Remembering Another Sept. 11
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Today’s column was a different kind of 9/11 story. It was about Yonkers dock master Capt. Frank Kendrick who died heroically on Sept. 11, a year after the terrorists attacks on the World Trade Center.
Kendrick, who over the course of a half century had rescued at least 30 people after they’d fallen or jumped into the Hudson River, never considered himself to be a hero. On that fateful day five years ago, he died from a heart attack while rescuing a distraught 29-year-old woman who climbed over the railing at the Yonkers pier and jumped into the choppy water.
The photo here was e-mailed to me today by retired Yonkers police officer Mark Franks. It shows the police Marine Unit pulling the woman and Kendrick out of the water.
The woman was OK. Several officers tried to revive Kendrick with CPR.
“We made a dash for the shore and the awaiting Empress Ambulance and othr rescue workers,” Franks said. “It was very sad to learn that Frank had not survived the ordeal. He was a special breed of person who gave all he had for very little in return.”
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on Tuesday, September 11th, 2007 at 1:32 pm by Phil Reisman.
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Phil Reisman is a veteran journalist and native of Westchester County. He began his career in 1977 as the head copy boy of a startup New York City newspaper that quickly went belly up. Reisman was not to blame for the newspaper's failure, or so he claims.
