This speech was delivered to Japanese Delegates of the ‘Peace Boat’, which included Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors, in Battery Park on Friday, August 8 before walking to the WTC site on August 8th, 2003
On September 11th, 2001, my husband Sean called me from the 105th floor of the World Trade Center. The fates, in their mercy, granted us enough time to say what we needed to say to each other before the building collapsed and he was carried to his death.
On September 11th, 2001, my husband Sean became something very alien to the America experience. He became a