NYC-WTC_000230748

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

THE NEWYork times, mondaY October 29,2001

or a niece, around her waist. “Mayfe” the reality could sink Into my hea^'"’ she said. Some people tossed flowers ovfr' the railing. Others, simply looted” One woman, wearing her husbanciV photo clipped to her jacket like,an’ Identification badge, came off 11/6; stage, turned to a fireman £fnd 'of­ fered him her hand. I To some, fraternity was as impor-' ! tant as location. I "When we got there we thought,'; ; there’s nothing to look at here,” said; 1 Carolyn Staub. "There’s a truck,J, there’s a crane, so what? But once it! started it didn’t matter. There was the rnusic, the words and the people around us.” Ms. Staub, who lost her brother, 5 / Cr^ig, said she and her family did not, need to speak to others. "There was, a silent understanding,” she said, i- And the experience, she said/' ■ eased the burden for her mother^ who had been reluctant to plan tr , time for the family to say goodbye, to, her son, ; f "Now she has an understanding of S ■ what a memorial can do for her and’ ■ 'now she wants to do that for him,'"/ 'Ms. Staub said. "Before, she was’ ' doing it because she was supposed to, . J But now her heart is in it.” -) J.?. I

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