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"It was the most horrible experience ever – worse than a war because it made no sense. You can rationalize some things, but to me this was unacceptable." --Dominick Antonelli
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"Fitch closed for a week, although we tried to operate through email and internet. When we finally re-opened, it took me a year before I could walk up to the towers." --Dick Larkin
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"When the World Trade Center was being built my dad used to take my sister and me to watch the building because it was built by bonds." --Alexandra Lebenthal
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Cranes remove rubble from Ground Zero 10 days after the attack.
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"I can't go anywhere without hearing a funny story – he had such an amazing relationship with anyone he came across – people tell me funny stories of what he did and how he was the life of the party." -- Matthew Picerno Jr. discussing his father, Matthew (in photo), a Cantor Fitzgerald limited partner and municipal bond broker who died on Sept. 11.
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"[My daughter was in pre-school at Trinity Church]. I had to get her out of the school. When the second tower went down, I grabbed my daughter and we went on the subway. Thinking back, it might not have been the smartest decision, but it worked." --Howard Cure
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"When we got to the lobby, it looked like night outside. We were standing in the small, hot lobby until we were told to go to a lower level…[Later] we were given T-shirts and told that before going out we should wet them and use them to cover our faces. It looked like it had snowed … about two inches of white powder covered the street." --Gary Siegel
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"I was driving on the FDR Drive headed to Brooklyn, to the appellate court. I was on the drive when I saw the second plane hit. I pulled over to a side street and repeated. The town went into immediate gridlock. The panic set off people going uptown as quickly as they could. It took me three hours to go from 19th Street to East 90th Street, where I lived." --Jerry Kremer
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"I recall telling people that we would get their ratings as soon as we were back up and running. But, because that day was so surreal, it was hard to imagine when that time would be." --Peter Block
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"Would residents and businesses pack up and leave? There was discussion over whether it would be safe for the financial industry to be concentrated in such a small geographic area … There was real concern about another fiscal crisis. We were going through a dot-com recession even before we went through the shock of 9/11." --Ronnie Lowenstein
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"Obviously, it was a shock that we would experience such an attack on our homeland. It was a big blow. We're still in a bit of shock." --Scott Frantz
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Reflecting pool at Ground Zero commemorates Sept. 11 victims.
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