By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
NO-ONE forgets Andrew Cox’s birthday.
The Narre Warren South plumber celebrated his 47th birthday on Friday – September 11.
“I say to everyone, if I tell you the date, you’ll never forget it,” he said.
“I ask people to think of the biggest world event they remember and without a doubt they say September 11 …
“Everyone at work remembers my birthday, they just know.”
Some 14 years have passed since the September 11 terror attacks – it’s almost a decade and a half since the planes ploughed into the North and South towers of New York’s World Trade Centre.
But Andrew, like so many others, can still clearly recall watching the fateful event unfold.
Having visited the World Trade Centre towers in 1992 during a holiday to New York, the 2001 tragedy held even more significance for Andrew.
“In 1992 I had been in those towers and nine years later they were both gone,” Andrew told Star News.
“I remember waking up, putting the TV on and flicking through all the channels … then I left it on the news and just watched it …
“I’d been on holidays there … I could relate to it. I’d been in those towers, they were huge.”
Five years ago Andrew returned to New York to visit the site and pay his respects.
