After 4 1/2 long years, this is our only attempt to get a scintilla of justice. |
After four and a half long years, this is our only attempt to get a scintilla of justice. What does accountability feel like? That's what eluded the families of the victims. |
For the families and parents of the victims there has not been one iota of accountability or responsibility on any level since 9/11. This is our last hope . . . to see that this person receives justice. |
He's a proxy. If this man would have been called up that day, he would have accepted the assignment in a heartbeat. |
I am waiting for some remnant of my son that I can give him a proper burial, that I can erect a stone, which indicates that he lived a wonderful life and died a brutal and unnecessary but heroic death. I cannot do that, and I will never give up. |
I feel that this is a disaster waiting to happen. Putting something like this below the ground is a very, very bad idea. |
I lost my son on 9/11. He was just the most wonderful person that God ever made. I was looking to this trial to see if we could eradicate one evil person, to remove one force of evil from this beautiful world, and this is why I'm devastated to see that again. We may have lost the only opportunity that was really left for us to have some justice. |
I need to see what justice feels like, what an attempt to achieve some type of justice or accountability or responsibility feels like. |
I was convinced that this man was only a heartbeat away from taking the controls of a plane. |
I was really horrified and very outraged to hear that this type of mistake was made. This is probably one of the most important trials in the history of this country — how someone could put that at risk. She betrayed the families of the victims who certainly have been waiting nearly five long years to get some kind of scintilla of justice. |
I'm here today because I'm looking for my son and the rest of his engine company, who disappeared from the face of the earth on 9-11. |
I'm hoping that the public and the system will learn how unprepared the City of New York and the Port Authority were on that day. |
No building should ever be above the law. |
People should have been able to get out. That's why we went to court. We want people to know this so it doesn't happen again. |
The operators desperately tried to manage a situation that they were not trained to manage. |