(East Lansing, MI) – A Michigan economist who survived the 9/11 attack on New York’s World Trade Center is telling his story 25 years later. Patrick Anderson says he was in New York City for a conference and was at the Marriott hotel at 3 World Trade Center when a plane hit the adjoining North tower.
Despite being advised to stay in his room, he fled. The building was crushed by the falling towers a short time later. Anderson is now a trustee with the Michigan Remembers Fund. He says it’s the duty of those who survived to remember those who didn’t.
Anderson remembers the moment he realized something terrible was happening…