Families: Double Agony

Kids at ground zero witnessed terror, then were uprooted from home and school. Here's their story

Lucas Rosario, 8, of New York City has new clothes and some extra toys lent to him by his best friend Harry. When he and his parents go out to dinner, which is almost every night now, he gets to pick the restaurant. But if you ask Lucas, none of this is lucky. He witnessed the two planes crashing into the World Trade Center, his "favorite buildings," and saw people jumping to their deaths. And the reason he is freshly outfitted and eating out is that he and his parents Julio Rosario and Joan Lader have been living a vagabond existence...

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