(Ed.'s Note: Today marks the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist bombing of the Twin Towers in New York. A picture of the North and South towers with the Statue of Liberty in the foreground before the jetliners stuck then in 2001 and killed nearly 3,000 Americans is on a 2020 calendar on the wall of
El Pedregal Restaurant at the corner of 12th and Adams streets. Coincidentally, the Brownsville Fire Department Main Station is located cater (kitty) corner from
El Pedregal. ![]()
Of the 2,977 victims killed in the September 11 attacks, 412 were emergency workers in New York City who responded to the World Trade Center. This included: 343 firefighters [including a chaplain and two paramedics] of the New York City Fire Department [FDNY].
On May 2, 2011, Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed by US Special Forces during an early morning [approximately mid-afternoon on May 1 in the United States] raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Never forget!)
Of the 2,977 victims killed in the September 11 attacks, 412 were emergency workers in New York City who responded to the World Trade Center. This included: 343 firefighters [including a chaplain and two paramedics] of the New York City Fire Department [FDNY].