9/11 Remembered: Brooklyn girl honors Dad with WWE Career
Thea Trinidad Lives Out WWE Dream They Shared
As America approaches the unhappiest of anniversaries on Thursday, Sept. 11, the pain felt by so many from the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center in 2001 remains extremely fresh to former Brooklyn resident Thea Trinidad.
Trinidad, a professional wrestler, fitness model and aspiring actress who has performed to sold-out crowds in Brooklyn, was just 10 years old on that sunny September morning when she learned that her father Michael, a telecommunications analyst at Cantor Fitzgerald, would be among the nearly 3,000 Americans to lose their lives that day.
“It really does feel like yesterday,” she told the Brooklyn Eagle, her voice echoing disbelief that, in fact, 13 years had passed since her father died a hero on the 103rd floor of the World Trade Center’s North Tower.