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...Phillip Godfrey was thrown into a wall on the 55th floor of 1 World Trade Center when the first plane hit. A seminar on the logistics of trade with Mexico had just begun, and it was Godfrey's job as a Benchmark Hospitality employee to help set up. Now Godfrey, 43, asked Jesus not to let the floor give way. When it steadied, he focused his attention on getting everyone out. Like many of those at the Trade Center that morning whose names we never heard--people who weren't fire fighters or cops--Godfrey thought of others first...
...year Trade Center employee, Godfrey had survived the '93 bombing, and knew it would be best to leave immediately, even though he also knew that official procedure called for staying put. Now calmer, the women said they had to get their bags. Godfrey thought about grabbing his own bag, which contained a ring with his initials and the gold onyx watch that needed cleaning, but he didn't. Instead, he asked whether anyone had searched the meeting rooms. No one had, so Godfrey ran to clear them while the others started downstairs. Another frightened co-worker wanted to wait...
Since Sept. 11, strange things have happened to Phil Godfrey. Hailed as a hero, he also lost his job when Benchmark started layoffs. He has visited ground zero three times, trying hard to weep, but he can't. People have said he did amazing things that he didn't do: hoist a woman down the stairs, give someone a $50 bill to get home. Instead, he did the simple work of a man who has learned that, as he says, "we need each other." He is reminded of that every Sunday at Harlem's Kelly Temple Church...
Parents should never try to duplicate the lifestyle their children enjoyed at home, however. "While children's expectations are that they should live in the same socioeconomic level that they did at home," explains Neale Godfrey, author of Money Doesn't Grow on Trees, "they need to know that they will be strapped in the real world." If they are living at home while getting started or paying off debt, they should pay some rent, if only to understand that they will have housing costs later...
...feet, calmly elucidating--without notes, of course--the four essential points of his argument, his hands sometimes shaking the invisible box, his thumbs sometimes making a pair of goalposts. He cites page numbers and percentages and the specific copyright status of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and My Man Godfrey. Then the sun rises in the west: Boies asks the court's forbearance while he looks up a page number he cannot recall...