Jeremiah Joseph Ahern was born in the Bronx on September 8, 1927. Seventy-four years and three days later, he was killed in lower Manhattan on September 11, 2001. Mr. Ahern served in the United States Army in World War II. When the war ended, as a nineteen-year-old man, he went to work. Spoiler alert: He never stopped.
Mr. Ahern attended Baruch College, working for the United States Post Office as he earned his degree, and continued to work for the Post Office thereafter for a total of ten years. He moved on to the Internal Revenue Service, where he worked until 1982, when at age 55 he retired from the IRS.
Retirement from the IRS did not mean retirement from working apparently. Almost immediately after he "retired" from the IRS, he went to work for the State of New York in its Department of Taxation and Finance.
The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance had an office on the 86th Floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center. It was there that Mr. Ahern was working on that tragically beautiful Tuesday morning twenty Septembers ago when the murderous cowards who had hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 flew the jet into the South Tower, striking the building between the 75th and 85 floors.
@The Ahern Family
-AK
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