NYC Landmark

July 28, 1945 fell on a Saturday and I was sleeping late as my job at the pharmacy began at 1PM. A DJ was playing early Sinatra on the radio when the broadcast was interrupted. A military aircraft - a B25 twin engine bomber with a crew of three, on a routine flight, was trying to reach Newark Airport in a dense fog. He was flying straight down Fifth Avenue at approx. 1000 feet elevation when the plane crashed into the Empire State Building at the 79th floor killing all on board plus 11 workers in the building. The loss would have been greater were it not a weekend. The landmark withstood the shock being of brick and mortar so different from the WTC built 25 years later. The New York Times reminded us this week on the 70th anniversary. I remember it as if it were yesterday.
tjs