Todd with family
Todd with family
Wedding photo
Todd with his wife and son
Todd and his son Ben
Todd and his son
Family picture
Todd and his family
Todd with family
Todd with family
Todd with loved ones
Todd and his family
Family photo
Todd with family
Todd and his brother on his wedding day
Todd, his wife, and son at his old school Colgate
Todd and the boys in his family
Todd with college friends
Todd with Colgate friends
Todd and his newborn son
Todd and his son
Todd with his wife Megan, son Ben, and daughter Annie
Todd and Ben on Halloween
Todd with Ben and Annie
Todd, Megan, and Bennett
Todd with Bennett on vacation
Todd, Megan, Bennett, and Annie
Todd, Megan, Bennett, and Annie on the fourth
Todd with his children Bennett and Annie
Todd and Bennett
Megan and Bennett
Megan and Bennett
Family hanging by the pool
Memorial flag
Todd's Colgate soccer hat
Wedding photo
Todd and his wife Megan's wedding photo
Todd and Megan's wedding photo
Todd and Megan on their wedding day
Wedding photo
Todd and Megan's Wedding
Todd dancing with his mom at his wedding
Tribute to Todd
The Todd D. Pelino Memorial Fund
Todd's prayer card
Todd's prayer card
Todd's business card
Todd golfing
Todd playing soccer
soccer photo
High school soccer photo
Todd playing soccer
Soccer picture of Todd
Todd teaching Bennett how to golf
Todd mini golfing with Bennett
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Not a household name, not a famous man. A 34-year-old New Jersey guy, Todd was an ordinary American like you and me. But his is one of 2,996 names that will forever be connected with the worst terrorist attack on our nation's soil. Todd died on September 11, 2001, at the World Trade Center in New York City.
Todd was a power broker at Cantor Fitzgerald. He was an all-American guy. Talented athlete. Graduate of Colgate University. Married six years to Megan Pezzuti. Father of two. In fact, that fateful day began with a tender phone call to his young son, as reported by the Rochester News:
Two hours before the terrorist attack, Todd D. Pelino called his 2-year-old son from his office in the World Trade Center to wish him well on his first day of nursery school.
The next time the Pittsford native called, he was telling his wife, Megan, that he loved her and their two young children, and he would try to get down from the 107th floor of the burning building.
''In some respects she gets some solace from knowing that she talked to him,'' said his father, Douglas Pelino.
New York Times Portraits of Grief
You always found Todd D. Pelino surrounded by the children. Fatherly — that was him, his wife's girlfriends said. The other men kidded him for it, though they knew in their hearts that it was true.
They were five couples, with nine kids among them, whose houses were close but not too close. Home was Fair Haven, N.J. Work was Wall Street, Cantor Fitzgerald, and it was tougher than the muddiest soccer match Mr. Pelino, 34, ever played at Colgate. Come Saturdays at 5 p.m., Todd and Megan Pelino put their children, Bennett, 2, and Annie, 9 months, into a double stroller and wheeled them to the red- brick church down Hance Road, where they sat with other young families in a back pew.
"Once he did say to me that he was praying for life and everything to be as good as it is now, meaning then," said Ms. Pelino, whose sister, Kaleen Pezzuti, was also killed in the Sept. 11 attack. "We hoped there would be more kids. He was always first to hold the newborns. My friends said, `Of all these guys, Todd is the natural father.' "
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