With the not so recent events but still fresh in our mind, September 11, 2001 is .
the date that will always be remembered in infamy. With innumerable stories .
composed about this horrible event, some are more heart-rending than others. After .
reading two articles written by individuals who actually experienced the true force of .
this event, both fighting for their life, there are many similarities in the writing and .
the emotions flowing through the victims as they tell their stories. .
The Price We Pay" was written by Adam Mayblum, a businessman who.
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worked in Tower one on the eighty-seventh floor. His story tells about his decent.
down and out of the tower, the people he tried to help and his frame of mind while.
these events happening at once. The other story is that of thirty-one-year-old women .
named Genelle Guzman who was put in such a dreadful position. She was working on .
the sixty-fourth floor of tower two. While she and her friends were descending and .
reached the thirteenth floor of the building, it collapsed. To her surprise she was still .
alive as well as safe yet for twenty-six hours she was trapped under tons of debris and .
later found. He was the last person found alive in this tragedy. These two accounts .
are very in many ways. With the emotions and different obstacles they had to over .
come. .
Adam Mayblum's story sounds as if it was right out of a movie script. He.
arrived to his office around eight-thirty in the morning like every other normal day, .
but this day would turn out to be very different from the others. He and his fellow .
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workers heard a huge blast a couple stories up. "The building lurched violently and .
shook as if it were an earthquake. People screamed." They had no idea what it was, .
but all had the same notion that a bomb had gone off. The light fixtures as well as the .