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Tania Heads story, as shared over the years with reporters, students, friends and hundreds of visitors to ground zero, was a remarkable account of both life and death.
She had, she said, survived the terror attack on the World Trade Center despite having been badly burned when the plane crashed into the upper floors of the south tower.
Crawling through the chaos and carnage on the 78th floor that morning, she said, she encountered a dying man who handed her his inscribed wedding ring, which she later returned to his widow.
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Much of Ms. Heads account was posted on the Web site of the World Trade Center Survivors Network, a nonprofit organization for which she served as president and as point person for corporate donations.
But no part of her story, it turns out, has been verified.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/27/nyregion/27survivor.html?pagewanted=1&ref=todayspaper
She had, she said, survived the terror attack on the World Trade Center despite having been badly burned when the plane crashed into the upper floors of the south tower.
Crawling through the chaos and carnage on the 78th floor that morning, she said, she encountered a dying man who handed her his inscribed wedding ring, which she later returned to his widow.
......
Much of Ms. Heads account was posted on the Web site of the World Trade Center Survivors Network, a nonprofit organization for which she served as president and as point person for corporate donations.
But no part of her story, it turns out, has been verified.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/27/nyregion/27survivor.html?pagewanted=1&ref=todayspaper
