The Jeff Pulver Blog: Sept 11th reflections...

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September 11, 2005

Sept 11th reflections...

While there are other things on my mind today, it is hard for me to ignore the fact that today is September 11th and that I used to work for Cantor Fitzgerald Securities and spent June 1993 thru June 1996 working on the 32nd and 104th floors at One World Trade Center.

There were plenty of times when I was at my desk at 8:47 AM and never did we ever expect to have a plane come thru the windows.

Never during my tenure at Cantor Fitzgerald did I ever talk to anyone who came to work everyday with the fear of a follow up attack, even though when I started in June, 1993 it was just a few short months after the first bombing at One World Trade Center. What I do remember is that the folks within the systems group at Cantor learned to take the concept of having a “disaster recovery site” seriously, but not as serious as one might have thought.

I still have a hard time thinking about the people, their families and everyone who went to work on 9/11/01 just like any other regular day in their life, not knowing how everything would change, for some forever, afterwards.

Four years later, one of my personal take aways from all of this is that there are times we need to remember to “Carpe Diem” –“Seize the Day”, while we all can.

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