Playing Card, Recovered
- Description
- Two of clubs playing card with handwritten note: "9-11 | Stand the Hazard of the Die | W.S." The card is wrinkled with a few puncture marks.
- Historical Notes
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Lieutenant Mickey Kross was still descending stairwell B, having reached the third floor of the North Tower, when the building collapsed, killing almost all above and below this floor. A few hours later, Kross, one civilian, a PAPD officer, and 11 other members of the FDNY who also had been trapped emerged into a landscape of twisted steel and rubble.
Disoriented, Kross picked up a playing card lying in the debris, the only thing that looked recognizable and undamaged. He came to view the playing card as a symbol of luck. A self-described William Shakespeare buff, Kross later wrote on the face of the card, "Stand the hazard of the die," the initials W.S., and the date.
- Accession Number: C.2006.12.7
- Dimensions: 5 in X 0.25 in
- Dimensions (Metric): 12.7 cm X 0.635 cm
- Source: Mickey Kross
- Credit Line: Gift of Mickey Kross
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