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9A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2016 Survivors of 9/11 share soul-stirring experiences Guides relive horriic day By VERENA DOBNIK Associated Press NEW YORK — For almost a decade after her brother was killed on 9/11, Jeanmarie Har- grave avoided the World Trade Center. Being there was “too emotional, too sad.” But ive years ago, she tried a different way of grieving. She joined a group of about 800 people touched personally by the attacks who now lead tours of the Sept. 11 memorial plaza. The guides, who include attack survivors, rescue and recovery workers and people who lost a loved one, give vis- itors the soul-stirring experi- encing of walking through the rebuilt complex with people who came face to face with the attack and its aftermath. And in return, guides like Hargrave, of Maplewood, New Jersey, get an emotional outlet. At irst, she said, “I had a very dificult time telling my personal story. I would cry through the whole thing.” But that soon changed. “These people can cry with you and laugh with you. And that makes it much easier,” said Hargrave, whose brother, T.J. Hargrave, worked in the twin towers at the inancial services company Cantor Fitzgerald. The daily, 75-minute tours are organized by the 9/11 Trib- ute Center , a nonproit created by the September 11 Families Association, one of the groups representing people who lost a relative in the attacks. After leaving the Tribute Center’s gallery, which con- tains artifacts, images and oral histories of the attacks, the tour groups visit a memorial to lost ireighters on the side of a Lib- erty Street irehouse that was nearly destroyed in the attacks. down,” she said, her voice cracking with emotion. “When you hear someone’s story, you really feel it inside, and it’s totally different from just com- ing and looking at the buildings and memorial pools.” The Tribute Center oper- ates separately from the oficial National September 11 Memo- rial & Museum, which con- trols the plaza, the two giant memorial pools and an under- ground museum. It runs about six tours a day, at a cost of $25 per person. Deeply personal detail Two guides then lead each group through the World Trade Center’s tree-illed plaza to the two memorial pools, explain- ing — often in deeply personal detail — what happened on the day of the attacks. “We opened the ofice door, and the hall was a wall of black smoke,” guide Leokadia Glo- gowski told a group of two dozen visitors on one recent tour. She worked as an engineer on the 82nd loor of the north tower, and described how the building swayed when it was struck by an airliner. “Somebody yelled, ‘Get out, right now! Get out!”’ she told her group. She said she prayed before plunging into the smoke, feeling her way to the stairwell and walking the 82 stories to the ground. Rose Starosta, a tourist from Saskatchewan, said hearing No scripts The tours aren’t scripted, though the guides are trained in a series of workshops con- ducted in collaboration with the storytelling organization The Moth. Tribute volunteers, staff and story coaches work to craft each narration. Jean Nebbia, a school- teacher from Oakland, New Jersey, said that like Hargrave, she avoided the World Trade Center site for years before volunteering as a guide last June. Now she tells the story of her brother Steven Schlag, who also worked at Cantor Fitzgerald. “I had never really done anything as far as 9/11. I always had this heavy load that weighed me down, but I wasn’t ready till this past spring. I realized that I need to do some- AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews Jean Nebbia, a schoolteacher from Oakland, N.J., talks with visitors to the Sept. 11 memorial site in New York. Nebbia serves as a volunteer tour guide, organized by the private nonprofit 9/11 Tribute Center, to tell tours about her broth- er Steven Schlag, a partner at Cantor Fitzgerald, who was killed in the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. that irst-person account made her visit to the site far more moving and intimate. “It doesn’t really hit you until somebody says she was afraid, but determined to get thing,” she said. “I don’t want to stop talking about what hap- pened that day, and this gives me a voice. I am just so grate- ful that I’m meeting these peo- ple and that they’re willing to listen.” Closest to son Another guide, retired phy- sician Barry Aron, 75, travels from Maryland for a day each month to lead two tours. He ends each tour at the spot where the name of his son, Joshua Todd Aron, is engraved on the bronze par- apet surrounding the north tower memorial pool. The new World Trade Cen- ter is “the place where I feel closest to Josh,” he said. He also leads his groups to a more hopeful spot — to the “Survivor Tree,” a stalwart pear that emerged from the iery rubble, clinging to life. “I point out to people, ‘You see the burned bark from 9/11? — and the new growth?”’ he says. “It’s a symbol of our perseverance in the face of adversity.” Glogowski’s presentation is tinged with hope, too. She tells her tour group that as she led Manhattan after the attack, she encountered a saving grace: a girl handing out paper towels to ash-smeared survivors so they could wipe their faces. “Goodness and love always win,” she said. After 15 years, the last artifacts of 9/11 are inally put to rest New York shared the relics of terror By ADAM GELLER Associated Press NEW YORK — Behind the barbed wire, the minivan’s busted windows and crumpled roof hint at its story. But fork- lifted to this windblown spot on the John F. Kennedy Interna- tional Airport tarmac, between a decommissioned 727 and an air- craft hangar, it’s doubtful pass- ing drivers notice it at all. In the long struggle with the memories of 9/11, though, the van’s solitary presence here marks a small but signiicant transition point. Tons of wreckage — twisted steel beams, chunks of concrete smelling of smoke, a crushed ire engine, a dust-covered air- line slipper — were salvaged from the World Trade Center site for preservation after the 2001 terrorist attacks. Now, 15 years later, this van from a govern- ment agency motor pool likely sheltered in a garage beneath the complex, is the last artifact with- out a resting place. When the van is claimed it will fulill a pledge that, to move beyond 9/11 without los- ing sight of it, New York would share relics of that terror, along with the tales of sacriice and fear that come with them. The decision to give away pieces of wreckage has been praised and criticized over the years. But its impact is undeniable. More than 2,600 artifacts have gone to 1,585 ire and police departments, schools and museums, and other nonproit organizations in every state and at least eight other countries. “They are the relics of the destruction and they have the same power in the same way as medieval relics that have the power of the saints,” said Har- riet Senie, author of “Memori- als to Shattered Myths: Vietnam to 9/11.” An architect combed site After the attacks, it wasn’t at all clear what would happen to the wreckage. The Port Author- ity of New York & New Jersey, the Trade Center’s owner, dis- patched an architect to comb the site, saving a fraction of the material, which was sent to JFK’s empty Hangar 17. A judge determined the arti- facts could be donated to those who promised to care for them. But where to begin? “It was piles and piles, prob- ably my height or higher, of steel beams,” says Amy Passiak, the archivist hired to catalog the Jetta Fraser/The Columbus Dispatch A beam from the destroyed World Trade Center buildings, part of the 9/11 Memorial near the Veterans’ Pavilion at the Fulton County Fair in Wauseon, Ohio. artifacts, recalling the irst time she walked into the hangar in 2010. Passiak, a high school senior in Michigan at the time of the attacks, had been working as an intern at New York’s 9/11 museum, but says she was still unprepared for the scene. “I remember going home that day and just being exhausted, just from being there a few hours, just being emotionally exhausted and not being able to comprehend the amount of work that was going to go into the process.” As word spread that the Port Authority was giving the mate- rial away, requests poured in. Through August, it had distrib- uted 2,629 artifacts. 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Fears of terrorism But 15 years after Septem- ber 11, memories of the attacks are set against continued fears of terrorism. “We just don’t know where the events of 9/11 have led us,” said Rick Sluder, ire chief in Wauseon, Ohio, which obtained a Trade Center beam and, together with neighboring departments, built a memorial at the Fulton County Fairgrounds. “A lot of people are look- ing at this as, is this the point of downfall or the point at which we rose above the rest, the point of resiliency?” Sluder said. By early this year, there was little left at Hangar 17, Passiak said. Items like police cruis- ers, whose purpose that day were clear, found takers. But unmarked vehicles, anonymous but for their place in the wreck- age, were initially passed over. When the Port Authority shuttered the artifact program in August, oficials moved the only remaining artifact — a white Dodge Caravan — to the tar- mac. It, too, is likely to go soon, to a group oficials will not iden- tify until its application has been approved. Passiak, who recently moved to Michigan to start a job at an art museum, said some day she’d like to take a road trip, stopping to see where the arti- facts have found homes. GARAGE SALES Y OU R GU ID E TO LOCAL PROF E SSIONAL S A RBORIST Adopted artifacts But for many of the people and groups that adopted arti- facts, the loss was more abstract. Heath Satow, a sculptor in California hired to design a 9/11 memorial for the plaza fronting Rosemead’s city ofices, recalls awkwardly scanning a digital catalog showing beams avail- able from the Trade Center. But hundreds of hours creating the memorial — a 10-foot beam cradled by hands of chrome, the palms and ingers formed from 2,976 interlocking birds repre- senting individual victims — left a deep impression. “Every individual was attended to,” said Satow, his voice breaking. “I just was totally unprepared for it. 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