Joe Dittmar of Lewes is a survivor of the terrorist attacks on 9/11. As we are just two days away from the 20th anniversary of the attack, WBOC sat down with Dittmar to hear his story.
In 2001, Dittmar was living in Aurora, Illinois and working for C&A insurance company in Chicago. In August of 2001, he was asked to attend an executive meeting the following month in the World Trade Center.
The meeting was on the 105th floor of the South Tower, in an enclosed conference room with 54 people, no windows and one door.
"At 8:46 the lights in the room started to flicker," Dittmar explained. "That was it. We didn't hear or see anything or feel anything, just this flicker of the lights."
Immediately after the lights flickered, Dittmar said a gentleman came into the room demanding they all evacuate.