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Christopher Iwuanyanwu looking at photos of his lost friend Godwin.
(photo John Aravosis)

"Godwin is a nice guy," says Christopher Iwuanyanwu, who has known Godwin Ajala for the past four years. "He is very caring, obedient, and he works hard. We worked hand in hand as brothers. We shared things together. I took him as my brother." Both men worked in security at the World Trade Center, but their shifts overlapped, so Mr. Iwuanyanwu was just heading home — and Mr. Ajala was already patrolling the Trade Center grounds — when the first plane hit. Instead of running away and saving his own life, Mr. Ajala entered the building. "When this thing happened, he had every chance of running out," Mr. Iwuanyanwu says of his friend. "But he went in to help people out. The last people that saw him were telling him: 'Why are you here? Why are you here?' And he was telling them: 'Why are you running, why don't you help people out?'"

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