During the 2006 trial of al-Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, a prosecutor asked Lee Hanson to express his family’s loss. “They took away our dreams,” Lee said as jurors wept. “They took away our future. . . . Peter and Sue were just so much, so good, and so alive, and they lived life and they loved people and they loved their families. And we’re going to miss all the celebrations. . . . All of those occasions when Christine would have graduated from kindergarten and from the first grade and so forth and so on. And I decided I was going to try to stick around long enough to make sure I got
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