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A tragic event twenty-four years later September 11, 2001The United States continues to reflect on the terrorist attacks and mourns the losses of nearly 3,000 people as lasting pain remains.
A new generation is learning about basic days in American history through the voices of those who have lost their loved ones, including soldiers and women who have encountered the collapsed Twin Towers, and shared stories at commemorations held across the United States, especially in New York City.
FDNY Fireman, who died 24 years ago, told Fox News Digital Digital: “Since that day, we have been going to the fire station every 9/11 every 9/11.
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Lieutenant Dodell was working on FDNY for 21 years before he lost his life as a hero. (Patrick Dodell)
Lieutenant Dodell was a firefighter in Queens Rescue 4 and was in FDNY for 21 years when he was killed.
“He’s dad,” Dowdell said.
“He has a very long career with some really big events, including a roof rope rescue in Midtown Manhattan, a restaurant explosion in Queens. He responded Oklahoma City bombing Moreover, the First World Trade Center bombing will be carried out. ”
Dowdell remembers his father as a current father who always brings home for sporting events and dinner time.
“We love having supper in Manhattan,” Dowdale said of his family. “He would sit down at dinner and say ‘This is my job all week,’ and now, when we go out for supper, we use it with the kids.”
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On September 11, a day that many people remember, the Blue Day, Dowdell’s first year in college, his father sent him back on September 9 after visiting his home on weekends to celebrate his brother’s birthday. Lieutenant Dowdell returned to work for 24 hours from September 10 to September 11.
“I called my mom’s landline from the landline and we were just waiting for what happened,” Daudel recalls. “My father’s fire station was in Queens, which was a little far from the lower Manhattan, and usually, they wouldn’t have the chance to respond that far away.”
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“We continued that night and we didn’t hear from him, knowing he was working, just assuming they were missing,” Dowdale said.
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Patrick Dowdell, a former army waiter, is affectionately recalling his father, who was present and had supper at home until he died tragically in responsibility on September 11, 2001. (Patrick Dodell)
Stands about hope that Lieutenant Taudell was taken to the hospital or escaped the collapse. The family still supports each other.
Dowdell told Fox News that “every time the door opens, we turn around to see if he comes in.”
“I don’t think he’s ever been back at this moment. We just had to take it gradually.” “It’s obvious that as the days go by, the worst things can happen become more obvious.”
After 9/11, Lieutenant Dodell’s sons Patrick and James Dodell volunteered to be 24/7 with the Rescue 4 firefighters until May 15, 2002 on May 15, 2002. Ground zero Crush debris, rubble and steel bars.
“The idea is that if we recover and we can be sure that it’s my father, and my brother and I are there, we’ll take him into the Stokes basket with a flag on it,” said Dowdale.
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Unfortunately, we never got this opportunity. He never recovered. The only ones recovered were his Halligan or his fire officer’s tools, which were discovered a few days later. It has a “kd” solder on it, “r4” is used for rescue 4, so that’s what we know this is his and it was sent back to us. ”
Taudell said he felt comforted knowing his father sacrificed himself to try to save others.
“It never goes away,” he said. “My father never met his grandson. He never met graduation and birthday.”
In July 2002, Dodell began attending the U.S. Military Academy at West Point until he graduated in 2006. Service in Iraq and Afghanistan Five years. His brother James, who worked as an FDNY firefighter, has been in Rescue 4 for nearly a decade, and his father ended his career heroically.
Patrick Dowdell and his brother James Dowdell respected their father’s memory, who served in the U.S. Army on September 11, 2001 as a firefighter with the FDNY to die. (Patrick Dodell)
“In this city, my brother served with other firefighters and their father was also killed on 9/11,” Dowdale said.
Now, current and former FDNY and their families are invited to rescue 4 Remember the firefighters I got lost that day.
Dowdell, as an experienced bagpiper, plays a tune for each event every year: At 8:46 am when the first plane hit the North Tower, at 9:03 am when the second plane hit the South Tower, at 9:37 am when the third plane crashed into the Pentagon, at 9:59 am when the South Tower collapsed, at 10:03 am when Flight 93 crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and at 10:28 am North Tower It collapsed.
The Dowdell family gathers family dinners at home every year, where they recite one thing they thanked and they think their husband and father, Lieutenant Dowdell, will enjoy it last year.
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“We always remembered him at that moment, and we kept talking about him,” Dowdell said. “My kids know who Grandpa Kevin was and how he died.”
