The head of the FBI’s New York office during the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks will share his horrifying experience of being at ground zero and watching the towers fall at an event in Florida, the Palm Beach Post reports.
Barry Mawn plans to also talk about the aftermath of the attack at the Boys & Girls Club of Martin County on Feb. 18 in an effort to raise money for the group, the Post reported.
“During the summer of 2001, there was a lot of intelligence indicating that Al Qaeda would strike again,” he told the Post. “We were all pretty focused on that would be overseas because they had done the embassy bombings in Africa and they had attacked the U.S.S. Cole. When the Twin Towers got hit, that was obviously a surprise to us, that they had attacked us in the United States.”
Mawn said he nearly died twice on Sept. 11 – a story he may discuss further at the event.
