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Oh, sh!t. I think I know who this "Victor" was. I have a very close associate back in New York who lost a cousin in the attack last week, and from what I've been told this was the guy.

Adam, Harry, and anyone else who put themselves at risk to help him -- My hat's off to you, and "long may you run."

I am amazed at how brave and calm all of these people were.I suppose there is the element of shock that takes over and we go on automatic.
Thanks for sharing yet another story of survival among so much death. I do hope this man knows soon that he is not at fault, he is a REAL victim.

Thank you.

Heroes all!

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What can be said.

What an amazing story! There are more fantastic stories that I have seen on TV, another one of a manager leading many of his co-workers to safety.

I also saw an interview of the man who "rubble surfed" down from one of the floors in the eithties...absolutly miraculous...

GREAT story. Thanks for posting. A couple from our church, Pete and Stephanie, escaped harm pretty miraculously. They both work in the city - Pete on the 92nd floor of Tower 2 and Stephanie a few blocks uptown, so they ride the Path into the WTC and part ways under it.

Which is exactly what they did last Tues. Pete headed upstairs to his office and Stephanie started walking uptown. Before she got to work she heard the first plane hit Tower 1 and immediately started running back toward the WTC.

Meanwhile, Pete just had enough time to get to his office when the first plane hit the opposite tower. He and a bunch of other people started down right away, which saved their lives - they had reached about the mid 50s when the second plane hit their tower. Pete estimates that if he had waited even 5 more minutes, he would have been right in its path, or close enough to be fatal.

Stephanie by this time was pretty frantically searching for him, both towers collapsed while she wandered around looking, going from hospital to hospital hoping against hope, til about 3 pm when they suddenly spotted each other on the street! In all that confusion and congestion of people. Can you imagine the reunion?

My husband ran into Pete at the store the other night and Pete said not a scratch on him, other than his legs were still sore from running down 90 flights of stairs in an hour.

I'm feeling some gratitude myself, as my husband worked downtown until six months ago. His office was in the Woolworth Building and he used to take the Path into the WTC also. I must have received half a dozen phone calls from people who thought he might still work there.

Thanks for sharing your story. May God Bless You. And may America never forget what happened on 9-11-01.

Thanks. Got a big lump in my throat. God Bless America.

Great Story - you are a Band of Brothers

Just posted this to the:

Attack on America - THE Day of Infamy Site.

It's the "Fourth Eyewitness Account".