Firefighter Kenneth Watson
Engine 214

Laid to Rest
on November 9, 2001

He Built Skyscrapers, Then Joined the FDNY November 18, 2001

She met him at Smithtown High School when they were 15. Sweethearts through their awkward teens. Marriage and children. He became an iron worker and then a New York City firefighter. She waited at home while he hunted deer, rode horses and took their four children on camping trips. She rooted for him when he played softball with his firefighter buddies. A truck from Kenneth T. Watson's Engine Co. 214 in Bedford-Stuyvesant dropped him off at the corner of Liberty and Church streets, near the south tower, at 9:38 a.m. on Sept. 11.

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