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Adriane Scibetta was supposed to be on vacation on September 11th, the last day of a weeklong break from her job in the accounting department at Cantor Fitzgerald. But the 31-year-old Annadale, Staten Island, resident decided to go back to work early and save the day to spend Halloween with her children.
She told her older brother, Salvatore, of her plan in a telephone conversation the night before and talked about wanting to devote herself entirely to raising her two children, 4-year-old Gabriella and 15-month-old Vincent. She wanted to stop working soon, and hoped to return to college to become a teacher. "She was really happy," Salvatore said. "She was adapting nicely."
Adriane and her husband, Charles, a mason for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, settled in Staten Island once they could afford to buy a house. But their ties were still in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, where they were raised and where they met on the playground of Seth Low Junior High School.
On September 10th, Gabriella started prekindergarten, with her mother in attendance for the first day of school. That was Adriane's last earthly pleasure, which she recounted with joy to her brother. "She's getting used to it already," she told him that Monday night. "She's such a big girl."
Adriane left for work as usual at 6 a.m. the next morning. About an hour later, she called her husband as she made her way to the World Trade Center, where she worked on the 101st floor of the North Tower. "She told me that she didn't feel right," Charles said. "I asked, 'What's wrong?' She said, 'Something feels wrong today.'"
Later that morning, Charles saw the terrorist attacks unfold from Queens. He tried to drive his dump truck into the Midtown Tunnel but it was blocked by traffic. When he tried to cross on foot, his bosses stopped him. All he could do was watch as the towers fell.
Telling Gabriella that her mother was gone was the hardest task Charles has ever had to face. "I'd been taking her to school, but she always said 'Mommy. Mommy,'" he recalled. "I had to tell her that Mommy's building came down. She got sick for weeks after I told her. She was just too little to comprehend it all."
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Gifted in language, the arts and life in general, New Springville, Staten Island, resident 22-year-old Maurita Tam was on the cusp of greatness as a budding finance whiz who could sing like a nightingale and never got tired of learning.
After earning a degree in economics from Amherst College in Massachusetts, she headed to Budapest and Prague with the college's choir, and came home to a career-launching executive assistant position for Aon Corporation on the 99th floor of the World Trade Center's South Tower, a position she held for just a month before her untimely death on September 11th, 2001.
Maurita left behind a legacy of perfect attendance, musical achievement awards, educational honors — including second place in an elementary spelling bee and story-telling contest — and a family devastated over her lost promise of a budding life. "She was such a good, bright girl," said her mother, Julie. "She picked everything up so quickly."
It was clear from a young age that Maurita would expand upon her talent for language, especially in French, for which she earned several awards in intermediate school. She was fluent in Japanese and Korean, and she learned Cantonese and Mandarin.
She was frisky and gregarious. Her mother would chide her halfheartedly about her unladylike giggle. "She would giggle at every little thing and kick both legs up in the air," she recalled. Her room at college was a flop-stop for so many friends, who giggled with her, teased her about a pinup poster of an Asian performer and picked her brain.
For Maurita's mother, losing her daughter wasn't the only heartbreaking loss she suffered on 9/11. Her brother, Wai-ching, also died in the attack. He was waiting at the foot of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers for a shuttle bus to take him to his job in New Jersey when he was hit with falling debris. He died a short time later. "This is just too much, too much," she said in an interview soon after the attacks, her voice cracking and barely audible. "My life is changed forever."
Eleven brave firefighters responded on this rig and all eleven of them gave the greatest sacrifice that day to save countless others. They were....... Captain Terry Hatton
Lieutenant Dennis Mojica
Firefighter Joseph Angelini, Sr.
Firefighter Gary Geidel
Firefighter Bill Henry
Firefighter Kenny Marino
Firefighter Michael Montesi
Firefighter Gerry Nevins
Firefighter Patrick O'Keefe
Firefighter Brian Sweeney
Firefighter Dave Weiss. #NeverForget911 ❤️
A very humbling experience at the 9/11 Memorial this past weekend. @crockerstills and I had some down time from our gig out there to explore a bit... while this happened when we were in grade school, being at the site itself was eye-opening and kind of eerie... many lives were lost, many heroes were born
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