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Stairway to Heaven

How Every Experience in My Life Prepared Me for the Day the World Changed

By Bob Jenkins

On the morning of September 11, 2001, Bob Jenkins was on the thirty-ninth floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center when American Airlines Flight 11 struck the building. What followed was not simply a story of survival. It was the culmination of an entire lifetime of preparation — a lifetime he didn't fully understand until he began to write it down.

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Stairway to Heaven by Bob Jenkins — book cover

Coming January 2027

About the Book

This is not a history of September 11. It is the story of one life that intersected with it.

Stairway to Heaven begins not on the thirty-ninth floor of the North Tower, but years earlier — with a frightened left-handed boy struggling to fit into a Catholic school classroom. It winds through a difficult childhood, military and boarding school, the demanding discipline of Marine Corps boot camp, the deserts of Twentynine Palms, and countless moments that seemed ordinary when they occurred.

None of those moments announced themselves as significant. They were just things that happened — a hard year, a demanding sergeant, a lesson learned the wrong way before it was learned the right way. Only much later did it become clear that they were adding up to something.

STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN is Bob's firsthand account of that morning inside the North Tower — and the story of the life that, without his knowing it, had been getting him ready.

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This is not simply a book about September 11. It is the story of everything that came before it — and what Bob finally understood when he looked back.