As I have done every year since the 5th anniversary of September 11th, I remember two wonderful individuals, Brook Jackman and Andrew Golkin, who I’ll never have a possible chance to meet and converse with, due to 19 murderous Islamist terrorists and their superiors, who attacked our country on that fateful day.
If you have not seen it, I highly recommend watching 102 Minutes That Changed America over at Tubi. No narration. No background music. Just video from people from the time the first plane hit to when the towers fell. It is chilling. There’s a part where you see the courtyard, with Muzac version of a Billy Joel song playing, and every bang you hear is a person falling to their death.
This is Brooke Alexandra Jackman. She was born August 28, 1978. She was murdered by Islamic extremists September 11, 2001, while working at Cantor Fitzgerald, where she worked as an assistant trader. She was just 23.
After reading so many touching stories and tributes about Brooke, I feel I almost know her. Her smile is infective. It seems so natural, rather then forced, as so many picture smiles are.
But, why listen to me. Listen to her father, Robert Jackman:
Brooke, the Brookster, the baby, so beautiful, so bright, so wonderful. She always made notes of her daily projects; she hated to forget anything. She had to be perfect-to do everything to perfection. She was the best and she always tried to see the best in everyone, always respected the other person’s right to be different. Brooke loved books reading all the time. I would bring her to work when she was a little girl and she would read her books all day in the office until she fell asleep on the couch. Brooke was the baby, the youngest of three, like me. I would tell her that’s what made her so strong, so independent, so focused because she always had to stick up for herself with her older brother and sister.
It seems that everyone who knew Brooke felt the same way. Apparently, she was a huge reader, with her nose always in a book, stopping by Borders everyday on her way to work. A kindred soul, since I typically have several books I am reading at one time. Makes me feel a little closer to this wonderful women I never knew, and now, will never meet.
Brooke was a giver, volunteering her time to work at soup kitchen’s, a school or the disabled, and a thrift shop that benefited cancer patients. She even won an award in 1996 from the Nassau County Executive for “scholarship and service.”
She worked on the 104th floor of Tower 1.
You can access the Brooke Jackman Foundation here.
God Bless you, Brooke, and may He always keep you in His arms.
This is Andrew Golkin. He was a Vice President at Cantor Fitzgerald. Born, 1970. On 9/11, 2001, Islamic extremists killed him. He was 30.
Born and raised in The City, he overcame disabilities to succeed in life, to be a world traveler, and a well respected member of Cantor Fitzgerald as VP of Interest Rates Derivatives.
A graduate of Hobart and William Smith Colleges, he is survived by his parents, Gerald and Janet, and sister Susan, as well as many aunts and uncles.
He worked on the 105th floor of the North Tower on that Day.
His mother, Janet, said “He had a wonderful, sweet disposition. Friends used to say he was the glue that held relationships together.” He was a “vegetarian who liked to box, and preferred a punch in the face over a bite of steak.”
For Andrew Golkin’s family, it wasn’t so much a question of whether to have a service, but what to call it. At 30, he was too young for them to call it “a celebration” of his life, said his sister, Susan, 34, of Manhattan. They called it simply a service in his memory. Five of his friends spoke. The rabbi who conducted his bar mitzvah officiated at the service. “There comes a time when having hope is more detrimental than coming to terms with what happened,” she said.
For her family, it was vital. “So you can know how to live the rest of your life.”
His friends and family have set up the Andrew Golkin Memorial Scholorship Fund, designed to fund and promote educational scholorship for deserving kids in NYC.
Kaddish
Glorified and sanctified be God’s great name throughout the world which He has created according to His will. May He establish His kingdom in your lifetime and during your days, and within the life of the entire House of Israel, speedily and soon; and say, Amen.
May His great name be blessed forever and to all eternity.
Blessed and praised, glorified and exalted, extolled and honored, adored and lauded be the name of the Holy One, blessed be He, beyond all the blessings and hymns, praises and consolations that are ever spoken in the world; and say, Amen.
May there be abundant peace from heaven, and life, for us
and for all Israel; and say, Amen.He who creates peace in His celestial heights, may He create peace for us and for all Israel; and say, Amen.
Where was I? On this 24th year, so many are remembering where they were and what they were doing, so as to Never Forget. The day started out like any other day, getting ready for work. I was in the shower when the radio station I was listening to said a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. I hurried through, shaved quickly, and got out. And was watching the live helicopter coverage when the 2nd plane crashed. And then the mayhem that occurred at the Pentagon, people not sure what was going on, just that there was smoke or something there, till we found out the reality. People evacuating. The Towers collapsing. The horror and pain on the faces of people in New York City. We stayed tune to a little 5 inch TV I had, which I brought to work.
