Even eleven years after the horrific tragedy of September 11, Myers cannot hold back the tears when he talks about the massive loss of coworkers he lost on the day that changed the world.
He’s going to take a day off from work and doesn’t have plans on watching the hours of news coverage remembering the tragic day. He plans on meditating and reflecting on humanity.
“All survivors didn’t come out with dust and blood on their faces,” he said. “My testimony is that God steered me away from death two times. I was steered away from harm’s way two times.” Things were different after the 1993 attack, according to Myers. There was increased police, more lights and cameras put in place at the World Trade Center. But along with the increase of security, fear of the possibility of another attack happening began to rise.
Working late the night before, Myers said it was a series of small events at his home in New Jersey that kept him from getting to the World Trade Center to go to work. Taking his daughter to the bus stop, unpacking a suit, ironing the suit and replacing a missing button. He said, “My first reaction was ‘I’m not going to work today,’ which seemed obvious. Then when I learned about the second plane crashing into Tower II, I thought ‘I’m not going to New York today.’” In total, 2,993 people lost their lives on September 11. In the Port Authority, 84 of the 1,400 employees who worked in the World Trade Center were killed when the tower collapsed. Because of his work, Myers knew most of the employees because he had helped them in the past with human resources issues.
It took Myers two months to return to work at the Port Authority. After seeing two psychologists, Myers realized that the root of his pain was the fact that he had helped so many people in his workplace but was unable to save them from the attacks of September 11. “Eighty-four pieces of me went down with the World Trade Center,” he said. “You can’t be healed after something like that. I had developed personal relationships with all of them.
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