This photo is of Gerry Bogacz taken by Ira Block.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Ten years after 9/11, how have the survivors healed?
The article that I read in first-person was about a 9/11 survivor. His name is Gerry Bogacz and he is a World War II veteran and he survived the tragic day of September 11, 2001. He was in his office in the North tower on the 82nd floor when he saw the first tower being attacked. He explains that the first five minutes of getting to the stairwell was a blur and all that he can think about till this day is the people that were in his office that did not make it out. Gerry now conducts tours on ground zero, he says, "I feel a real need to somehow acknowledge my lost colleagues. In my tours I get to talk about them a little so people at least know them a little bit." Gerry keeps the shoes that he fled in and wears a blue bracelet as a remembrance to the tragic day. National Geographic provided this moving story where you can see a photo of his shoes that he wore the day he survived the tragedy. God Bless America.
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Nice post, Aimee. You've got a great "hook" with the 10 year anniversary, and you did a nice job with the photo and quoting Bogacz. The Nat'l Geographic piece seems to be less an "article" than a long photo caption--you might have mentioned that it's actually one in a "slide show" format of survivor stories/pictures. Also, you might give your readers a little personal connection to 9-11, or how reading these survivor stories makes you feel. Nice work!
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