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20 MIDWEEK SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Hawai‘i Island Man Escapes World Trade Center Collapse, Kīlauea Eruption
FROM PAGE 19
(Above) The Sanchez family enjoys a trip to Kaua‘i in September 2012. (Right) Sanchez and son, Zy, enjoy the shade of a tree on Hawai’i Island. PHOTOS COURTESY PAUL SANCHEZ
ing back in hindsight, he feels guilty, and he wonders what he could have done.
favorite hobbies since he’s moved to Hawai‘i has been spending hours watching Andy Bumatai videos and get- ting lots of laughs from those
Center.
He says sometimes, look-
“I feel extremely fortu- nate, of course, that I’ m still alive, but even more so, that I didn’t really have anything bad happen to me physically because of it. I’m so lucky ... I feel really sad for the peo- ple who perished,” Sanchez says.
pidgin comedy routines. “Pidgin is an amazing dialect. I wish I was able to speak it like a local. I’ve been trying to get rid of my New York accent for years, but it’s just the way I speak,”
stop to think about what was happening during the time of the attack, because it all took place so suddenly.
he admits with a laugh. Turning serious again as he reflects on the 20 years that have passed since 9/11, Sanchez elaborates that one of the things that made him feel terrible was crying during phone calls with peo- ple looking for their missing loved ones who never made it out of the World Trade
“I felt terrible, like may- be I should have looked for other people. I didn’t look. It’s almost like a knee-jerk reaction. I ran right for the stairs,” Sanchez explains.
However, he didn’t even
He sums up his thoughts by considering himself lucky to have survived the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center.
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