“I don’t know when that conversation will be, she’s so young.” Someday he’ll tell her about that day, he said. She tried to ask a few questions, Hanlon recalled during a recent interview for the documentary, “9/11: Fifteen Years Later.”
“Oh, that’s what Daddy used to do for a living,” he explained. Hanlon’s mind raced back 15 years when he and hundreds of other first responders rushed inside the World Trade Center after terrorists flew hijacked airliners into the North and South Towers. The girl spotted an unfamiliar box containing Hanlon’s dusty, banged up old firefighter’s helmet. Not long ago, retired New York City firefighter James Hanlon and his five-year-old daughter were hanging out in the family garage.
