Word: towered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...McMillan was racing downtown, Michelle March, 29, an emergency medical technician, was heading into Manhattan in her ambulance. She was among the first EMTs to arrive in front of the south tower. Then hell descended, and March ran. "I noticed that the debris was picking people up and slamming them into buildings. So I grabbed a pole and held on for dear life," even as the oddments of a skyscraper struck her. "I told God, 'I'm not dying today,' so I held on no matter how many bricks were hitting me. I felt ash go down my throat...
Roko Camaj owned the most enviable views in New York City. As a window cleaner for the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, his work space offered staggering panoramas of the city he adopted when he arrived from Montenegro in 1969. Most days, he surveyed the surroundings from indoors, operating a remote cleaning machine from the rooftop; but the windows on the 107th floor could not accommodate the machine, and he would attend to them manually, suspended from a harness. Camaj, 60, was on the observation deck on the 107th floor in 1993 when a bomb hit the building...
...there's nothing metaphorical about what happened to Genelle Guzman, 31, an office manager who worked on the 64th floor of Tower 1. She called her boyfriend, Roger McMillan, just after the blast and told him she was waiting at her desk, as instructed over the loudspeaker. McMillan, 38, a pressman for a direct-mail company, could see the explosions from his workplace, and told her to get out and meet him in front of Century 21, a discount fashion emporium across from the Trade Center...
...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...
...call you again. But if not, I want you to have fun. I want you to live your life. I know I'll see you someday." Eight minutes later, after Sweeney made the extemporaneous speech of his life, his plane crashed into the World Trade Center's south tower...