The Port Authority on February 26, 2018, commemorated the 25th anniversary of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing on Monday, February 26, with a solemn tribute to the six victims and an unborn child who lost their lives during the attack.
As has been the tradition every year since the attack, a Catholic Mass was celebrated at St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church in Lower Manhattan in memory of those killed. Following the Mass, a brief ceremony and moment of silence was held at 12:18 p.m. near the North Pool on the 9/11 Memorial Plaza, followed by a reading of the names of the victims.
In addition to those who died, more than 1,000 suffered injuries when a truck bomb detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center, requiring a mass evacuation of both skyscrapers. Four men were convicted in March 1994 of carrying out the bombing, and two others, including the mastermind behind the attack, Ramzi Yousef, were convicted in November 1997.
Four Port Authority employees and an unborn child died in the attack including 61-year-old senior structural maintenance supervisor Robert Kirkpatrick; 48-year-old chief maintenance supervisor Stephen Knapp; 47-year-old assistant chief mechanical supervisor Bill Macko; and 35-year-old Monica Smith, a pregnant secretary who was scheduled to begin maternity leave the next day. Also killed in the attack were 45-year-old John DiGiovanni, a dental products salesperson who had parked in the underground parking garage, and 37-year-old Wilfredo Mercado, a receiving agent for the Windows on the World Restaurant.
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