The Survivor

Stuart Anstee was on his first overseas trip when the bombers struck. It was a festive Saturday night at the Sari Club, and the 24-year-old environmental scientist was out with his friend Tim Hawkins, laughing and drinking with a few German and American women they had invited along for the evening. That night, Tim and two of the women died. A friend, Ben Davis, was injured by shrapnel. Another member of the group, Richard Joyes, heard the blast from his hotel room and spent a horrific night searching among the dead and helping the wounded.

That Anstee survived...

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