Honoring September 11th: Frank

by Chris Burgard

Frank Munoz was a good guy.  When he was a teenager, he worked hard to straighten his life out. He went to school. He got married. He got a job. He took good care of his mom. 

Frank Munoz died on the 73rd floor of The Second Tower on Sept. 11, 2001.

For days after 9/11, his family searched the hospitals because some sick person put his name on a fake Internet survivor list. 

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I didn’t cry for him until two years later when my wife and I stood at the edge of Ground Zero. 

Afterwards, Lisa and I wanted to get a burger. A block away, we walked into a bar called O’Hara’s. On 9/11, O’Hara’s had their windows knocked out and the building was covered in debris.  (more…)