Transcript Slide 1

He could never leave me
behind…and I
Had chosen to remain close to
his side
-- Beowulf
heroes…
Benjamin “Keefe” Clark
As the sole corporate chef for Fiduciary Trust on
the South Tower's 96th floor. Clark urged
hundreds of people to head down the stairs…
Katherine Avery
Avery arrived in New York just more than a week
after September 11 to serve as volunteer
coordinator at St. Paul's Chapel, an Episcopal
church- turned relief center just yards from
Ground Zero.
Thomas Burnett Jr.
Tom Burnett Jr. made four phone calls to his
wife Deena from United Airlines Flight 93 after
learning of the attacks on New York and
Washington and pledged to "do something."
Welles Crowther
An equities trader on the South Tower's
104th floor, Crowther helped dozens of
people to safety on September 11.
Isaac Ho'opi'i
A Pentagon police officer, Ho'opi'i ran back-andforth from the burning building, carrying eight
people to safety. On one of his last trips in, he
yelled, "If you can hear me, head toward my
voice."
Eric Jones
A graduate student, Jones was driving to school
when he spotted smoke over the Pentagon. He
pulled into the building's parking lot and began
rescuing people from the debris.
David Lim
Lim, a Port Authority K-9 officer, was in the
South Tower when American Flight 11 slammed
into the North Tower. He ran up to the North
Tower's 44th floor before heading down.
Maureen Schulman
Schulman arrived shortly after both towers had been hit,
and she twice narrowly skirted death when the buildings fell.
One of just a handful of women in the 11,000+ strong New
York City fire department, Schulman spent many hours at
Ground Zero working alongside her colleagues -- two of whom
are her brothers.
Yvette Washington-Montagne
A New York City 911 operator for the last 21 years,
Yvette Washington-Montagne talked to distraught
family members and others injured in the terrorist
attacks. She stayed on the job for 16 hours.
David Lim
Lim, a Port Authority K-9 officer, was in the
South Tower when American Flight 11
slammed into the North Tower. He ran up to
the North Tower's 44th floor before heading
down.
On September 9, 2003,
two days ago, - a coffin
holding a vial of Michael
Ragusa's blood was
carried by firetruck
Monday to his funeral,
where the 29-year-old
became the last of the 343
firefighters killed in the
attack on the World
Trade Center to be
memorialized.
Many a treasure
fetched from far was freighted with him.
No ship have I known so nobly fitted
with breastplate and blade: on his bosom lay
a heaped hoard that hence should go
far o'er the flood with him floating away.
No less these loaded the lordly gifts,
thanes' huge treasure, than those had done
who in former time forth had sent him
sole on the seas, a suckling child.
High o'er his head they hoist the standard,
a gold-wove banner; let billows take him,
gave him to ocean. from Beowulf
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every
man is a piece of the continent, a part of
the main. If a small piece of dirt is washed
away by the sea, our continent is the less…
any man's death diminishes us, because we
are involved in mankind… and therefore
never send to know for whom the bells
tolls; it tolls for thee.” -- John Donne