9/11 Survivor Captured in Iconic Photo Dies of Cancer

[Hissyspit]

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Source: Huffington Post

9/11 Survivor Captured In Iconic Photo Dies Of Cancer

Marcy Borders was working on the 81st floor of the World Trade Center's North Tower when the first plane hit.



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Mollie Reilly Deputy Politics Editor, The Huffington Post

Marcy Borders, a survivor of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks who was photographed covered in dust after fleeing the World Trade Center, has died of stomach cancer.

Borders' family announced her death Tuesday on Facebook. She was diagnosed with stomach cancer last year at the age of 41.

The photo of Borders, taken by AFP photographer Stan Honda as the attacks on the Twin Towers unfolded, has endured as a haunting reminder of the chaos and horror of Sept. 11.

Read more: http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/55dcef8fe4b0a40aa3aca456

[7962]

1. Another victim. Rest in Peace, Ms Borders. nt

[Hissyspit]

4. +1

[sarge43]

2. ...

[blackspade]

3. ....

[C Moon]

5. So young!

[JI7]

6. 25 at the time

Can you imagine how much she must have thought of life/death and how it affected her when she got cancer.

[Uncle Joe]

7. Rest in peace, Marcy.

Thanks for the thread, Hissyspit.

[smirkymonkey]

8. How sad. I remember walking back up Third avenue that day with everyone

from downtown (I was working in the Village at the time) and the people from downtown were just covered in soot and debris. Everyone looked absolutely shell shocked and nobody spoke. We just all walked silently back uptown to where we lived. It was the most bizarre day of my life. The people from lower Manhattan looked like zombies. It was surreal.

[dorkzilla]

9. Yep ditto the Metro North passengers

Covered in dust and dazed. I’ll never forget it. Hideous day.

[alcibiades_mystery]

14. Was covered in the dust as it came eastward to the FDR drive, south of the Brooklyn Bridge

I'm the same age as this poor woman.

[brush]

28. I was on the Metro North train traveling into Manhattan when we got news of the first plane . . .

hitting the first tower. We though it was a tragic accident then we got news of the second tower and we knew it was a terrorist attack.

We got into Grand Central and then went to the platform for the Six subway train where I saw people crying uncontrollably as they tried to get uptown.

Once I got outside to Park Avenue and 25th we could see just streams of dust-covered people coming uptown. I was a newspaper art director then and that day was the most hectic day of my career as we had to ditch our planned stories and cover the biggest story ever all of our careers.

For weeks we watched battered and disabled police cars and fire trucks dusted with inch thick debris being hauled uptown from Ground Zero. The smoke, haze and smell from the disaster persisted in the air for months.

All around my work area and in Grand Central impromptu bulletin boards sprang up on walls where people posted all sizes and shapes of missing person notices, many with photographs of the people that were killed in the attack. The bulletin boards stayed up for nearly a year as shrines. No one wanted to take them down.

My wife lost a cousin in the building and my brother-in-law's girlfriend lost her son, a cop who was off duty but rushed to Ground Zero and ran into the building along with many other heroes to try to save people. He never got out.

It was the saddest day of my life up to then.

[shenmue]

10. ...

[niyad]

11. requiescat in pace, marcy.

[Brickbat]

12. Huh, I don't remember that photo at all.

[mpcamb]

16. I do remember Christine Todd Whitman appearing on Capitol Hill to answer questions on whether

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the government misled residents and workers in the safety of the air quality around Ground Zero.

[milestogo]

19. Me neither.

This is the first time I'm seeing this "iconic" photo.

[Hissyspit]

32. I do.

[Hissyspit]

31. I do.

[d_legendary1]

13. ....

[George II]

15. Sad. We're reminded of September 11 2001 just about every day.

[Live and Learn]

17. ...

[BlancheSplanchnik]

18. :,(

Stomach cancer..... So sad about this.


I hope she got enough narcotics to at least have some kind of comfort.

[840high]

20. 41 sigh rip

[AtheistCrusader]

21. W. R. Grace. Libby Mt. Vermiculite. Twin towers.

It's a sad, sad story. Do a little searching.

We'll never know the true death toll of 9/11.

[JackInGreen]

22. ...

[LovingA2andMI]

23. RIP Marcy....

#CancerSucks!!!

[allan01]

24. Marcy Borders: silent key

[Judi Lynn]

25. Startling photo. She looked like a very nice person. Hope she was able to be well-medicated. n/t

[LiberalElite]

26. I remember this photo

I remember 9/11. Watched WTC collapse from office 3 miles north.

R.I.P. Marcy.

[BeyondGeography]

27. Poor dear

So much hardship. Unfair.

[billhicks76]

29. Thanks Dick Cheney

Good thing your office was in charge of protecting us. Rest In Peace, Marcy.

[secondwind]

30. Bush was told in August 2001 that "a big one" was coming and that they "would be using planes".. and he did nothing

Rest in Peace, dear lady...

[billhicks76]

33. Obviously On Purpose