ABC 7 Chicago, Chicago-area residents pause to remember 9/11 attacks
Chicago-area residents joined the nation as it paused to remember the 9/11 terrorist attacks Thursday.
Pentagon survivor Lt. Col. Ryan Yantis took part in the Patriot Day Memorial Service at the Union League Club of Chicago along with Don Bacso, who survived the attack on the World Trade Center.
"We were going about our day-to-day business looking at New York in case they called for help, when the second plane struck, we were actually watching TV like millions of other Americans," Yantis said. "Right then I knew that we were under attack."
Bacso, a Dyer, Ind. resident, was on the 57th floor but able to get out of the North Tower just before it collapsed.
"It was disbelief at first, then it was anger, because it was, how could they do this to us, how could they take our commercial jet liners with our people on it and crash it into these buildings," Bacso said.
