Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Iconic 'DustyLady,' 9/11 survivor Dies of Stomach Cancer

                         'Dust lady': This photograph taken of Marcy Borders after she fought her way out of 1 World Trade Center became one of the most enduring images of the 9/11 attacks. Borders passed away on Monday of cancer

Marcy Border the woman who was photographed covered with pulverized concrete and dust as she fled the world trade center September 9th 2001 has died on Monday of stomach cancer aged 42 leaving behind two children.
Marcy Border was 28 years when she worked for the Bank of America on the 81st floor of the world trade center,she fled when the first plane hit the first tower,she was on the ground floor when the second plane hit the second Tower, she was photographed by AFP Stan Honda as she was running for safety.she became known as the dusty lady.
She was diagnosed of Stomach cancer August 2014,a situation she blamed on the dust from the pulverized concrete.


                        Survivor: Marcy Borders, seen here in her New Jersey apartment in 2002, believed the dust and ash from the Twin Towers was the reason she came to contract cancer

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