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VOA常速英语听力2012年09月合辑（文本）：Film-Recounts-Cantor-Fitzgeralds-911-Tragic-Losses-Recovery NEW YORK — On the morning of September 11, 2001, 658 people were working between the 101st and the 105th floor of the World Trade Centers North Tower. They were employees of Cantor Fitzgerald, a bond trading firm. When a hijacked plane slammed into the tower, all 658 lost their lives, representing one-fourth of the 3,000 people who died nationwide from the September 11 terror attacks. Television cameras captured the imploding towers. But the images do not show the almost 1,000 children of Cantor Fitzgerald employees who lost parents. Nor the 38 pregnant wives who became widows. Doug Gardner was one of those who perished. His sister, film director Danielle Gardner, honors him in her new documentary about the firm抯 tragedy. Its called Out of the Clear Blue Sky. 揑 kind of wanted people to hear a brother-sister relationship, which is just defined by generosity and kindness, and hopefully hear love, and realize that抯 what抯 been lost,?Gardner said. Cantor Fitzgeralds CEO Howard Lutnick survived the attacks because he was out of the office that day. But his brother died. Lutnick speaks of the bond that developed among relatives of the deceased. 揟hey were amazed to find other people with children just like theirs. So they were able to help heal their broken hearts by being with others who could listen to them, who could hear them,?Lutnick said. As the ruins smoldered, families held out hope that their loved ones had survived. Lutnick vowed to help the victims families, but then, in what was seen as cold-hearted, he stopped paychecks to the families of those who died. That move, he says, helped the firm survive so he could fulfill his promise to the families. 揥e have two choices. We can shut the firm, go to our friends?funerals - 658 funerals. That抯 20 a day for 35 days in a row. Or we抮e going to work harder than we抳e ever worked before in order to help our friends families,?Lutn