No group lost more people on 9/11 at the World Trade Center than Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial services firm.
These stories may bring a lump to your throat, may we always remember…
Via NY Post:
There is a poignant hidden significance to the placement of Cantor Fitzgerald names on the 9/11 Memorial.
To an outside eye, the names appear in no logical way — not arranged in alphabetical order, and not identified by age or company.
But 658 Cantor Fitzgerald employees — all killed in the Sept., 11, 2001, terror attacks at the World Trade Center — are inscribed in a very specific pattern on the bronze panels that wrap halfway around the north pool of the 9/11 Memorial.
Seemingly random but far from it, their names are surrounded by those dearest to them — not just co-workers, but close relatives, best buddies and, in one case, a cherished former baby sitter.
“They weren’t people who just worked together and went home. They made up the fabric of their lives,” said Danielle Gardner, who lost a brother in the attacks and has directed a new documentary about the financial-services firm’s staggering loss, “Out of the Clear Blue Sky.”
Cantor Fitzgerald — whose employees had occupied the 101st to 105th floors of the trade center’s north tower — fought for the “meaningful adjacencies” on the memorial, a great comfort to the victims’ families. The designer agreed, and a computer program was used to accommodate as many requests as possible. Here are some of the stories behind the groupings: