Lucky Larry
Larry Silverstein - "Lucky Larry" Larry Silverstein, nicknamed "Lucky Larry," is someone you should probably know about. He owned the World Trade Towers prior to the 9/11 terror attacks of 2001 (not to be confused with the terror attack in Benghazi which also occurred on 9/11, but 11 years later in 2012...this is a WHOLE separate blog post). Larry coincidentally had a doctor's appointment and his daughter was stuck in traffic as both towers were attacked by two separate planes. I'll never forget that day. I had arrived to class (a liberal arts class...I was a Junior in college), and I didn't have cable. So, I watched the entire thing on one of those big square box televisions that they used to wheel around on a cart. I saw people jumping out of windows and it was terrifying! I wondered how they got all that camera footage so quickly! Do you ever wonder that when you see something on the news? We didn't even have high resolution came...