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Happiest moments - Manhattan - September 11
The photos of the missing were never passport photos... They were photos of the people at their happiest, at weddings, parties, holding babies.... That is how people want to remember them, not as statistics or how they spent their last day... Terribly sad...
 

 
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JulianLA (still) / Saturday, 18th January 2003
The lost lives include that of Sanae Mori, a 27-year-old Japanese computer systems analyst who had arrived in New York from Tokyo only the day before with her colleague, Suguru Yamamoto, as representatives of Nomura Research Institute, the research arm of Japan's largest brokerage house. They had traveled to New York for a conference on information technology. Mori and at least 21 other Japanese nationals were still missing.
JulianLA (still) / Saturday, 18th January 2003
Spit and Polish, With Humor
During the 15 years he spent in the Honorable Artillery Company in Britain's version of the National Guard, Simon J. Turner learned that there was only one way of doing things — the right way.
When Mr. Turner and his wife, Elizabeth, started renovating a four-bedroom Edwardian house they bought in London last year, he continued doing things in the same regimented way, leaving no detail to chance.
Mr. Turner, 39, spent months looking for the right cast-iron radiator for the house. Mrs. Turner said she, too, got caught up in his pursuit of perfection. "There I was, five months pregant, on my knees wirewooling the hardwood floors," she said.
Henry Perks, a close friend and co-worker at the Risk Waters Group, where Mr. Turner was publishing director in charge of New York operations, said he applied the same standards to everything he did. "Simon was someone who was certain that there was a right way of doing things," Mr. Perks said.
But he was not all spit and polish. When someone at work asked the prospective father, "What are you hoping for?" Mr. Turner replied, "I'm hoping for a Dalmation puppy, but I think Elizabeth has her heart set on a baby."
With that, they began calling the baby Spot, a family joke that lasted through early September, when Mr. Turner flew to New York to be the host of a big conference at the Windows on the World restaurant on Sept. 11.
The baby was born on Nov. 14.
His name is William.
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