Jaime Amoroso lost her husband who worked for Port Authority Police at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. A photograph showed him rescuing a woman that day, but her identity remained a mystery until now.
"As time went on, I started to think maybe he didn't save her, or get her far enough, because we had never found her or had anybody ever spoken to her," Jaime said.
Maisel also never found the woman in his photo. But out of thousands of social media posts in tribute to 9/11 victims before the attacks' 20th anniversary, someone identified the woman as his mother. Dhamija was working in the tower at the time. She now lives in India and she still remembers what Officer Amoroso said to her that day 20 years ago.
"I always felt bad because I have lived my life, and he was still so young," Dhamija said. She's now a grandmother and Amoroso is still on her mind. "I can't believe she's alive. I can't believe she has the same face," Jaime said."She's the last person with him. He went in with a purpose, to want to save as many people as possible. The fact that I get to hear somebody say it."
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