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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.

[surrey]

I was having my morning coffee awaiting word from my daughter who was due at any time. My husband was enroute to NJ ,from L.I, but we thought he was in NYC. My son was also in The Pru in Boston. My daughter's biggest fear was that she would go into labor that day and have to go to her designated hospital in Boston. Our grandson delayed his entry into the world til the 15th. My oldest son in CA spent his morning worrying about all of us on the East coast.