The Kindergarten Dropoff That Saved a Life on 9/11

Brandon Lutnick recalled the family losses that shaped his childhood after the Sept. 11 attacks — including the deaths of his uncle and godfather — as Cantor Fitzgerald marked 25 years since 658 of its New York employees were killed.

“I don’t remember 9/11. I was three years old. What I remember is everything that came after,” Lutnick, now chairman of Cantor Fitzgerald, wrote in a LinkedIn post Friday.

His father, then CEO Howard Lutnick, survived because he was dropping off Brandon’s older brother Kyle for his first day of kindergarten instead of his usual routine heading straight to Cantor’s offices high in the World Trade Center’s North Tower.