Don Thank you for remembering this important event such a good friend staying with Quadriplegic as the towers collapsed. Dana
Sent from my iPhone On Sep 11, 2013, at 10:17 PM, Don Price <[email protected]> wrote: > On the annivrsary of 9-11 I like to remember ABE ZELMANOWITZ, a man who > stayed by the side of his quadriplegic friend, Ed Beyea, when he could've > vacated the building. Abe sacrificed his life in the name of friendship and > compassion to comfort Ed, who had no way to exit the tower. People like Ed > and Abe should never be forgotten. > > Don. > > http://www.voicesofseptember11.org/dev/memorial_biography.php?idbio=820151250 > > One such friend was Ed Beyea with whom Abe worked for the twelve years that > he was employed by Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Ed was a quadriplegic ever > since sustaining a devastating injury in a diving incident when he was 21 > years old. Even though they came from such different backgrounds - Ed was a > Christian and Abe an Orthodox Jew - they had many common interests. They > enjoyed the same music, from Andrea Bocelli and the 3 Tenors to the Beatles, > exchanged books, videos and DVD’s, played computer golf and chess and went > out to dinner frequently with other co-workers. If Abe made the reservations > he’d make sure that the restaurant was wheelchair-accessible, and if Ed made > the reservations he’d make sure that the place was kosher. > > On that fateful, dreadful day, after the first plane crashed into the North > Tower, when others were fleeing the building, Abe chose to remain with Ed. > Ed’s aide, Irma Fuller, had been on a higher floor and was coughing badly. > Abe told Irma that he would stay with Ed and that she should leave and send a > rescue team to help carry Ed down the stairs. We subsequently learned from > Mike Burke, that his brother, Captain William Burke of the New York City Fire > Department, was with them at the end. Tragically, they all perished.
