PATRICK ADAMS: Greetings for `The
Boys'
When Patrick Adams would return home from work at Fuji
Bank, he would greet not only his family, but the fish in
the aquarium at the Adamses' apartment in Flatbush,
Brooklyn, said his daughter Balynda Adams. "He would come
home and say to them, `How are you doing?' " she said.
"He would call them `the boys.' "
Mr. Adams, 61, was a security officer in Fuji's
offices in 2 World Trade Center, working on the 81st
floor. After one of the hijacked airliners struck the
building and ignited a raging fire, "he called and said
he was trapped in the World Trade Center," Ms. Adams
said. "We got it on the answering machine."
"He was basically a family man," Ms. Adams said. "He
would make sure everything is O.K., everybody is happy."
As for his relationship with marine life, it was not
limited to the home aquarium. "He liked fishing, and
would go to Connecticut to fish," his daughter said.
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