The 12 months since September 11, 2001, have been horrible.
By David Schutt
September 2002
Institutional Investor Magazine
Five deaths from anthrax, shocking reports of avarice by wealthy executives at some of America’s biggest companies and deadly clashes between Israelis and Palestinians -- all occurring amid a recession and stock market collapse -- have dulled the violent, frightful images of that day for many Americans.
For those most directly affected, the emotional intensity hasn’t waned. Over the past couple of months, Institutional Investor writers visited more than three dozen people connected to the financial services business to see how their lives have changed (“War and Remembrance,” page 56). Many of their tales are deeply moving.
Those who lost family members confront a void daily. Rameses Bautista is a mechanic whose wife, Marilyn, an accounts payable clerk at Marsh & McLennan Cos., was killed. He still finds himself wanting to hold her hand at church. Others have changed their lives. Kevin Mincio quit his job as a Goldman Sachs banker to join the army.
Most are constantly reminded of that day. Reverend Samuel John Howard, whose parish, Trinity Church, was a block from the World Trade Center, says he has spent much of the past year thinking about September 11. The pews of his church have only gradually begun to fill up again.
This special section was a team effort coordinated by Staff Writer Rich Blake and Senior Writer Justin Schack. Schack, Blake, Editor Michael Carroll, Senior Editor Hal Lux, Senior Writers Jacqueline S. Gold and Deepak Gopinath, Staff Writers Jenny Anderson and Justin Dini as well as Contributor Roderick Boyd conducted the often poignant interviews. Ruth Hamel edited their reports.
Their text is complemented by the images of John Bentham, an award-winning New York photographer, and Atlanta-based Bob Mahoney. Mahoney, who took our cover shot of ex-Goldman banker Mincio at Fort Benning in Georgia, has a special affinity for the military: He spent most of a year working on his contribution to A Sense of Values, a 1993 photo documentary on the U.S. Marines.
The reception area of Sandler O’Neill’s new offices -- in midtown Manhattan -- has a prominent memorial honoring the 66 out of the firm’s 171 employees who died. “It’s a part of everyone’s life at Sandler,” says Senior Editor Lux. “Every day they’re reminded of what happened.”
