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The day the world changed

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In the early hours of Sept 11, 2001, Kathy Comerford was getting ready for a usual Tuesday staff meeting at her office on the 70th floor of the World Trade Center’s South Tower. That beautiful morning took a dangerous turn when a hijacked jetliner struck the building between floors 93 and 99, causing the tower to eventually collapse less than an hour later. Along with a small team of her co-workers at Morgan Stanley investment banking company, they barely escaped with their lives.

“The first sign of trouble was when the first plane hit. At first we thought it was a transformer blowing, but then what we saw was all fire and things. Because there were all the windows, there was tons of debris and things happening outside the window. Immediately, we…

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