Alfonse J. Niedermeyer, III spent seventeen years serving and protecting the people of New York and New Jersey as a Police Officer for the Port Authority Police Department. He had been recognized by his department for his role in rescuing passengers from US Air Flight 405 when it skidded off a runway at LaGuardia Airport on March 22, 1992.
On what turned out to be the final morning of his life, Officer Niedermeyer, forty years young, was at his job in the Commercial Vehicle Inspection Unit. It was his first day back following a two-week vacation. He responded to the South Tower because that was where people needed his help. It was there, of course, where people needed to be rescued. It was there, tragically, where Office Niedermeyer died.
He lived in Manasquan, New Jersey with his wife, Nancy, and the couple's son, A.J. In May 2002, Nancy gave birth to the couple's second child, a little girl named Angelica Joy.
Nancy Niedermeyer has put her incredibly tragic experience to use in a career helping others. She is a Mental Health Professional who counsels people through the worst times of their life. It is, unfortunately, a journey with which she is intimately familiar.
-AK
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