Where were you? Do you remember why it’s important to never forget?
Did anyone who posts here immediately enlist after this?
Some guy using an Alias wants to trash conservatives:
I was 48 years old at the time, and already ineligible for military service due to having only one working eye. But both of my daughters enlisted, in 2009 and then in 2010, when they became old enough.
Johnny-really? That’s like asking you if you housed any illegals after the invasion, seeing as you defend them all the time. Did you?
Jill,
You and your ilk constantly flash the “hypocrisy card” for various topics. Now you object?
Shouldn’t we all stop personal attacks on the messenger and instead argue the message?
For example, “illegal” is not a noun and “invasion” was misused.
You’re referred to as Jill because you refer to commenter “Alias” as “Johnny”.
That because his former and I believe first name on this site was, you guessed it…Johnny. Very strange, I know..
ROTFLMAO!
I can’t stand it! Our madcap Missourian, saying, “Shouldn’t we all stop personal attacks on the messenger and instead argue the message?” is just too hysterically funny for words.
“Illegal” as in “illegal immigrant” is an adjective, but it is certainly true that it has become a noun through common usage.
“Invasion” is the description Jl used, and it refers to a huge crossing of our borders by people ineligible to do so. The obvious question for you is: how is that not an invasion?
We get it: you don’t like the use of the word “invasion,” because it is a politically loaded term, but it is also an accurate one. Sensible people don’t use mealy-mouthed terms like “undocumented,” the way the left do, to try to avoid the fact that the illegal immigrants are criminals.
“Shouldn’t we all stop personal attacks…
That’s all the Rimjob ever has.
Well besides TDS out the ass…
Bwaha! Lolgf!
MAGA47 Motherfucker!
I have seen him before, it’s what he does. Believes himself to be extremely clever.
https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-10/new-yorkers-born-after-911-i-know-it-was-tragic-but-i-dont-have-many-more-details.html
And that’s not even counting the tens of millions who were living in other countries back then, because they aren’t “Americans”. Thus they feel no obligations of loyalty to the USA (like modern Democrats).
I take it from your answer that you were severely triggered by my question.
Actually in the years 2010 I was living in NYC in a household of 6. 3 of which were undocumented.
It was a super cool house. The landlord refused to fix the boiler.we refused to pay rent. We heated with electricity the bill was in his name .
Pro tip!! In any argument/debate never ask a question that you do not already know the question to.
I was pretty sure jimmi that you were neither in the military nor enlisted as a result of the 9/21 attack even though at that time the army would take recruits up to 35 years
And yes the question was more directed at Teach. He would have been well within the age to enlist but chose not do so. But he is ALWAYS pointing out what he considers hypocrisy in others. We often choose to insult others for the very faults we are most ashamed of in ourselves.
Mr Pott meet Mr Kettle.
Do Teach why did you not enlist in the very war that you supported do much?
That because his former and I believe first name on this site was, you guessed it…Johnny. Very strange, I know..
No, not triggered at all, just though it quite humerous at your lack of self-awareness..
9-11-01 as it happened – Fox News Channel as Tragedy Occurred – Video
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2026/09/9-11-01-as-it-happened-fox-news-channel.html
OTTAWA (The Borowitz Report)—Calling it an effort to “restore sanity,” on Thursday Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney offered every adult American $6000 to vote against Republicans in the midterms.
The jumpers started at 8:46.
Networks had the tape. They hid Americans choosing the air over the fire.
Then they spent 25 years treating the word Islam like a crime. The footage was “too graphic.” The truth was forbidden.
This day is stamped in my heart forever…
Never forget. Never forgive.
MAGA47 Motherfuckers!
No Saudi was ever punished for financing 9//
No Saudi was ever punished for financing the Dunning resistance to the American occupation of Iraq
Was Osama bin Laden a Saudi?
Imagine a world without Islam.
“It was a cool crisp autumn day…
MAGA47 Motherfuckers!
The Other 9/11.BENGHAZI.
Never forget. Never forgive Obama and Hillary
MAGA47 Motherfuckers!
“Mamdani lays wreath at tomb of the unknown hijacker….”
BB
Never forget!
Never Forgive! Vote Red!
MAGA47 Motherfuckers!
How Bin Laden planned 9/11
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XUhsO6Pbauw