Destruction vivid for those with Peninsula ties

Plumes of smoke rose from the debris that once was the twin towers of the World Trade Center.

A thick dust-ash mixture coated everything within blocks of the two buildings destroyed in Tuesday’s terrorist attack.

New Yorkers ran screaming.

Former Joyce resident Andy Duncan said Tuesday those images will remain vivid to him for years to come.

A computer consultant currently living in Rutherford, N.J., the 38-year-old Duncan works less than a mile from the World Trade Center. At the time of the attack, Duncan was in the subway, on his way to meet a client at an office near the World Trade Center.

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