by st4 » Sun Jun 26, 2005 8:13 am
<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>TRANSCRIPT<br><br>9/11 Accounts From the North & South Towers</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>Here's an excerpt:<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>97TH FLOOR (South Tower)<br>Edmund McNally, victim<br>Fiduciary Trust<br>Portraits of Grief: The Joy of Shopping</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em><br>He spoke with his wife Liz after the plane struck the north tower. He then called back twice after his own building had been struck. This is her account of that call:</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>The first thing he said to me, he said that I meant the world to him and he loved me. He said tell the girls he loved them very much. This is what a courageous strong person he was. He was not even concerned about himself at that point. You know what he did? He said now Liz, don't forget about the life insurance. Don't forget about these different programs he had with work. The different contracts - bonus programs. And he went down an A to Z of his life, and what I needed to address.<br><br>I told him to pray to Michael the archangel. We said we loved each other. And we said goodbye. Supposedly I was in such physical shock, my body was totally shaking. But I was able to talk to him calmly. That's what my friend was telling me.<br><br>But I got another phone call from him. He called me back to tell me that he felt silly because he had just booked a trip to go to Rome. He said, ``Liz, you have to cancel that. You have to take care of that.''<br><br>At that point, I said, ``Ed, you're getting out of there.'' I said the firemen are coming up to get you. I said you are a problem solver. You're going to get out of there.<br><br>That's when he said to me, ``Liz, this was a terrorist attack. I can hear explosions below me.'' He said stuff about the data center. That's why I think he was on the 97th floor, because the data center was on the 97th floor.<br><br>Then he said the floor was buckled. And he said it was getting really hot and hard to breath. His voice was actually very calm. It wasn't like someone calling up panicking. He sounded a little winded the first time I spoke to him. The next two times, it was amazing how calmly he was talking to me. In that last phone call, he did whimper. He whimpered once. I just said to him, ``Ed, I love you very much.'' I said I want you to go. I said, ``Ed, conserve your energy.'' I said they are coming up there to get you. And with that we said our last goodbyes.<br><br>Not once was he concerned about himself. I always look back on it.<br><br><br>Interview by James Glanz <br><br>[SNIP]<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Read them all here:<br><br>South Tower<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/26/nyregion/26STOWER.html">www.nytimes.com/2002/05/2...TOWER.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>North Tower<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/26/nyregion/26NTOWER.html">www.nytimes.com/2002/05/2...TOWER.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><br>If you don't have a NYTimes.com account, go to this website:<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.bugmenot.com/">www.bugmenot.com/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>and then copy and paste this link <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.nytimes.com">www.nytimes.com</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> into the search window and click 'show logins'.<br><br>Write the login keys down and then use them to access the WTC transcript links from above. <p></p><i></i>