above the impact was cut off. Nobody above the impact came down.

Cantor had 960 employees in New York. 658 were in the office that morning. All 658 died.

The chairman, Howard Lutnick, was not there. He was late. It was his five-year-old son's first day of kindergarten, and he had walked the boy to the classroom door.

His driver came into the classroom. A plane has hit the Trade Center.

Lutnick's younger brother Gary, 36, worked on the 104th floor. His best friend Doug Gardner, 39, was on the 105th. His sister Edie's morning meeting had been canceled. She was the only one of the three siblings not on her way in.

Gary called Edie from the 104th floor, after the plane hit. He told her he loved her. He told her to tell Howard. The smoke was coming in.

Then the line went dead.

Lutnick spent that day and night at the hospitals, going from bed to bed, looking at faces, looking for his people. He did not find any of them. There were none to find.

In the first days, the company did something that got it attacked from every direction.

It stopped the paychecks.

There was no company. Two thirds of it was dead. The trading floor was gone. The office was a hole in the sky. There was no revenue to pay anyone with. Lutnick said so, publicly, and the reaction was brutal. A CEO who had lost his own brother was being called heartless on national television.

Four days after the attack, on September 15, he went on Larry King Live, still in pieces, and made a promise in front of the country.

Twenty-five percent of the company's profits, for the next five years, to the families of the 658. And ten years of health insurance.

He was ridiculed for it. How does a company that no longer exists pay anybody anything, let alone make promises?

Here is what the survivors did.

Forty-seven hours after the towers fell, Cantor was back trading U.S. Treasury bonds. Through its London office and an electronic platform, run by technical staff who had walked in from the street. The bond market reopened on September 13 and Cantor was on it, because if there were no profits, there would be nothing to give.

Roughly 300 people had survived. They went back to work in borrowed offices, at borrowed desks, next to empty chairs. Some of them had lost a brother, a wife, a fiance, a father, on the same floor they had worked on.

They worked anyway. For five years.

Edie Lutnick took over the Relief Fund, seeded with a million dollars of her brother's money three days after the attack. She sat at a desk twenty hours a day writing checks by hand. Thousands of them. To widows. To parents. To new mothers whose husbands would never see the baby.

Five years later, the promise was kept. Roughly 180 million dollars went to the families. The health insurance ran for the full ten.

And they did not stop.

Every September 11 since, Cantor Fitzgerald has given away its entire revenue for the day. Every dollar the firm makes on the anniversary. Employees give their day's pay on top. They call it Charity Day. Some years it raises twelve million dollars in one day.

The people who were not at their desks that morning have spent twenty-five years working for the ones who were.

Gary Lutnick was 36 years old. His brother posted a photograph of him yesterday, on the 25th anniversary, and wrote that Gary was killed for being an American and going to work.

He is the Secretary of Commerce of the United States now. He still runs the fund.

658 people.

Nobody above the fire came down.

The ones below it have been carrying them ever since. 🇺🇸

[Sarah @Sarahtexe2]

Man survived 9/11 and has been cleaning the memorial pools at night for 14 years in honor of those who died

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

EMT Ronald Coyne passed away due to 9/11 related illness on June 25, 2013.

His testimony of what he saw that day is harrowing:  "I saw hands and legs, and I saw a woman impaled into a wall across the street from the building. I saw people jumping out of the windows when they were collapsing, going through cars and hitting the pavement, and that was only early in the morning.''

People need to know the truth of the horror.

[Father Jim Sichko @JimSichko]

Perhaps we can make this photo go viral again. This is Officer Chris Amoroso of the NYNJ Port Authority Police. This photo is from September 11, 2001, with the towers behind him. After saving this pregnant woman Chris decided to go back in for his 5th time. Despite having a wife and baby at home, despite being only 29 years old, Chris and 59 other Police Officers and 343 Firefighters never made it back out. You can curse us out, spit, defund and disrespect us, but when you call we will be there. Thats what makes us different. Im not looking for responses especially political ones. Just remember Chris and share his story. No sports number on his chest, no large contract no anthem to kneel to, just a real hero. #NeverForget

[Joey Serna @jserna9]

@AndrewBolis Money

[Holy Bible @Holy__Bible1]

Heavenly Father,
I come before You asking for healing and strength.
Restore my body, renew my mind, and calm my spirit.
Remove every pain, sickness, and weakness within me.
Fill me with Your peace and life-giving power.

Grant me the strength to overcome every struggle,
and the faith to trust in Your perfect plan.
Let Your healing hand be upon me today and always.

In Your mercy, make me whole again.
Amen.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Jesus tells us today what He once said to Martha, Lazarus’s sister: “I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.” #GospelOfTheDay (Jn 11:25-26).

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Every path towards conversion begins when we allow the Word of God to touch our hearts and welcome it with a docile spirit. The Lenten journey is a welcome opportunity to heed the voice of the Lord and renew our commitment to follow Christ. #Lent

[Saint Adaugoijele ✝️ @JustAdaugoijele]

Saint Jude Thaddeus,
Hope of the hopeless and those in difficulties,
Pray for us. Amen

[Saint Adaugoijele ✝️ @JustAdaugoijele]

The Miracle Prayer

Lord, Jesus, I come before You, just as I am.
I am sorry for my sins,
I repent of my sins,
please forgive me.
In Your name,
I forgive all others for what they have done against me.
I renounce Satan,
the evil spirits and all their works.
I give You my entire self.
Lord Jesus, now and forever,
I invite You into my life Jesus.
I accept You as my Lord and Saviour.
Heal me, change me,
strengthen me in body, soul, and spirit.

Come Lord Jesus,
cover me with Your precious blood,
and fill me with Your Holy Spirit,
I love You, Jesus.
I praise You, Jesus.
I thank You, Jesus.
I shall follow You every day of my life.

Amen.

[Holy Bible @Holy__Bible1]

Heavenly Father,
Thank You for this day. Please forgive my sins and wash my heart clean.
Give me peace in my mind, strength in my body, and hope in my spirit.
Heal every pain inside me and remove fear and worry.
Bless my family and protect us from all harm.
Guide my steps and help me trust You in everything.
In Jesus’ name, Amen. 🙏

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Jesus, however, proclaims that God will never throw us away; our Father cares for our names and our uniqueness. Every wound, even the deepest, will be healed by welcoming the word of the Beatitudes and setting ourselves back on the path of the Gospel. #GospelOfTheDay (Mt 5:13-16)

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The Gospel calls us to dare to trust, for God is at work at all times. Every moment is “God’s time,” even when we do not feel ready or when the situation seems unfavorable. #GospelOfTheDay (Mt 4:12-23)

[Manly Mentor @manly_mentor]

She taught us a valuable lesson…

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In His holiness, the Lord allows Himself to be baptized like a sinner, to reveal God’s infinite mercy. He comes to save rather than condemn. He takes upon Himself all that is ours, including sin, and gives us what is His: the grace of new and eternal life. #GospelOfTheDay