COURAGE, HEROISM, AND BRAVERY

September 11, 2001, a time of great sadness and of heroism. Some people might not know but two men named Frank Martini and Pedro Ortiz became heroes but with a cost, they worked on the 88^th floor of the north trade center. An ordinary day at work turned into a terrible day when at 8:47 am a plane crashed right into the building 4 levels up, many people in the building got trapped and killed in the impact. These two men stood up and went to go help employees in the building find their way down by the flight of stairs, while they the workers went down the building, Frank, and Pablo went up to help others. Some workers were trapped by something blocking the door, and that couldn’t find their way out. Floor after These two men helped employees but when they got to the 91^st floor they couldn’t get up any higher because the debris was blocking the way up, they had way to help anyone trapped up in the upper floors, so they decided to go back down to check all the floors again, in total they saved a total of 77 employees. The last man they helped out was in the 73^rd floor, this man was trapped in the express elevator, sadly this man did not get out, and he was only inches away before 10:29, when the North tower collapsed. The bodies of Frank and Pablo never where found, the last thing known about them were that they were in the 73^rd floor when they used the walkie talkies to contact the police that something was wrong and that they didn’t have much time, this was 10 minutes before it collapsed. They showed courage, strength, and inspired others to help out during the situation at hand. What made these two regular guys get the courage and the strength to take it in their own will to take this challenge? To risk their lives to save 77 people, even though they had a wife and kids, they thought of others and died like heroes. They showed something to those people that day, Hope, 9-11 was supposed to be a day of tragedy and terrorist thought that we all as a nation should live in fear, but they were wrong. We should follow an example out of this, sure we may no go to these extremes with helping out during a situation, but little things can be useful, like bullying, or helping homeless people.

            I remember 9-11, before I didn’t really understand what was going on, what was the purpose and how can something like this happen, before I didn’t even hear about Frank and Pablo, it took me ten years later to fully understand everything, my prayers go to their family and the people who lost loved ones. On this day we were caught off guard but were made stronger and stood together as one. We as people don’t really realize sometimes out of everyone around there lays some people that will either help us during a situation or not, but are you that kind of person?