วันศุกร์ที่ 26 มีนาคม พ.ศ. 2553

THE MARRIOTT HOTEL - 9-11 - FRANK RAZANNO RESCUE

NEW YORK - Nearly everyone watching TV on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, saw something they considered unimaginably horrifying. But not Frank Razzano. He watched the twin towers burning and recalled a story he'd read years earlier, about a B-25 bomber that crashed into the Empire State Building in the mid-1940s. People died but the structure wasn't severely damaged and firefighters put out the blaze. It's the Empire State fiasco, all over again, Razzano thought, as he watched. Tragic, appalling -- but hardly a threat to his life. That proved a colossal misjudgment, of course, and it was catastrophic for no one more than Frank Razzano. At the time, he was standing in his underwear in a room on the 19th floor of the Marriott World Trade Center, a doomed 23-story hotel nestled right between the World Trade Center's towers. All around him, thousands were fleeing, and others were dead or minutes from dying under an epic pile of debris. In a matter of minutes, the South Tower would collapse, much of it directly on top of the Marriott, cleaving the hotel in half. Amid this chaos, Razzano -- who is a partner at the Washington law firm of Dickstein Shapiro and, for what it's worth, a totally sane-seeming man -- turned off the TV and made what he later called the single worst decision of his life: He decided to take a shower. He also shaved. Then he dressed and methodically started to pack up his clothes and legal papers. Jeff Johnson.... So many things ran through Jeff Johnsons ...



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