On 9/11, he escaped NYC on a boat

And I ran down Pier 11, jumped onto a New York waterway ferry with several other people that were on there. Everyone was just in shock, quiet, crying, thirsty, coughing, and somehow the boat captain pulled away from Pier 11, managed to go through the smoke, until eventually we came out on the west side of Manhattan. And that is where we saw that the towers had fallen. At Wall, New Jersey, I worked at the New York Stock Exchange on September 11th. And I had taken the PATH train to World Trade Center, as I did every morning, walked out of the South Tower just after 8 o'clock in the morning. And sometime between walking to the New York Stock Exchange and getting in there is when the first plane hit, and I was standing outside beneath the South Tower when the second plane hit. And as we tried to figure out what was going on, our company gathered people together, and as we were gathering people together just outside the Stock Exchange is when the South Tower collapsed. And everyone yelled, run, and we ran south, and there being a wind that day that was pushing all the dust and debris and everything south of us, and we ran a couple blocks before the dust cloud just basically overtook us and, you know, basically started walking, trying to see, figure out where we were going to go, ended up down in Battery Park with several hundred other people. Policemen started moving us, well, we were standing there as the South Tower collapsed, excuse me, the North Tower collapsed, and when you couldn't see, and then the initial burst of smoke and ash was just accurate and you couldn't make out anything, as that more or less started to clear a little bit, I was able to make my way up towards the FDR and down to Pier 11 and saw that there was a boat that was leaving Pier 11, and I ran down Pier 11, jumped onto one New York Waterway Ferry with several other people that were on there. Everyone was just in shock, quiet, crying, dusty, coughing, and somehow the boat captain pulled away from Pier 11, managed to go through the smoke, until eventually we came out on the west side of Manhattan, and that is where we saw that the towers had fallen. We did not know they had completely collapsed. We had no idea. It was just a horrible, horrible incident. So, when you look back, it didn't look like they were gone, it looked just like the smoke was hanging where they should be, and I ended up in Jersey City, walked from Jersey City to Hoboken. The trains were not running. I ended up meeting up with several work people. We took a cab down to Aberdeen-Madelon Trace Station, where we got in one of the person's cars, who was kind enough to drop me off at the place I was living in in Bradley Beach at the time, and really only later in the day, this was probably 5 or 6 o'clock, I got home, and later in the day is really when I realized just how bad everything had been. I wish everyone luck, and it was a horrible day, but we did come together, and just always thinking about those that were lost that day, and the sights and sounds and events are things I will never forget. Thank you.