Joe Asher, Cantor Fitzgerald, North Tower: I remember the day of the death certificates. People needed them to begin taking care of their spouse’s estate. The city set up a system where a death certificate could be obtained with an affidavit from the next of kin and an affidavit from the employer. The employer’s affidavit said essentially: name, Social Security number, date of birth, etc., worked for Cantor Fitzgerald at One World Trade Center and to the best of our knowledge was in the building on September 11. We did individual affidavits. The stack was a foot high. Each was two pages.
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