This photograph of Elizabeth Turner, and 4-month-old son William in 2002. Photo: Telegraph
At the twin towers at the World Trade Center (WTC) attack New York, Elizabeth Turner is no way to escape from the horrors of how she nearly 6,000 km. Her husband Simon is in a restaurant atop the North Tower of the WTC. When she saw flames rising from around the sides of two tall towers, burying everyone in the building, she is carrying his unborn son. It was in New York 8h47 am and 13h47 pm in London.
Pregnant with her first child seven months, Turner is just one of more than 100 women were weeping for the children whose father was killed in the tragedy that day. First child born of whom only a few days after the disaster. There are women who do not even know they are pregnant when the attack occurred, there are those who have miscarriages, even people who labor in the memorial husband. The 9-year-old child they are the living heritage of the men had gone that day, the father they never knew.
For this woman, they not only are raising children without a father, but the kids 11 / 9, the youngest victims of the terrorist tragedy has forever engraved in the hearts of the whole world world.
Baraheen Farqad Ashrafi and his son. Photo: Telegraph
102 minutes after Flight 11 crashed into the American Airlines, the Tower collapses and life is shattered by Turner. She had a son William in November and several weeks later, she was engulfed in grief, despair and anger. She had lived as students during the first months of William, until a friend told her to go back to the original life. She realized that in addition to what was lost, she needs to appreciate what is there, it was his son William.
She is training to become a life counselor, helping people to rebuild their lives after personal crises such as bereavement, divorce or illness. The experience itself was Turner recorded in the memoir "The blue skies of autumn", published last week. The entire proceeds from the sale of his memoirs will be sent to the Red Cross to express gratitude to organizations that have supported her after Simon's death. She also shared with her son William principles helped her escape from the abyss after the death of her husband.
"I told my son that we can stop the rotation of life and left a positive mark by trying to balance the bad things that happened. We all live in this small planet and no place to go at all, so we must continue ".
When her son grows up, she knew that William would have questions about Simon. "I want him to visualize something in mind when 10-year anniversary event 11 / 9 is coming".
Earlier this year, Turner mother and daughter had a special trip to New York to visit Ground Zero, along with her new husband and his older children. There, the employees of the WTC was for William to see and hear about what happened that day.
Also at the WTC restaurant Windows on the morning 10 years ago, a 39-year-old man. Mohammad Chowdhury, a Bangladesh-American waiter. He was one of 32 Muslims killed by al-Qaeda on 11 / 9. His wife, Baraheen Ashrafi, then frequented by Muslim youths against ridicule and blame the attack had caused her husband killed.
Ashrafi Farqad boys just two days after the attack. That was the first child born among the children of the widow 11 / 9, though Ashrafi still hope she is not the widow and Chowdhury will return. When growing up Faraq, Ashrafi said his son could not know about his father's death but ultimately he still knows it from his cousin. "He also wanted to know his father but it was in heaven. It is sure that if we work well, we will meet there, "Ashrafi said.
Andrea Russin same 3-year-old son Alec and two twin daughters Ariella and Olivia in 2002.
Susan Retik was pregnant, the third child was 7 months when her husband David are traveling on Flight 11 of American Airlines from Boston to Los Angeles. This is the first aircraft was kidnapped and exploded that day. Her daughter was born six weeks later on 11 / 9.
Retik then befriended Qigley Patti, another woman in Boston and also a widow on 11 / 9. When they raised the children alone, they also began a journey to discover, learn about Afghanistan and the plight of hundreds of thousands of other widows - the result of decades of war.
"The fact that we still have a lot of things, but the woman did not have anything, not a chance," she said. "They are the victims of the same system and with the perpetrators."
Retik and Patti had set up the charity "Beyond the 11th," $ 650,000 to support economic projects and literacy for Afghan widows. Last year, her charities Barack Obama is awarded the honor. The occasion of the 10th year the event 11 / 9, she will join families, friends and supporters take part in a fundraising bike ride in 3 days from the Ground Zero memorial to Boston.
With Andrea Russin, the second week of September is a period of bittersweet. Day 11 is the anniversary of her husband, Steven him, also on 15 is the birthday of two twin daughters were born four days after the attack. It also suggests she remembers about the great support she received from neighbors in the suburbs of New Jersey to a complete stranger in Europe, after Steven died.
"I can not describe everyone's generosity. Although that period was terrible, but it also gives me hope. There are people who do cruel things that day, but there are many wonderful people in this world. "
Now, she is still friends with the stranger appeared in her life that day. "We lost Steven, but it is more the others, they are our family."
Retik then befriended Qigley Patti, another woman in Boston and also a widow on 11 / 9. When they raised the children alone, they also began a journey to discover, learn about Afghanistan and the plight of hundreds of thousands of other widows - the result of decades of war.
"The fact that we still have a lot of things, but the woman did not have anything, not a chance," she said. "They are the victims of the same system and with the perpetrators."
Retik and Patti had set up the charity "Beyond the 11th," $ 650,000 to support economic projects and literacy for Afghan widows. Last year, her charities Barack Obama is awarded the honor. The occasion of the 10th year the event 11 / 9, she will join families, friends and supporters take part in a fundraising bike ride in 3 days from the Ground Zero memorial to Boston.
With Andrea Russin, the second week of September is a period of bittersweet. Day 11 is the anniversary of her husband, Steven him, also on 15 is the birthday of two twin daughters were born four days after the attack. It also suggests she remembers about the great support she received from neighbors in the suburbs of New Jersey to a complete stranger in Europe, after Steven died.
"I can not describe everyone's generosity. Although that period was terrible, but it also gives me hope. There are people who do cruel things that day, but there are many wonderful people in this world. "
Now, she is still friends with the stranger appeared in her life that day. "We lost Steven, but it is more the others, they are our family."
Russin has donated two playgrounds and a maternity clinic for New Jersey in response to what the community has for her family. She also offered to donate blood for the Red Cross each year celebration to honor those who perished on 11 / 9.
"I feel like God has given me a reason to live happy, not broke down on the death of Steve. Every day we are on the 11 / 9. Now we have a good life, "she said of her two twin daughters Ariella and Olivia.
Ariella wrote about the change of life in a collection of articles of family who died in terrorist attacks recently published. She dedicated a poem to her father had never met:
"Father dear,
If the father is still alive
Life has changed
The fun together
The days of playing on the beach
Along the game
But life is not like that
I always think about his love for father
I know he is always with the child
Con is always next to his father as
Loved father, Ariella ".
"I feel like God has given me a reason to live happy, not broke down on the death of Steve. Every day we are on the 11 / 9. Now we have a good life, "she said of her two twin daughters Ariella and Olivia.
Ariella wrote about the change of life in a collection of articles of family who died in terrorist attacks recently published. She dedicated a poem to her father had never met:
"Father dear,
If the father is still alive
Life has changed
The fun together
The days of playing on the beach
Along the game
But life is not like that
I always think about his love for father
I know he is always with the child
Con is always next to his father as
Loved father, Ariella ".
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