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Twenty-four years ago this month, terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes and crashed two of them into the Twin Towers in New York City.

Elizabeth Miller's father rushed in to help.

He was part of an elite firefighting company from Staten Island called Rescue Five.

He'd previously been an electrician and had joined Rescue Five just a few years before.

To have reached that, like, prestige in a sense, only six years on the job, I think just speaks to

his dedication and how much he really loved it.

Doug Miller died when the towers collapsed that day. He was 34 years old. His daughter Liz was six,

and she can still picture him.

Sometimes I can't tell what's my own memory and what's relived through other people or through

home videos because my mom used to like follow us around with a camera when we were kids.

So there's actually a lot of footage of my dad, which is really great.

Miller clearly remembers one funny thing her firefighter dad used to do with her and her two siblings.

Him tying this, like, white, like thick rope around me and my sister's waist separately

and hanging us over the banister

and out the bedroom window of my parents' bedroom out of the house. And it was like these

practice fire drills. And the neighbors would be like, Doug, what are you doing? He's like,

oh, we're just practicing, having fun. So he made, he made everything fun, even if it was something as serious as like practicing for a fire drill.

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