It is often forgotten that just two months after the 9/11 attacks one suburb of New York was visited again by devastating tragedy.
Residents of the Irish-American suburb of Belle Harbor in Queens had just buried the last of 12 residents killed in the 9/11 attacks, when a plane carrying nearly 300 passengers crashed there, just after takeoff from JFK Airport on 12 November.
All on board were killed.
The suburb is home to many fire-fighters, who had been at Ground Zero just after the attack. They now found themselves battling with death and disaster on their own doorsteps.
I went to Belle Harbor ten years on for RTE's News at One to see how the community is coping.http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0909/belleharbor.html
I didn't forget. I remember when this happened, heard about it on the radio. My heart leapt, fearing that terrorists had hit us again.
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