American Marcy Borders had only been working for a month as a legal assistant for Bank of America on the 81st floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York. On the morning of September 11, 2001, 25 years ago, she headed to what seemed like a normal workday, but at 8:46 that Tuesday morning, an American Airlines Boeing 767 was hurled into the North Tower by al-Qaeda terrorists, crashing between the 93rd and 99th floors of the Manhattan building.
Borders descended the building's stairs to try to save her life, taking about an hour to reach the ground. During the descent, the world watched the first images of the attacks being transmitted globally paralyzed.
The 28-year-old woman even thought she was safe when she finally finished descending the stairs, but the worst was still yet to come. The article indicates that shortly after she completed the descent, the South Tower of the World Trade Center was also hit, completing what became one of the most devastating terrorist attacks in recent history.
