"He made it to the 78th floor of the tower. On the tapes he says he sees a lot of corpses. He mustn't have realized what was going on above him, and everything went wrong. is collapsed. We haven't found his body, not a trace. It's very hard. "
Orio Joseph Palmer, originally from the Bronx, New York, is one of 343 firefighters who died on September 11, 2001. This Saturday, his brother and his nephew attended the ceremony commemorating the 20th anniversary of the attack that marked their city and history.
For his brother Vincent, "grieving is very difficult."
"Twenty years ago, I came here to try to find him. It's a chapter in your life that you have to accept. There is nothing else to do. He had three children, that was. very hard on them. "
Orio Joseph Palmer's name engraved on the parapet of the south "pool" where one of the twin towers of the World Trade Center stood.
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Where the twin towers stood, there are now two huge swimming pools.
Water is flowing over the walls and the names of those who died that day are inscribed on the parapets.
France 24 was there. Find the images of the ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attack below.
New York: 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks
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