Father Mychal Judge wasn’t killed by a jumper. He died inside the North Tower when the South Tower fell. The firefighter who was hit and fatally wounded by a jumper was Daniel Suhr.
I have been absolutely riveted to my chair listening to this interview. I really don’t have words to express how this impacted me;Larry you sir are a national treasure the work you’re doing will be greatly impacting America 🇺🇸 for generations. Thank you so much MAY GODS RICHEST BLESSING BE YOURS MY FRIEND. 😇 Vic is great communicator he had me right there I could almost taste and smell the air and feel the heat I am almost in tears ❤ I thank you both sincerely
Alvin my friend, many thanks for your kind words. I love this interview with Vic. Very powerful very informative!! Like I said at the outset ,one of the best detailed stories of that fateful day. God bless you!!
What an incredible interview. Vic's knowledge is invaluable and his thorough understanding and experience on the day is second to none. Hope he's well.
Amazing recall. What a man and what he went through,... the one thing that's not correct in his recall is that Fr Mychal Judge, FDNY Chaplain, was not hit /killed by a person falling. He died in the Lobby of 1WTC as 2WTC collapsed. He was hit by debris on the back of his head. RIP. This version has been going around for 23 years. I think it came about as Firefighter Daniel Suhr *had* been killed by a 'jumper' on Liberty Street as his engine company 216 was about to enter the southside of Tower 2. The story got about that Fr Mychal was also hit when he was blessing FF Suhr. Simply not true. Despite that one misapprehension, how lovely that Mr Guarnera found Fr Mychal's helmet in the lobby of 1WTC and gave it back to the FDNY dep chief. What a brave man for all he did that horrible day.
This is correct. There is video footage of Judge standing in the lobby while one of the Naudet brothers films. It’s actually really sad because you see him look up into the air and he knows it’s going to be bad. When the other tower comes down they all run into a nearby section with an elevator but Judge doesn’t make it in time.
He possibly confused him with another fire fighter who was the first fireman who died because he was hit by a person who did jump. It wasn't Mychal judge but I forget the fire fighters name.
I have been sitting here all day thinking it’s about time to hear from Larry 😇❤️ so glad to hear from you I hope you have a wonderful week , you have just made my day !❤️🕊❤️🇺🇸🎯
Mr. Guarnera brings out the confusion of that morning. I was working several hundred miles away and I recall how unbelievable the news was of the first then the second plane striking the towers. For us, it was the second plane that started questions if this was a terrorist attack. So much sadness and confusion that day.
Glad you got to watch this interview Chet. Thanks for making it possible for others to hearing and to learn from Mr. Guarnera. This was history being made now almost 23 years ago.
I am a New Yorker, born and raised in Queens. Spent a lot of my teen years in 1960 and 1970 running around Manhattan. Had been upstairs to Windows on World for dates and even worked a temp job in WTC for a couple of days back in the 1980's. I was at work in Dutchess County, NY the day of the attack. I had moved up here 11 years before the tragedy. I was on the phone with my husband who was home; I was telling him about the 1st plane when tje 2nd one hit while we were talking to each other. That was when we realized it was a terrorist attack. And just now, when I heard this getleman say that Tower 1 groaned - a noise he had never heard the WTC make before - for the first time I realized that the WTC was really a living entity that was signaling that it was mortally wounded...and it was dying. There would be no way to save it. Nor any of those being supported by its structure. Those high up in the sky would not survive.
I have and often still do think about the situation those people lived through that day and the hight at which those towers stood has made my heart skip a beat in thinking about that situation and If it would have been me would I have Jumped ? With the upmost respect for those people and that day I believe that in that situation you’re faced with death either way and one of those options wasn’t nearly as bad as the torture of the other. I believe in that position you’ve very likely accepted your fate and I hope ( for those people) that upon acceptance of that fate it gave them the peace and courage to make that Jump. If there is a god up there in the heavens he just had to have guided and been with those people who made that jump R.I.P to all those that lost their lives that day on 9/11 ❤❤❤
I always believed that father Michael Judge died from heart failure when the first tower collapsed. He was carried out by some of the first responders. He did lose his helmet though.
Father Michael was absolutely not killed by a jumper.. He was killed when the second tower collapsed. You are confusing the death of a firefighter named Danny who was killed by a jumper falling on him as he approached the North Tower. Father Michaels death certificate for this particular incident is listed as 001. So here's the official 001 victim of the tragedy. However, the very first person to die in this whole affair was a gentleman named Danny Lewin Who was sitting in business class on flight 11
People don't talk about the dogs enough. You really don't hear a lot about the role they played in the aftermath of 9/11. You also don't hear about what happened to them after the cleanup was done. I wish somebody could find some of the handlers.
I don't know if I missed something there, but (rightly or wrongly) I got the impression he felt the experience made him a better person, with more humility and perspective, less of a need to control a situation, and that this is what his wife thought as well. Even the marriage ending does not mean that she did not feel lucky she still has him. There are many people who are on good terms with an ex; but reach a point where they can't handle living with them anymore.
19:44 when I watched, my brain couldn’t process how smoke was already billowing from the tower BEFORE the plane strikes the building in a replay - an alternate angle found by the news channel I was watching. It wasn’t a replay.
