Coworkers Michael Curci and John Abruzzo

“You were going to take me down the rest of the way and not stop.”

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Coworkers Michael Curci (R) and John Abruzzo (L), who is a quadraplegic, remember evacuating the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Curci was one of 10 coworkers who carried Abruzzo down 69 flights of stairs to safety.

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Recorded in Journal Square, NJ.

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Credits

Produced by Lizzie Jacobs.

Facilitated by Sarah Geis.

Recorded in partnership with the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.

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