Garth Feeney, victim
Data Synapse
Portraits of Grief: An Engineer's Shortcut
Garth Feeney was a vice president with Data Synapse. He was attending a business conference at Windows on the World on the 106th floor of the north tower when the plane hit. About five minutes after the crash, he called his mother, Judy Feeney, in Florida. This is her account:
I had just turned on "Good Morning America." They had something on about the plane and I had just mentioned it to my husband when the phone rang and it was my son. I simply said something like, ``Hi. What's new?'' He said, ``Mom, I'm not calling to chat. I'm in the World Trade Center and it's been hit by a plane.'' I said, ``Please tell me you are below it.'' He said, ``No, I'm above it. I'm on the top floor. There are 70 of us in one room. They have closed the doors and they are trying to keep the smoke out.''
