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O’Neill admired the fighting courage of this scrawny McEneaney kid. Eamon’s prediction did not come true that day, but O’Neill found himself drawn by the extraordinary Irishman’s spirit. They would be fraternity brothers at Cornell and roommates for four years in Manhattan and share a mystical trip to Ireland.
Eamon would become a treasured teammate, a godfather, a “brother” who shapes John and his family every day.
Throughout their lives together, O’Neill has always experienced Eamon as a “signpost.”
“He is that person that helps guide all of his friends and family, that shows you the best, possible path that you might have missed,” he says.
When bombs were detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in 1993, Eamon heroically guided 65 co-workers to safety. He helped colleagues form a human chain and led them from the 106th floor, through thick, black smoke, down endless stairs to safet
y below.
John O’Neill will never forget his first glimpse of Eamon McEneaney. It was the fall of 1971. John’s favored Massapequa football team traveled to Floral Park, N.Y., to face rival Sewanhaka. O’Neill’s squad wound its way through a riotous home crowd of purple and gold and took the field for warmups.
Before the Massapequa captains counted the first jumping jack, a skinny, wild-eyed demon sprinted from Sewanhaka’s ranks for a solitary invasion. With long, red locks surrounding his gap-toothed head like a ring of flame, competitive fire bubbling through every fiber of his 130-pound frame, Sewanhaka’s Wing-T QB bellowed at ’Pequa: “You guys are going down today!!!
Remembering Eamon McEneaney, A Cornell Lacrosse Great With A Heart of Gold Who Died In 9/11”
