The Woman Who Wasn't There Page #3
MARTA FORN:
[SPEAKING INSPANISH]
MARTA FORN:
[SPEAKING INSPANISH]
SONIA:
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]SONIA:
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]SONIA:
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]SONIA:
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]She was in love with American
people and the United States.
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
ALISON CROWTHER:
Okay, come on.Come on.
You're a good boy.
Yes, you are a good boy, and you
love your cookies,
and it shows.
Bang.
Okay.
That's not totally dead, but.
(Laughs)
Well, he's been wearing a red
bandanna
since we've had him, really.
When we lost Welles, we put it
on him,
and he's always wear, worn, worn
one.
Yes, you have. Yes, you have.
You're a good boy.
I first heard the name Tania
Head
when a friend of ours who we'd
gotten to know,
volunteers down at Ground Zero,
called me and said, "Alison, I
think I've,
I've, I've, I've met someone,
I've heard of someone else who
Welles saved.
leading the tour,
and she started sharing a story
about how
the Man in the Red Bandanna
saved her.
I said, "Oh, oh, that's
wonderful.
You know, we would love to, to
meet her."
BRENDAN:
Tania, I remember thefirst time we talked about it.
I asked her, "Do you know that
guy with the red bandanna
that they were talking about?"
And she said, "Yeah, he saved my
life."
ALISON CROWTHER:
And then shecame to me, and she said,
"Well, she's a little reluctant
to meet with you.
She's had some unfortunate
experiences with other families
being very angry that she
survived
and she would like to meet with
you but very privately.
It has to be very privately."
I said, "Well, fine." You know,
"We'll meet.
We're members of the Princeton
Club and have dinner there."
She seemed very grateful, and we
were, you know, very pleased.
It was a beautiful thing.
We were, we were very moved that
she, she'd been saved,
and, and obviously, it meant so
much to her.
TANIA HEAD:
I find that familymembers
of people who were killed, they
wanna know what happened,
but I just, I just don't wanna
put those images
into their, their heads.
They don't, they don't, they
don't have to know.
They don't have to know how
their loved ones died.
I think it's, it's better if, if
they just don't know
because I saw so much suffering
on that floor to the,
to the degree where it's just,
it's just something that I,
I don't wanna share with anyone.
I'm just kind of been keeping it
to myself.
It's, it's a secret that you
carry with you, it's, and,
and it becomes a burden because
you can't really share
with a lot of people out there.
Who, who wants to, who wants to
talk about body parts
and blood and carnage?
There's nobod...
there's not that many people you
can talk to about that.
[MUSIC]
LINDA:
My head was covered.But when the second plane
crashed,
I had to run for my life.
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
LINDA:
Okay, this was towernumber two, the South Tower,
They were 110 stories each.
They were so tall that sometimes
the people
who came into work that worked
on the upper floors
looked down at the clouds.
This is one of the most
important things that I do
with my life.
I'm a survivor from September
11th,
and I finally found a purpose.
I know why I'm here,
and it's to talk to people like
you that come
and wanna hear our stories.
So, that's very important to me.
This is Tania.
Tania's also a survivor.
She's also Spanish speaking.
So, she has offered to help.
TANIA HEAD:
[SPEAKING INSPANISH]
LINDA:
Okay.She's also a survivor,
and she's also one of my best
friends.
I met Tania...
like sisters.
They just, every time we had any
kind of event,
whether it was, you know, like
an official meeting
or any time we went out
socially,
those two were always together.
LINDA:
Let's show him whatregular people
at the U.S. Open do.
You ready?
TANIA HEAD:
Yeah.LINDA:
Let's show him now whatsurvivors
do when they go to the U.S.
Open.
TANIA HEAD:
Checking out forplanes
taking off from LaGuardia.
LINDA:
We're watching the planestake off from LaGuardia.
[Laughter]
MALE PRODUCER That's good.
[Laughter]
live life with grace,
with courage, with the strength
to overcome, to me,
some of the scariest things that
I've ever faced
in my entire life.
[MUSIC]
LINDA:
I don't wanna live mylife based on
what happened to me.
I wanna live my life like
Tania's living her life,
like going out and helping other
people and doing something good
with my really horrible
experience.
[MUSIC]
[MUSIC]
ALISON CROWTHER:
We had a verybeautiful bronze sculpture
the World Trade Center
with our message that, you know,
good will prevail,
that, that good will rise from
the ashes like the phoenix
and prevail.
So, we were dedicating that
sculpture at church,
and we invited Tania to come.
MALE IN WHITE SHIRT: Tania was
on that 78th Floor sky lobby,
and she's here with us today,
thank God,
and I'm gonna ask her now if she
[Applause]
LINDA:
I remember when we got tohis service,
Tania was a nervous wreck.
She couldn't get up.
She couldn't read the piece, and
she had asked me to read it.
When Alison and Jeff asked me to
speak today,
I sat down staring at a blank
screen, and I cried,
unable to find the words, the
right words to say.
What exactly do you say to the
family of the man
who saved your life and gave his
in the process?
Welles was my hero, too, because
he saved Tania.
through the air
and I eventually crashed against
the marble wall.
ALISON CROWTHER:
It was all partof this beautiful service
that was filled with love and
hope and just,
we were so moved, really moved.
LINDA:
Hey, Welles, I'mprepared.
[Applause]
ALISON CROWTHER:
I was almostparalyzed.
The things they were saying
about our son, Welles,
were so beautiful and so
powerful,
and they said over and over
again,
"You have no idea, truly, what
your son faced."
We believe that good, that the
good of the human spirit is
far more powerful than the evil
that happened that day.
TANIA HEAD:
Now that Dave isgone,
because we were gonna have that
wedding on October 12,
marriage certificate
here in New York.
So, in the eyes of the laws, we
weren't married.
There was no need for us to file
it because we were gonna
So, when he died, that was a
huge problem for me,
but I was able to solve that
with the help of a lawyer,
and a judge, um, ended up
marrying us posthumously,
which was the saddest thing in
you know, like that, but it's
strange.
[MUSIC]
LINDA:
Tania, this year, wasvery, very distant
from all of us.
And she had been in denial for
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