PEMBROKE PINES, FLA. (WSVN) – Everyone has a story of where they were and what they were thinking on Sept. 11, 2001. For a Pembroke Pines Police officer, the tragedy hit especially close to home and helped define the direction his life would take.
Lawrence Virgilio was just 7 at the time and did not understand what had happened — at first.
“I got off the school bus and my mom was crying,” he said…