Victims of 11 / 9 brushed tears to live

Eye Chris Hardej waterline when he recalls the day terrorists attacked New York 10 years ago: "I am the last person in the office to escape."

10 years after the terrorist attacks are the survivors can tell their story several times, but also those who still can not mention the tragedy. This event has completely changed their lives.

With Hardej, each month you to Tribute Center, the victim memorial 11 / 9 at New York, four times. Along with 400 volunteers, he is the transport sector workers lead visitors on a tour around the place once the twin towers of the World Trade Center (WTC). They turn on the memories of terror flight crashed into the twin towers.

With Hardej, the area is a symbol of New York City resurgent brought him joy. He describes to visitors to imagine the old tower, as well as landscape the entire area will look like when construction is complete.

Hardej recalls journey evacuated from 87th floor office that day. He ran down the stairs at the North Tower with two colleagues in the midst of chaos. They see firefighters going up burning buildings and never see them again.

Hardej run voice in the dark until dark from the tower. He recalls "dead silence" after the tower collapsed.

Today, he lives happily. "I did not change much," he said. "I attended the funeral yesterday an acquaintance. He is a respiratory illness."

Hardej also breath - a symptom that many victims of the 11 / 9 encounter - but not much bother. "I survived," he said.

The survivors, with terrible memories of the attack, has taken years to recover and rebuild their lives.

Life of John William Codling, 35, changed completely after the terrorist attacks. He served as broker for Euro Brokers on the 84th floor of a tower. His goal was just a "make money". Codling not work on 11 / 9 but he knows of at least 50 colleagues have been killed.

"I work with them in the bonds, 10 hours a day. We are very close," he said. "They are very special and have planned."


New York and Codling left to live with their parents. "In two years, my corner is like a ghost," he said. "I can not mention the incident in a long time."

Instead, he dreams himself to kill Osama bin Laden. He became a painter and painting Osama bin Laden dead. He has two exhibitions of paintings, called "Me I play."

His life was finally back to normal. He had a three-year-old son. He still painted, but has returned to New York and life was good again.

"10 years is probably enough to forget and to live," he said.