First World Trade Center bombing, overshadowed by 9/11, is remembered on 25th anniversary
NEW YORK - On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Rita Schwartz was running late for a breakfast meeting at Windows on the World, the restaurant at the top of the World Trade Center. The woman she was meeting decided to leave.
That woman was one of the last people out of the restaurant, Schwartz said, before two airplanes that had been hijacked by al-Qaida operatives hit the Twin Towers.
Eight and a half years earlier, Schwartz had also gotten lucky.
On Feb. 26, 1993, Schwartz, who worked in government relations for the
