Friday, September 10, 2004

USATODAY.com - Sept. 11 families build foundations of hope

USATODAY.com - Sept. 11 families build foundations of hope: "NEW YORK � For six months after her son died at the World Trade Center, Liz Alderman could barely speak of him, let alone decide how to memorialize him.

Volunteers work for a charitable foundation created to assist underprivileged school children.
By Todd Plitt, USA TODAY

While Peter's friends planted a copper beech tree in the family's yard in Pound Ridge., N.Y., his parents considered funding a scholarship or building a small park. Then one night, she saw on TV a way to remember her son and move forward with her life.
The death of the Aldermans' youngest child, a 25-year-old salesman for Bloomberg's electronic-trading service, was worth $1.5 million, according to the federal victims compensation fund set up after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Peter's parents put the entire amount into a program that trains doctors to treat victims of mass violence in countries like Rwanda, Cambodia and Bosnia. It is led by the man Liz Alderman saw on Nightline: psychiatrist Richard Mollica, director of a refugee "

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