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After crawling through over 75 feet of rubble horizontally and vertically , Thomas made it out of the mass tragedy alive, but the story he lived to tell is much different than the one most of us can imagine from the footage we saw on our TV screens. Standing there was a police officer and a museum facilities dispatch worker. Thomas Canavan, one of twenty survivors of the collapse.

He proceeded to tell me his harrowing story of being buried alive, crawling through 46 horizontal and roughly 30 vertical feet of rubble, making it out alive, severely injured but not realizing it due to adrenaline and sadly having lost the friends he started with. We talked for 20 minutes as if no one else were around.

I asked questions, and he gladly answered. The little holes in the Towers on TV from the planes were really 6 stories tall. The magnitude of this tragedy was so much more than most of us can imagine from our television screens.

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Clint came back with museum tickets for am. It was am so we were going to have to wait a bit. The rain had subsided by now. I could tell Tom was highly respected by everyone around. Before he left us, he told us to look for him in the museum; we would find his picture and the watch he wore that fateful day. From the impact of the collapse, his wristwatch stopped; a moment stuck in time.

The eeriness and irony. Tom told me that was the last day he ever wore a watch. Even something as simple as not being able to wear a watch, because it brings back haunting flashbacks.