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The Price We Pay from page 24 the remaining overhangs and moved out to the street. We the stairwell. Someplace around the 39th to 36th floors they
were told to keep walking towards Houston Street. The odd felt the same rumble I felt on the 3rd floor. It was 10am and
situation really was. My parents did. Starting around this thing is that there were very few rescue workers around. Tower 2 was coming down. They had about 30 minutes to
floor the firemen, policemen, WTC K-9 units without the Less than five. They all must have been trapped under the get out. Victor said he could no longer move. They offered
dogs, anyone with a badge, started coming up as we were debris when Tower 2 fell. We did not know that and could to have him lean on them. He said he couldn’t do it. My
heading down. I stopped a lot of them and told them about not understand where all of that debris came from. It was partner hollered at him to sit on his butt and schooch down
the man on 53 and my friend on 87. I later felt terrible about just my friend Kern and I now. We were hugging but sad. the steps. He said he was not capable of doing it. Harry told
this. They headed up to find those people and met death We felt certain that most of our friends ahead of us died my partner to go ahead of them. Harry had once had a heart
instead. and we knew no one behind us. attack and was worried about this mans heart. It was his
On the 33rd floor I spoke with a man who somehow We came upon a post office several blocks away. We nature to be this way. He was/is one of the kindest people I
knew most of the details. He said 2 small planes hit the stopped and looked up. Our building, exactly where our know. He would not leave a man behind. My partner went
building. Now we all started talking about which terrorist office is (was), was engulfed in flame and smoke. A postal ahead and made it out. He said he was out maybe 10 minutes
group it was. Was it an internal organization or an external worker said that Tower 2 had fallen down. I looked again before the building came down. This means that Harry had
one? The overwhelming but uninformed opinion was and sure enough it was gone. My heart was racing. We kept maybe 25 minutes to move Victor 36 floors.
Islamic Fanatics. Regardless, we now knew that it was not trying to call our families. I could not get in touch with my I guess they moved 1 floor every 1.5 minutes. Just a
a bomb and there were potentially more planes coming. wife. Finally I got through to my parents. Relived is not guess. This means Harry was around the 20th floor when
We understood. the word to explain their feelings. They got through to my the building collapsed. As of now 12 of 13 people are
On the 3rd floor the lights went out and we heard & felt wife, thank G-d and let her know I was alive. We sat down. accounted for. As of 6pm yesterday his wife had not heard
this rumbling coming towards us from above. I thought the A girl on a bike offered us some water. Just as she took the from him. I fear that Harry is lost. However, a short while
staircase was collapsing upon itself. It was10am now and cap off her bottle we heard a rumble. We looked up and our ago I heard that he may be alive. Apparently there is a web
that was Tower 2 collapsing next door. We did not know that. building, Tower 1 collapsed. I did not note the time but I am site with survivor names on it and his name appears there.
Someone had a flashlight. We passed it forward and left the told it was 10:30am. We had been out less than 15 minutes. Unfortunately, Ramos is not an uncommon name in New
stairwell and headed down a dark and cramped corridor to an We were mourning our lost friends, particularly the York. Pray for him and all those like him.
exit. We could not see at all. I recommended that everyone one who stayed in the office as we were now sure that he With regards to the firemen heading upstairs, I realize
place a hand on the shoulder of the person in front of them had perished. We started walking towards Union Square. that they were going up anyway. But, it hurts to know
and call out if they hit an obstacle so others would know to I was going to Beth Israel Medical Center to be looked at. that I may have made them move quicker to find my
avoid it. They did. It worked perfectly. We reached another We stopped to hear the President speaking on the radio. friend. Rationally, I know this is not true and that I am not
stairwell and saw a female officer emerge soaking wet and My phone rang. It was my wife. I think I fell to my knees the responsible one. The responsible ones are in hiding
covered in soot. She said we could not go that way it was crying when I heard her voice. Then she told me the most somewhere on this planet and damn them for making me
blocked. Go up to 4 and use the other exit. Just as we started incredible thing. My partner who had stayed behind called feel like this. But they should know that they failed in
up she said it was ok to go down instead. There was water her. He was alive and well. I guess we just lost him in the terrorizing us. We were calm. Those men and women that
everywhere. I called out for hands on shoulders again and commotion. We started jumping and hugging and shouting. went up were heroes in the face of it all. They must have
she said that was a great idea. She stayed behind instructing I told my wife that my brother had arranged for a hotel in known what was going on and they did their jobs. Ordinary
people to do that. I do not know what happened to her. midtown. He can be very resourceful in that way. I told her people were heroes too. Today the images that people around
We emerged into an enormous room. It was light but I would call her from there. My brother and I managed to the world equate with power and democracy are gone but
filled with smoke. I commented to a friend that it must be get a gypsy cab to take us home to Westchester instead. I “America” is not an image it is a concept. That concept
under construction. Then we realized where we were. It cried on my son and held my wife until I fell asleep. is only strengthened by our pulling together as a team. If
was the second floor. The one that overlooks the lobby. As it turns out my partner, the one who I thought had you want to kill us, leave us alone because we will do it by
We were ushered out into the courtyard, the one where the stayed behind was behind us with Harry Ramos, our head ourselves. If you want to make us stronger, attack and we
fountain used to be. My first thought was of a TV movie trader. This is now second hand information. They came unite. This is the ultimate failure of terrorism against The
I saw once about nuclear winter and fallout. I could not upon Victor, the heavyset man on the 53rd floor. They helped United States and the ultimate price we pay to be free, to
understand where all of the debris came from. There was him. He could barely move. My partner bravely/stupidly decide where we want to work, what we want to eat, and
at least five inches of this gray pasty dusty drywall soot on tested the elevator on the 52nd floor. He rode it down to the when & where we want to go on vacation. The very moment
the ground as well as a thickness of it in the air. Twisted sky lobby on 44. The doors opened, it was fine. He rode it the first plane was hijacked, democracy won.
steel and wires. I heard there were bodies and body parts as back up and got Harry and Victor. I don’t yet know if anyone
well, but I did not look. It was bad enough. We hid under else joined them. Once on 44 they made their way back into Adam Mayblum’s parents live in Promenade 3. 

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