Officer Pulled From WTC Rubble Retires
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Trapped deep beneath the rubble of 1 World Trade Center, his legs crushed from hip to foot on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Lt. John McLoughlin accepted what seemed inevitable.
“I assumed I was going to die where I was buried,” McLoughlin said at an emotional ceremony celebrating his retirement from the Port Authority Police.
Rescuers pulled McLoughlin, 51, from the wreckage about 22 hours after the twin towers collapsed, making him the last uniformed person rescued from the site where 2,749 others perished.
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