Tommy gallagher was working across the street when the planes hit the Twin Towers. "As we evacuated, we could see people jumping out of windows," he recalls. Then the first tower collapsed. Everyone in the street started running. A huge cloud of dust enveloped them. Mr Gallagher could not see or breathe. He thought he was going to die. Soon after he escaped, Mr Gallagher was told to put his bank's business back together at an office in uptown Manhattan. Plugging the computers in again was easy enough, but the people in the office could not simply be re-booted. After a month Mr Gallagher snapped. "A guy gave me shit. I threatened to beat him up. They fired me," he says.
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