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On a recent Saturday morning in August, I was at the 9/11 Memorial in downtown Manhattan with my parents, walking along the pavement beneath a gray sky and small trees.
we all could deal with each other s experiences, like, we all knew what we had all been through, and just that was, like. almost, like, healthy for all of us. fill the bucket! blue team s gonna book it! fill the bucket! aah! ( shouting ) yeah! it s just awesome. i feel a bond with these campers that i don t feel with anyone back at home. i can t imagine ever straying away from this place. when i m too old to be a camper, i wanna work here. i don t wanna leave. i don t wanna grow up. camp haze! but camp doesn t suit everyone. caitlin langone is now 22. she s learned to cope with her loss alone. i don t have any friends that have this background. it makes no sense to be like, oh, my god, your dad died on 9/11? let s be friends. like, i hate that. what a horrible premise for a friendship. like, i can t stand that. i mean, this is just me, though. kaitlyn wants to safeguard her father s memory by getting a tattoo based on his police logo. ( grunting ) ow, it s hard. it s hard.
who gave their lives to save others and the terrible tragedies of those who lost those closest to them, and now from a new documentary we will hear from the children who have spent the last ten years without their parents. one is kate langone whose father was a police officer and volunteer firefighter. when you are 12, it is difficult to understand that you will never see daddy again and you will never see him or touch him or anything. it is all gone, forever. caitlin joins me here in the studio, and janet southerland is the producer of the children of 9/11 and joining us from london, and tell me about what about dad? dad was tall and physically, he was tall and gray hair and in the early 30ss when he had gray hair so people made fun of him. he had a great sense of humor and he would say better gray than nay, and stunning blue eyes which i wish i got, but i didn t.
the dead parent proud of them, and that is so in contradiction to what you hear about, because these children are remarkable and resilient and i hope you take away some uplifting stories about how children deal with grief. caitlin, have you bounded with the children of others that we lost on september 11th? well, of course, with my brother, we shared that experience obviously. my two cousins also lost their father, my uncle peter passed away in the north tower the same day, so with them i m close, and i was never one, i m not much of a joiner, so i never went to the camps that were set up for the 9/11 victims. i had a girl in my high school who also lost her father and we weren t friends before and not after, because i did not want a friendship that was identified by this identity. so if you want to be friends with caitlin langone, and she lost her dad and so did i, and i