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...understand that he wants to bridge the gap,” says Clifford S. Davidson ’02, co-chair of BOND, a BGLT group focusing on social support and outreach. “What he wants to do after he bridges the gap…that remains to be seen.” He adds: “We’re all being very cautious about this...
...brief moments on Tuesday morning, Irish architect Ronnie Clifford, 47, was twice blessed: as both hero and survivor of the terrorist attacks. Standing in the lobby of the Marriott Hotel after the first plane hit, Clifford saw a charred woman rise from the pyre, her fingernails melting off and her clothes burned onto her skin. He was shielding her with his coat when a second shudder sent them to the floor. To keep her from drifting off, they conversed and prayed. She told him her name, Jennieann Maffeo, and the name and number of her boss at Paine Webber...
Only then did he learn he was also thrice cursed. He had lost family members: Clifford's sister, Ruth McCourt, 45, and his niece Juliana, 4, had been aboard the United Airlines flight that plowed through 2 World Trade Center. He had also lost a family friend: Paige Farley Hackel, 46, who was meeting McCourt in Los Angeles but traveling separately on the American Airlines flight that crashed into the other tower. Hackel, a spiritual counselor, was heading to Los Angeles for a seminar with Deepak Chopra. McCourt was taking her daughter on a surprise trip to Disneyland...
...midst of his own grief, Clifford found the number of Maffeo's boss and called to say she was alive but in very bad shape. Her boss then contacted the family, who eventually found her in critical condition at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, burned over so much of her body that the doctors required the family to put on scrubs before seeing her. When they were finally reunited, Maffeo insisted that they track down the man who saved...
Consoling his brother-in-law in Connecticut and his family back in Ireland, Clifford received a phone call from Maffeo's sister. Clifford told her about his own losses in the crash. The sister gave Clifford the family's thanks for putting himself at risk to be her sister's savior. Clifford replied that she had it wrong--he never would have made it out of the building before it collapsed if he had not picked up her sister. "The truth is, she saved my life, she gave me strength," says Clifford. He also believes his sister Ruth's hovering...