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Locals discuss
9-11 film
BY VICKI KNOPFLER
ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
HIGH POINT – Rick Fritz
won’t see “World
Trade Center,”
the Oliver Stone movie that opened Wednesday night.
“It will bother me,” the battalion
chief with the High Point Fire Department said with what seemed to be a
knot in his throat. “My wife won’t let me go, either, because she knows it
will bother me.” Fritz had multiple friends who died Sept. 11, 2001, trying
to save lives at the World Trade Center
in New York.
Two were particularly close
friends: Lt. Andrew Fredericks and Lt. Billy Mc Guinn, both with Squad 18
of the Fire Department of New York. Fritz met them through the Fire Department
Instructors Conference and by teaching.
“A lot of people say, ‘Remember
9/11.’ I never forgot. I think about them every day,” Fritz said.
The movie stars Nicolas Cage and Michael Pena as New York Port
Authority police officers who were among the first to enter the World Trade Center
buildings and among the last to be pulled out alive
24 hours later.
Locally, it’s being shown at
Palladium Cinemas 14 at 5830 Samet Drive.
Critics are praising the
FILM, 2A
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