--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: Stanley Praimnath image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt35118b9c6e23a2ba/6988a49bab6d7724436ab1a6/stanley-praimnath.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Sep 07, 2016 # Stanley Praimnath by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  Stanley Praimnath Survivor, World Trade Center south tower, 81st floor Stanley Praimnath Survivor, World Trade Center south tower, 81st floorMarco Grob for TIME “I looked at the site when I visited the last time there, and I watched that building, and I was happy. You could knock me down, you could beat me up, but I’m going to get up and fight again. You may tear down this building that I live in, but I’ll make a bigger one. I’ll make a better one.” Stanley Praimnath ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/beyond-911/4476652/stanley-praimnath-beyond-9-11/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/beyond-911/4476652/stanley-praimnath-beyond-9-11/"},"headline":"Stanley Praimnath","datePublished":"2016-09-07T21:13:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-07-08T07:54:08.756Z","description":"Survivor, World Trade Center south tower, 81st floor","url":"https://time.com/collections/beyond-911/4476652/stanley-praimnath-beyond-9-11/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt35118b9c6e23a2ba/6988a49bab6d7724436ab1a6/stanley-praimnath.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt35118b9c6e23a2ba/6988a49bab6d7724436ab1a6/stanley-praimnath.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/beyond-911/4476652/stanley-praimnath-beyond-9-11/","name":"Stanley Praimnath"}}]}] ```