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Robert Pearlman
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Excerpt from The Atlanta Journal:

For Keith Lee of Stone Mountain, the films just make him wonder more about his cousin, Margaret Lewis, who worked on the 72nd floor of the World Trade Center's south tower and is missing.

"Every time I see that plane, I just imagine the horror Margaret must have felt," said Lee, a Vietnam vet. "I look at people walking out of the buildings, and every black woman I see I ask myself, 'Is that Margaret?' "

Lewis' family has been trying to get information, but they've been told it could be 72 hours or longer before there's any news.

The whole experience has an eerie familiarity for Lee's sister, Mary Lee McNair. She is the sister-in-law of Ronald McNair, one of the astronauts killed in the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.

A take-charge kind of person, McNair is finding this tragedy harder in some ways.

"This is so different. You have no place to go," she said.

"With the Challenger, we did know something. There are so many raw emotions from what you don't know. Not knowing is worse."

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