Tom Lenahan worked for American Express 24 years ago, one of about 4,000 employees at the corporate headquarters in and near the World Trade Center. Running late on September 11, Lenahan was directly below when United Airlines flight 175 hit the south tower at 9:03 that morning in 2001. Ducking under an overpass for cover, Lenahan sheltered briefly there with two others, trying unsuccessfully to get them to leave before that structure also collapsed. “I could have been on that wall,” Lenahan said during a ceremony in New Paltz, referring to the American “flag of remembrance” that has the names of the immediate victims of the 9/11 attacks written upon it, and is now mounted for permanent display as part of the memorial adjacent to the village firehouse.

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