It takes guts to survive

It has taken about                      I just want to look
a week to get my                       at one story here as
head around last                        is seems like one
weeks television                        I can relate to in
saturation cover                         terms of situation
of the 10 year's                          an account of a man
memorial of the                         who was a graphic
terrible disaster                          designer  arrived at
that occurred on                        work early sa as to
9/11/2001 NYC.                       meet a deadline...
I watched about                        When the plane hit
5 documentaries                        his four colleagues
about survival, a                       and him were all
documentary all                        standing in a line
about the brave                         they would have
acts some folks                         been dead if they
were willing to                         had been any other
perform in the                           way. They escaped
face of intense                          a burning office, a
fear, confusion                         choking blocked,
and blind panic                        fire escape, electric
The NYPD and                       elevator cables cut
the NYFD are a                       and swinging loose
couple of depts                        above three inches
the men of whom                    of water and the
consider it part                         collapse of the 2nd
of the job to risk                       hit tower. The dude
their own life in                       got outside, screamed
order to allow the                    and groped his way
life of another to                      to a lobby, where a
survive, no matter                   police women said
what race o creed.                  "Don't worry you are
                                               suffering from a bit
                                               of post traumatic
                                               stress." To which he
                                               replied "Aren't I
                                               still in the trauma?"