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And this is a very big burden. but i feel this event is going to reshape the world into a better place. you know, and we will gain something from it, but we have to be patient. >> im sorry, you got to go. go. >> lets go. lets go. >> at this point, i looked at my mom and my family and i was like this is crazy, lets get out of here. lets go. you know, i thought we should just maybe start walking away from the world trade center because what if it fell, and i said that, and everybody started to cal...

Resiliency. we can -- you can survive all kinds of things. wars and famines and all kinds of hardships that human beings go through. >> find a spot. >> and then once were surviving, you know, we struggle to like, you know, be happy. and thats something else. its just learning to be okay with not okay, learning to kind of embrace that discomfort and being okay with discomfort. until -- until it -- until it passes. >> i think thats about it. >> thank you. >> i think thats good.

And i started realizing our common humanism. that, hey, were not so different from each other. i mean, i became so immersed in it that i changed my complete perspective. i was like, i am not leaving here without having done something positive and something good because i felt like im working for my brothers. and i could tell they felt the same way about me. >> when i sit back and i reflect on the reality that 20 years ago someone actually tried to murder

Blurted out as loud as i could, if you hear my voice, youre still alive, every man get your face under your shirt right now, come on do it, do it. >> true spirits rising from the earth, what i feel though i wish can now be reversed. the terrorists know can never defeat of the peace that we share and the people we love. thank you. share and the people we love thank you. >> well try and talk to some of these guys. >> this is the scene in lower manhattan where the upper floors of the world trade ce...

Helicopters will save him. maybe hes already escaped. but he must have gone past that fire because hes alive, and hes going to come home to me. and its a story that well tell to each other and to his children, my grandchildren in the future. e future >> hi, my name is lisa knapp, and today is september 10th, 2002. i basically spent the past 364 days trying to avoid what happened. just because im not ready, and i thought maybe this would be the best way to do it, so this is kind of a therapy for ...

You know, i wasnt good at it. and, so, i remember walking back in to work probably about two weeks later. im a social worker by trade for girls that couldnt live at home. gradually throughout the day, one by one would come in and check in and say hello and they would give me a hug, nod at me. for these girls, a brother being randomly killed on a beautiful tuesday wasnt unusual. many of them have lost brothers, siblings, cousins, parents. they got it. they understood. they knew i wasnt fixed or h...

Done to people when they couldnt tell their own story in their own words. it was just planes, planes, planes, building down, building down. there was absolutely no space for more complicated stories about what people actually felt. >> so this is it. >> well, go check to see. i just clicked it. go check to see if it went up. >> we wanted to bust open a space for that. >> you can see were in action. n >> once people went inside the booths, they controlled the recording. they controlled their own s...

>> across the street. >> people say that its chaos down there on the scene, and eyewitnesss say that the plane actually seems to be in the building. >> can your brain register? i cant register. >> at this point, i thought, oh, this is just a fire. thats not so bad. there will be scaffolding on the world trade center for years, and theyll fix it. but then i saw my dad on the sidewalk, and he turned around and he was crying. and he was hysterical, and ive never really seen my dad cry. and he said,...

And it wasnt anything like i had planned because it was so close to this tragedy, it was totally different. and i feel in certain aspects quite gloomy. >> i read an account that a man gave about losing his son. and he said that one of the biggest changes for him was that he no longer actively looks for happiness, but if it comes to him unsolicited, he embraces it. and i think thats what happened to us. >> father in heaven, we are hurting. >> it was in october.

So we have something of him to bury. it certainly isnt enough. but its something. its a torture that stays with you. and there are people that can get out from underneath it, god bless them. i know i cant. >> i always believed that every day should be treasured and that everybody deserves a chance and that everybody is equal. i didnt use the word "hate." i now use it with every fiber of my being, and i hate that i do. on september 21st, i gave birth.