The Woman Who Wasn't There Page #3

It was this idea of this person

who had gone through so much,

and, and people try to protect

her a lot,

and I think I probably had a

protective feeling

right from the start.

TANIA HEAD:
I had met Gerry

Bogacz,

and Gerry was also meeting with

survivors.

He had started having dinner

with people in his office

who were interested in meeting

and discussing

their September 11th experience.

GERRY BOGACZ:
I had the idea for

the Survivors' Network because,

again, I had this feeling of

having a hole I needed to fill

about 9/11 in me.

I suggested that she come to a

meeting

of the Survivors' Network as a

way of bringing,

bringing these two groups

together,

and that was the first time I

had met her in person.

[MUSIC]

TANIA HEAD:
We ended up going

for coffee that same day,

and we started to unite forces,

and we formed the World Trade

Center Survivors' Network.

I was driven. I'd been working

non-stop.

I'd been working at my work,

for, for my work.

I'd been working for the

Survivors' Network, for the,

for Dave's foundation, for the

widows' group.

I mean, I had just been working

24 hours a day

non-stop for different things,

and that's how my anger was

channeled

because of this obsession that I

had to,

to really not be like the

hijackers.

[MUSIC]

MARIAN FONTANA:
I think Tania's

presence

made the docent program that we

had envisioned possible.

Her story kind of fit into that

kind of all-encompassing

survivor and a hero and, you

know, a widow

and everything that kind of 9/11

came to represent on that day.

So, her story was incredible.

ALICE GREENWALD:
I would call

her just an energetic booster

for the needs of the survivor

community.

She genuinely wanted recognition

for the Survivor Network

and the survivor community to

recognize not only

what they had gone through and

attest to that,

but to provide a venue for them

to feel like this is theirs.

TANIA HEAD:
And from there, I

started going down on my own.

I've seen Sting, because I love

Sting.

GERRY BOGACZ:
We didn't have

access to the site,

so that initial ability to

actually go into the site was,

was a very powerful experience,

and it was very much appreciated

that Tania

was able to make those

arrangements.

JANICE:
It was amazing that she

survived.

So, you were just thankful, you

know, to look at her

and see people recover and heal

and do amazing stuff with their

life.

RICHARD:
She had a tremendous

sense of humor

and laughed a lot [Laughter]

and always wanted to plan

another event

and do important things,

and one couldn't help but be

drawn into that.

RUDY GIULIANI:
Tania, you did a

great job.

TANIA HEAD:
Thank you.

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