NEW YORK — The World Trade Center mantra — “Never forget” — began eight years before 9/11, on a dreary winter’s afternoon in lower Manhattan.
It was 12:18 p.m. on Feb. 26, 1993, when a rental van packed by terrorist plotters with 1,200 pounds of explosives detonated in a parking garage beneath one of the twin towers, killing six people and offering a harbinger of darker things to come.
On Sunday, a memorial service at ground zero will mark the 30th anniversary of the first attack on the 110-story buildings, with its details still fresh to those who were there.
