Friday, September 08, 2006
From the ashes of 9/11, religious inspiration - MSNBC
... Ari Schonbrun, 49, an executive at Cantor Fitzgerald brokerage, should have been in his office on the 101st floor at 8:46 that morning, but he was running late because he had stayed at home to finish a book order with his 8-year-old son. Nobody on that floor of the north tower was heard from after the impact of American Airlines Flight 11.
Instead, Schonbrun was changing elevators in the 78th floor sky lobby, where he encountered a horribly burned co-worker, Virginia DiChiara. Schonbrun helped his injured colleague down 78 flights of stairs and out to the street, where she insisted he accompany her in the ambulance to the hospital. Schonbrun is convinced it was another decision that saved his life.
“Otherwise I would have been sitting at the base of the building when the building came down," he said. "I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that had I not gotten into the ambulance that day I would be dead."
Schonbrun said 9/11 didn’t change him immediately, but it wasn't long before he found things seemed profoundly different.
“All those things that happened during the course of the day to me just reconfirmed to me that somebody was looking out for me that day," he said recently. ...
... Ari Schonbrun, 49, an executive at Cantor Fitzgerald brokerage, should have been in his office on the 101st floor at 8:46 that morning, but he was running late because he had stayed at home to finish a book order with his 8-year-old son. Nobody on that floor of the north tower was heard from after the impact of American Airlines Flight 11.
Instead, Schonbrun was changing elevators in the 78th floor sky lobby, where he encountered a horribly burned co-worker, Virginia DiChiara. Schonbrun helped his injured colleague down 78 flights of stairs and out to the street, where she insisted he accompany her in the ambulance to the hospital. Schonbrun is convinced it was another decision that saved his life.
“Otherwise I would have been sitting at the base of the building when the building came down," he said. "I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that had I not gotten into the ambulance that day I would be dead."
Schonbrun said 9/11 didn’t change him immediately, but it wasn't long before he found things seemed profoundly different.
“All those things that happened during the course of the day to me just reconfirmed to me that somebody was looking out for me that day," he said recently. ...
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