The Big Apple looked back on Monday at the day of infamy that changed its landscape, people, and even lifestyle forever.
For those still mourning their loved ones lost on 9/11 over two decades later, the hardest thing they’ve experienced, as they told amNewYork Metro time and time again Monday, is the empty seats at the kitchen table.
Standing beside the north memorial pool adorned with the names of those who perished 22 years earlier, Kathy O’Shea, the aunt of FDNY Lieutenant Joseph Gullickson who lost his life while rushing to save the lives of others, remembered her nephew as a kind man and a hero. Yet, most of all, she suffers from an undying love that pains her every single day.