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I had just brought my newborn daughter home from the hospital that day, when my brother called to tell me to turn on the TV.

Spent the rest of the day trying to get news about two of my other brother, sister, and sister-in-law who all worked downtown. My sister-in-law worked in WTC7 and I didn't find out she was OK until the afternoon.

I expected to find out some friends died, but I was lucky. All my close friends got out of the area OK. One friend got a nasty hole in his back from debris in the collapse, but he's fine.

I found out later that a few former coworkers of mine were killed. I worked with them at Marsh & McLennan in midtown. After I left the company, they moved the department to the WTC, up around the 90th floor. I don't know how they died, I just hope it was quick. And I definitely hope they didn't have to jump.

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Happy 2nd birthday to your daughter.

I was working in downtown Boston in the shadow of the Prudential center, one of the highest buildings in the city. my crew was on coffee break when we heard the news of the first. they turned on the tv, and we all saw the second live.

As we were doing heavy construction, and about to lift a huge rebar cage, we decided it was safest for us to hold off, because of the fear of another strike in boston, and the fact that NOBODY could think about work.

My sister was working in NYC, and I didn't find out she was OK until she walked home at 9 that night. She saw the second strike from the bus she was on.

My other sister worked for merrill lynch right near ground zero, but had been tranferred a couple months earlier.

One of the guys I work with, Henry, was in Italy on a well deserved vacation when he heard the news. He lost his oldest daughter at the wtc.