By Bill Connell, Somerset.
I think it was inevitable my wife and I would move back to Franklin when we bought our house, due to our ties here. Regardless, I was at the beginning of a 15-year run working in New York City, and access to the train was a primary concern. My most notable commute was Sept 11th, I didn’t realize what I was watching at the time but I watched the smoke double in size when the second plane hit the World Trade Center, from my train creeping through the Meadowlands. To this day my wife laments “you knew there was a problem, you could have gotten off in Newark but you went to work anyway”. My work ethic was lost on her that day.
Speaking of work ethic. Both my kids were in Macafee School Sept. 11 and I can not say enough about the caring and professionalism they displayed that day. As working parents you could have not asked for more …
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