September 11 Attacks: 17 Years On
Today is the 17th anniversary of the September 11 attacks in New York, the day that 16 Risk Waters staff members lost their lives. Today we remember them.
Read this outstanding piece written by Peter Field, CEO of the Risk Waters Group, who was on his way to the World Trade Center as the September 11 attacks transpired. Peter briefly brings to life all sixteen staff members who lost their lives that day.
Victor Anderson, current editor of Waters magazine, wrote the piece below on the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
It seems like yesterday that the world changed forever at 8.46 AM on that crystal-clear Tuesday morning in downtown Manhattan.
The Waters staff have, naturally, discussed the events of that day, given Waters’ poignant association with September 11, even though our youngest staff member hadn’t even started high school at the time. But the families of the 16 Risk Waters staff members who lost their lives that day, will find little consolation in the knowledge that, as a group, we have spoken about their loved ones, and, while we might not know them, they have been in our thoughts in the lead up to every anniversary of the day their lives were turned upside down.
On early Thursday morning on the 10th anniversary of the attacks, as I was readying myself to leave the house and make my way to work, I briefly watched a BBC interview with Margaret (Maggie) Owen, the mother of Melanie de Vere, one of the Risk Waters “16”. For me, the interview “particularized” for the first time in years the emotional devastation of those caught up in the attacks, poignantly conveyed by a mother longing for her daughter, about whom people still talk.
In the days and weeks following “that Tuesday,” resolutions were made and “bucket lists” compiled, but as is so often the case after an emotionally charged episode, we find it all too easy to slip back into normality, fixating on the trivialities of the day-to-day grind, blissfully ignorant of the bigger picture, revealed fleetingly during those flashes of intense, yet infrequent, introspection.
Perhaps now, on the anniversary of that dreadful day, it is time to revisit those resolutions and actually eat with the good cutlery rather than just talking about it? Perhaps now is the time to follow through on those plans to climb that mountain, to serve in that soup kitchen during the festive season, and to enhance those relationships with our significant others?
From all of us at Waters, to all of you: We’re thinking of you at this time.
Victor Anderson, editor-in-chief.
We remember our friends and colleagues who lost their lives in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
Sarah Ali Escarcega
Freelance Marketing Consultant
Oliver Bennett
Staff Writer, Risk
Paul Bristow
Senior Conference Producer
Neil Cudmore
Sales Director, Waters
Melanie de Vere
Publisher, Waters Reference Products
Michele du Berry
Director of Conferences
Elisa Ferraina
Senior Conference Sponsorship Coordinator
Amy Lamonsoff
Conference Coordinator, North America
Sarah Prothero
Conference Operations Manager
David Rivers
Editorial Director, New York
Laura Rockefeller
Freelance Delegate Coordinator
Karlie Rogers
Divisional Sponsorship Manager
Simon Turner
Board Director
Celeste Victoria
Conference Telesales Executive
Joanna Vidal
Events Coordinator
Dinah Webster
Head of North American Sales
We also remember our 65 colleagues from the industry who attended the Waters conference in the World Trade Center as delegates, speakers, sponsors and exhibitors.
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