Bin Laden's death brings joy, nightmares for 9/11 families
09.02.30
For more than a year after his wife and daughter were killed on Sept. 11, 2001, a pair of little girls’ shoes, size 4, sat at David McCourt’s front door.
His wife, Ruth, and daughter, Juli Ana, were killed when their Los Angeles-bound plane was hijacked and flown into the south tower of New York’s World Trade Center. For months, he would lay crying in a fetal position on his 4-year-old daughter’s bed, feeling that his scars would never heal.
“Losing my wife was like my heart being ripped out; losing my daughter was having my soul ripped out,’’ said McCourt, who moved from Connecticut to Palm Beach after the tragedy.
Monday brought a bit of joy, and more sadness for McCourt, and others who lost loved ones in the attacks, when they learned that Osama Bin Laden had been killed in a surprise raid by U. S. military troops.
As thousands danced in the streets celebrating in New York and Washington, many family members and veterans spent Monday reliving the worst memories of their lives.
Source: MiamiHerald.com