On Feb. 26, 1993, a bomb in the parking garage under the World Trade Center exploded, leaving a 100-foot crater, six people dead and more than 1,000 people injured.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday was the memorial. You can see. Here\u2019s my dad. Here\u2019s my dad\u2019s name,\u201d Michael Macko, son of a World Trade Center victim, said.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
On Feb. 26, 1993, a bomb in the parking garage under the World Trade Center exploded, leaving a 100-foot crater, six people dead and more than 1,000 people injured
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Exactly 33 years later to the day at 12:18 p.m., loved ones of the victims honored their loved ones who never made it home
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This year\u2019s 33rd Commemoration Ceremony of the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing comes at a pivotal time. It\u2019s just months before the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks when the Word Trade Center was attacked for a second time<\/p>\n
Exactly 33 years later to the day at 12:18 p.m., loved ones of the victims honored their loved ones who never made it home, including Macko\u2019s father, William Macko.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy father worked for the Port Authority. He worked for the Port Authority for his entire life,\u201d he said. \u201cFour of the people killed all worked for the Port Authority. They all worked together and they were in their office in their lunch room and the bomb detonated right outside of the lunchroom door.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ramzi Yousef was convicted of being the mastermind and sentenced to life in prison, five others were also convicted, and all six of them are still in prison.<\/p>\n
The other victims included John DiGiovanni, Robert Kirkpatrick, Stephen Knapp, Wilfredo Mercado and Monica Rodriguez Smith, and her unborn child.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s 33rd Commemoration Ceremony of the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing comes at a pivotal time. It\u2019s just months before the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks when the Word Trade Center was attacked for a second time.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s always important when we have a chance to recognize the people who were killed in the first attack on the WTC in 1993. This year it happens to also be the 25th anniversary of 9\/11, so there\u2019s more attention to this historic moment,\u201d Beth Holman, president and CEO of the 9\/11 Memorial and Museum, said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe didn\u2019t know if then, but we would learn that our resilience in 1993 would be needed in the years to come,\u201d Kathryn Garcia, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, said.<\/p>\n
During the ceremony at the National 9\/11 Memorial and Museum, Macko was joined by other loved ones of victims who read their names aloud before placing roses on the victims\u2019 names etched in bronze on near One World Trade Center, alongside the names of those killed on Sept. 11, 2001.<\/p>\n
Prior to the ceremony, a mass at St. Peter\u2019s Church in Manhattan.<\/p>\n
A seventh person, Abdul Yasin, was indicted but not caught for his involvement in the bombing. The U.S. Department of State is offering a reward of up to $5 million for information leading directly to his apprehension and conviction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Feb. 26, 1993, a bomb in the parking garage under the World Trade Center exploded, leaving a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[25,75,84,83,9,24,12,26,63,27],"class_list":["post-146803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-app-top-stories","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nia-clark","tag-nyc","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}