On Sept. 11, he was at his office in the second of the towers hit by a hijacked jet.
During the collapses, steel projectiles from the towers hit the Verizon building, sliced the mains and left water cascading into the building's five subbasements, filling the lowermost vaults like a swimming pool.
O'Grady, 32, is missing and presumed dead in the rubble of the World Trade Center's south tower, the second of the Twin Towers hit by a hijacked plane that day and the first to crumble.
The radio tower hit Thursday stood near Lebanese American University, part of a newer section of Beirut about two miles from the historic city center that was renovated recently.
Married with a 10-month-old daughter, Dick Lynch Jr., worked on the 84th floor of 1 World Trade Center, the first tower hit by the hijacked jets.
For Robert Charles Mitchell, a retired newspaper editor from Salt Lake City who lives in Logan, the fate of the pews and the bank tower hit the "same vein".
One fireman stopped to take a breath, and we looked each other in the eye, said Louis G. Lesce, who was on his way down from the 86th floor of 1 World Trade Center, the first tower hit.
Late last year, the city auctioned mementos like grandstand seats, a dugout urinal, Al Kaline's locker and the fence in front of the right-center-field light tower, hit by a Reggie Jackson home run in the 1971 All-Star Game.
Of Cantor's more than 2,300 employees worldwide, about 1,000 worked at the company's headquarters on the 101st, 103rd, 104th and 105th floors of One World Trade Center, the first tower hit in Tuesday's attack.
The core of the north tower, hit dead center by the first plane, held out the longest, because the undamaged columns on its outer edges acted like the four legs of a table.
Spies were employed to find out, and one day, just as the stranger was putting the finishing touches on the tower, men from the town crowded around the church and began to shout: "Be careful Olav, the cross is not straight" – whereupon the man, shocked at hearing his name, fell from the tower, hit the ground and died.
