Growing up, he made a point of zigging where his father zagged.  “He was a Cowboys fan, I’m an Eagles fan,” he says. “He was a Yankees fan, so I’m a Mets fan.”

He has sweeter memories too. Like the day his father took the family to the Land of Make Believe amusement park. Or the games of hide-and-seek his father would play with R.J. and his older sister after coming from his office at the World Trade Center.

Of his accounting career, he says: “I just found my way there.” But he assumes he inherited his father’s analytical mind and aptitude for numbers — and that in his work, as everything else, his father is a part of him. “It feels full circle even though he didn’t have any influence over what I did,” he says.

Like Hennessey, John Candela was four when his father was killed. The elder Candela, also named John, was a senior stock trader at Cantor. He was 42.

Today, at 24, his son remembers how his father once surprised his grandmother with a new refrigerator; how, after rain storms, he would drive around the neighborhood picking up fallen branches; how he kept a bowl of candy on his desk at Cantor.

“He was a people person,” Candela says of his dad. He remembers him as “the most generous, fun-loving guy, who would always put his family first before anything else.”

Candela says his father had intended to study music until his own father, young John’s grandfather, persuaded him to pursue another avenue. But the work was lucrative enough to support the family and, in fact, shaped his parents’ lives: For their first date, John Candela hired a limousine to whisk his future wife, Elizabeth, to Windows on the World, the restaurant atop the World Trade Center’s North Tower.

Candela doesn’t know whether his dad loved his work. He just knew he wanted to be like him.

“Most kids say they want to be a firefighter or a police officer or a NASCAR driver,” Candela says. “But I wanted to do what my dad did.”

After attending Muhlenberg College, he interned at Arcview Capital, which focuses on industries like cannabis, biotech and media. Last year he parlayed the experience into a full-time job there. He says he thought of his father when he made his first cold call to a potential client. “I want to be the best version of myself for him,” Candela says. “Obviously, there is a part of me that wants to make him proud.”