Michael Trerotola spent much of his childhood believing that his mother died in a fire when he and his twin sister were 3 years old. When he was 10, he discovered that his mother, Lisa Trerotola, had been killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks while working for the Port Authority of NY & NJ in the World Trade Center’s North Tower.
Michael spoke to Alexandra Marvar of TCNJ (The College of NJ) Magazine about his experience.
Funds have been raised for a memorial to the 2,973 people killed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks to be built in Mountain Home, Arkansas, reports KTLO staff.
The future memorial will feature a piece of World Trade Center steel suspended between two replica towers on a pentagonal base. It will stand on Veterans Plaza near the Baxter County Courthouse.
A combination of COVID-19 fears and closures, bad weather, and work from home has sparked a national crisis for blood supplies, reports Ximena Del Cerro for the Brooklyn Paper.
This weekend’s ice is expected to raise the need for blood and lessen the supply of donors still more.
New York City customarily has a five-to-seven day supply of blood. Now the city has two-to-three days’ worth of blood.
As COVID cases decline, more elective surgeries are being performed. Hospitals are using more blood than is being donated.
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