Sean Kirst / Newhouse News Service
“If this ring could only talk,” Morabito said quietly.
Laura Lee Morabito wore it on Sept. 11, 2001, the day she climbed onto American Airlines Flight 11 for what she and Mark assumed would be a routine business trip. Terrorists flew the plane into the north tower of the World Trade Center. The jet fuel exploded, touching off a fire of enough heat to bring the tower down.
“Nothing survived it,” Morabito said. “But this did.”
He brought the ring that day to the shoreline of Skaneateles Lake southwest of Syracuse, where he walked in a park near the Sherwood Inn (wiki), a restaurant where he and Laura “went all the time.” Morabito looked down the street and pointed out Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, the Oct. 19 location of the funeral for his wife.
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