[LenS]

USA TODAY has been doing a nice job of reconstructing the details of what happened in the Towers -- where people died, where people lived, how the elevators saved thousands, how the elevators then killed hundreds, how the sight of jumpers saved many in the South Tower by making them flee, etc.

[Salvation]

After three hours, they made a discovery: sunlight. Between occasional breaks in the smoke, they could see the sky from a hole on the side of the fourth-floor stairs.

Picciotto was the first out. He walked up the stairs and onto the top of Ground Zero. He was alone in an endless field of debris. Buildings burned in the distance.

Lim walked up the stairs and joined him. They stood in silence atop 16 acres of rubble.

"Chief," Lim said finally, "what do you think the chances of surviving something like this are?"

"One in a billion," Picciotto said. "One in a billion."

And this one brings tears to my eyes! god bless all who perished that day as well as these people who survived.

[sweetliberty]

Do you happen to have the link to the thread right off hand of the USA Today article that was posted a few days ago about what happened and all the people who jumped? I thought I had bookmarked it but I didn't and I can't remember the title.