Wednesday was a day to remember and reflect for New Yorkers who lost family, friends and colleagues in the city’s first terror attack.

“He was murdered,” said Judy Shirtz, whose brother-in-Law died in 1993 the World Trade Center Bombing. “Nothing could ever change that the heartbreak and the tears are still here.”

Shirtz’s brother-in-law was one of four Port Authority officers who died in the bombing that day.

“Twenty-seven years ago, I was supposed to meet him at the Trade Center to go see my mother dying of cancer in the hospital. Instead, we got the phone call that he was dead,” Shirtz said.

As it does every year on this day, the Port Authority honored the six people and an unborn child who died in that attack. First, it starts with a memorial mass in Midtown in the morning, a moment of silence, and then a reading of the victims’ names in the afternoon at the 9/11 Memorial Plaza.

Eight years before the September 11 attack, Islamic terrorists tried to topple the twin towers. On February 26 1993, a cold, snowy day, they set off a 1,200 pound truck bomb in the parking garage below the North Tower.

Now-retired Port Authority Assistant Chief Norma Hardy was working at the World Trade Center that day when the bomb detonated.

(AP Photo/Betsy Herzog, File)

“It took us awhile to get out because, where we were located was beneath where the bomb went off. We were really trapped in our area,” said Hardy. “I spent the rest of the day with my colleagues just getting people out of the building and trying to save as many people as we good.”

The 9/11 attack has overshadowed that first attempt to bring down the Trade Center. The Port Authority hopes this day is a reminder to New Yorkers of the sacrifice the city’s first responders made back in 1993, and every day serving the city.

“We owe a large debt of gratitude to them and respect what they do every day and part of that is a reflection of here today,” said Kevin O’Toole, the Port Authority chairman.

On days like today we are told to never forget. For the families of the victims, forgetting is impossible.

 “Time doesn’t help. You learn to cope with it. But you never forgive and you never forget,“ said Judy Shirtz.