Six years ago today, May Hoy kept a lunch date with a group of ladies she grew up with on Sullivan’s Island, but her mind was filled with worry over her son, Warren, an Army foreign affairs officer serving at the Pentagon.
Hoy was married to a military man, the late Maj. Tom Hoy, and he had served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam, so Hoy was no stranger to the anxious wait for news of a loved one. But she had seen the World Trade Center attacks on television and knew that the Pentagon also had been hit by terrorists.
The North Charleston Fire Department will remember the attacks today with a ceremony at the department’s administrative building at 2536 Fourth St.
Firefighters will gather at the flagpole in front of the building at 9:58 a.m. and will ring the bell and observe a minute of silence before reading the names of all 343 firefighters who died in the World Trade Center.
“I was a nervous wreck,” May Hoy said.
She would later learn that her son and his immediate co-workers escaped death by about three feet, when the hijacked plane that struck the Pentagon slammed through the levels immediately below his office.
I drove by the Pentagon on the way to work this morning. A very large flag was draped over the rebuilt portion and the facade was lit by subdued blue lights.
The current weather here is foggy and overcast — very different from the gorgeous day 6 years ago.
My sister-in-law lives in Ct. and works in NYC. On that day she was supposed to be near ground zero, but her work plans changed the week before.
My nephew attended Virginia Tech, and on the day of the shootings, he was in the classroom building NEXT to the one targeted.
I can emphasize with the people in the article.