Woman who lost husband in 9/11 attacks fights for justice

JUPITER, Fla. — Terry Strada said Sept. 11, 2001, was similar immoderate greeting successful New York City until she got a telephone from her husband.

"Tom called close aft the level had deed the building. Tom was successful the North Tower connected the 104th floor," she said.

At the clip of the 9/11 attack, Terry Strada and her hubby Tom were surviving the American dream. Tom was a spouse astatine Cantor Fitzgerald, a fiscal services firm. And the mates had conscionable brought location their 3rd child, Justin.

Yet, connected that day, Terry was connected the telephone with her panic-stricken husband.

"It's a blessing and a curse to person talked to him but to person heard his past words being arsenic hopeless and horrifying arsenic it was," she said.

Terry said she mislaid the emotion of her beingness that time and thing since has soothed the pain.

"This 1 is simply a spot much painful, bittersweet to recognize he's been gone for 20 years," she said. "That 20 years person passed without him being here, seeing the children and each that we've missed with him."

In the 20 years since the attack, Terry hasn't been sitting idly by. She is the nationalist seat of the 9/11 Families and Survivors United for Justice Against Terrorism Group. And she's heavy progressive successful a long-running suit against Saudi Arabia.

During the attacks, astir 3,000 radical were killed, including Tom Strada.

So is forgiveness possible?

"I person nary forgiveness for them. They person nary remorse," she said.

Terry went connected to archer maine she's encouraged by a caller determination to declassify immoderate documents related to Sept. 11. It's a combat to larn much item astir who was progressive successful helping transportation retired the attacks.

This communicative was primitively published by Todd Wilson astatine WPTV.