By Simone Orendain OSV News Joseph Connor had his back turned to the large window of his 36th floor office when he “suddenly more felt than heard” the massive impact of a commercial jet slamming into the North Tower of the World Trade Center a third of a mile away on Sept. 11, 2001. As […]
N.Y. fire chaplain: sometimes 9/11 ‘feels like yesterday’
By Gregory A. Shemitz Catholic News Service BLUE POINT, N.Y. — Father Kevin M. Smith, a veteran fire chaplain, trauma counselor and loyal friend to scores of active and retired firefighters in the New York metropolitan area, receives more phone calls in early September than any other time of the year. Most of the calls […]