Actually my public career was mostly in Woodside Queens. We had at one countb57 languages. Our kids ran the gamut of going anywhere from Attica to Yale Med. Many of my Catholic school kids became MOS, as they say in the City. One fellow told me that countng NYPD,PA,FDNY, 50 of my kids were at Ground Zero on 9/11. One didnt make it home. He was in Ladder40 on his way up.
I worked with an officer who lost one of his twin girls on 9/11. She worked in the South Tower. Her twin worked in the North Tower and escaped that day.