Margaret L. Benson worked for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for approximately thirty-three years. Initially hired as a clerk, she was working in Human Resources when she was killed by the murderous cowards who flew an almost fully-fueled jet into the North Tower of the World Trade Center on Tuesday, September 11, 2001.
Born in Brooklyn, Margaret Benson lived with her husband Jim in Rockaway Township, New Jersey, which is where they raised their two children. She was just fifty-two years young at the time of her death.
If you have never visited the National September 11, 2001 Museum in Manhattan, then you certainly should. It is extraordinary in too many ways for me to adequately express. Among the incredible items that have been displayed there is the wristwatch Margaret Benson was wearing on what proved to be the final morning of her life. When it was recovered from the rubble at Ground Zero, it was, "heavily scratched, tarnished, and encrusted in dust. The time is stopped just before 7:30."
-AK
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