Senator Hillary Clinton (news - web sites) poses with Lauren Manning for photographers as they arrive at the Glamour magazine Women of the Year awards in New York City, October 28, 2002. Manning was given one of the awards after she survived the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center. REUTERS/Jeff ChristensenMore on Lauren Manning:
After breakfast on September 11, 2001, Lauren Manning, a senior vice president and partner at Cantor-Fitzgerald, a large New York bond-trading firm, headed for One World Trade Center, as she did every morning. As she stepped into the lobby, a fireball exploded from the elevator shaft, and in that split second her life was changed forever...
Until that moment, Lauren had been, in her husband's words, "vibrant, athletic, beautiful, decisive and demanding." Now burns covered more than 80 percent of her body; her odds of surviving were said to be less than 15 percent; and she was lying in an ICU, in a drug-induced coma, hovering between life and death. It would be two months before she awoke fully enough to find out that her office building was gone, and with it, hundreds of colleagues and friends.
On September 19, Lauren's husband Greg began writing a daily journal. In the form of e-mails sent to family, friends, and colleagues, he recorded her harrowing struggle - and his own tormented efforts to make sense of an act that defies all understanding. This book contains those letters - detailed, intimate, inspiring messages that end, always, with "Love, Greg & Lauren."
It was, first and foremost, Greg's belief that Lauren would win her brave fight for life that kept him writing. Through his eyes we see what she could not - her ten-month-old son's first steps, and the video of his first birthday party. And we are there as Lauren gradually emerges into awareness, signaling first with her eyes, and then with smiles, her understanding of the words Greg speaks to her, and the songs he plays. Most miraculously, we are there when Lauren walks out of the Burn Center.
The world knows all too well by now both the nightmare and the heroism associated with "9/11." But no account quite matches this one for its heartfelt spontaneity. It is a story that invites us to share, e-mail after e-mail, the perilous course of a mortally wounded woman who, because she is determined to live for her husband and her son, emerges from near death by sheer willpower and courage. And it is equally the story of a man who, as he stays by her side, discovers anew the depth of his love. Link
Quite a contrast between these two women, Lauren a brave soul with so much love in her heart for her son and husband stuggled heroically to become the wife and mom she once was.
And the skank who cares only about herself and her political career. Glamour had to invite hillary as the anti-glamour balance for the evening.