The Bronx Journal/October-November 2001
Special Issue
C5
Jorge Pacheco’s Story
I Thought Spielberg was Filming a Movie
BY: MARIA CASTRO
Bronx Journal Staff Reporter
Photos By: www.davidplakke.com
"A
s soon as I
walked out of
the train station, I saw the flames on one
of the towers. I was amazed
by the color of the fire and
the smoke. I thought, as did
many around me, that
Spielberg or someone was
filming. I kept walking
straight to work. I didn't realize what was going on until I
saw a plane crashing into the
other tower."
Mr. Pacheco, 39, resides on
Barnes Avenue in the Bronx,
and works for Plantus Ltd., a
landscape company, that kept
the towers looking their best.
His memories of that day's
incidents are definitively not
pleasant, but according to
him, what happened that day
has given many people,
including himself, more reasons to live, and live well.
Mr. Pacheco, a native of
Mexico, is the father of two
sons, 11 and 9, and a daughter, 15. He remembers running from the debris along
with hundreds of people. "At
that moment, nothing really
went through my mind, all I
wanted to do was get away. I
had never been as scared as I
was then. I have just been
reminded of how precious
life is, and I am going to live
it. We never know when our
turn is going to come; I saw
rich, poor, black, white,
Asian, Hispanic, you name it,
with the same fear in their
eyes as mine. Death doesn't
make distinctions like those
of race or economic standings, we have to live and let
live."