with that one last photo in the camera roll he had shot, it
was quite incredible.”
After the towers fell, the family felt a new appreciation
of life and gratitude, knowing that a day can change
everything. Just one month prior, on Aug. 12, 2001,
Marnie and Ryan Levy lost their father.
“Twenty-four hours later, people are here and then
they’re not,” she said. “It’s just right place, right time… It’s
hard to believe 20 years, to be honest.”
A NEW YORKER AT HEART
Former Georgia Postsecondary Education Commission
Chairman Arthur Vaughn has lived in Marietta since
1995, but two years prior to his migration to the South, the
New York City native was working as a bond underwriter
for Dean Witter on the 16th floor of the South Tower. He
grew up in a small place in Brooklyn called Roosevelt.
On February 26, 1993, Vaughn was at work with more
than 40,000 people in the Twin Towers when a group of
terrorists drove a bomb-laden van into the public parking
garage below the World Trade Center Complex. The
1,200-pound bomb exploded, creating a crater 150-foot
wide and several stories deep under the North Tower.
Those on the top floors of the towers and surrounding
buildings felt the force of the explosion that killed six
people.
“It was scary,” Vaughn said. “The entire building
shook and there was smoke coming up through the
building, you’d smell like a fire burning.”
People began running down the stairways, afraid but
unaware of what was happening, Vaughn said. As they
descended lower through the stairwells, the smoke became
thicker and the burning smell grew stronger.
“You didn’t realize what was going on until you got
out of the building,” he said. “Imagine that uneasiness of
not knowing what’s going on but know something bad is
going on… The lower you get, the more excited people are,
and excited in a bad way.”
Years later, Vaughn recalled any time the words
“bomb” or “fire” were mentioned, colleagues would pack
up their items and leave at the slightest incident or
possibility of a threat for fear of another tragic incident.
“The emotion attached to it was just really frightening,”
he said. “The first one, we didn’t know what it was.
You could see smoke, so you assumed fire, but the word
‘bomb’ didn’t go through your mind at that time. When
you started getting to the lower floors and people started
saying it was a bomb… It hit you that you could have died
that day.”
Vaughn left the South Tower with his life that day, and
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