Ground Zero cleanup supervisor looking to help Japan tsunami victims

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In this July 30, 2011 file photo, One World Trade Center rises above the Manhattan skyline and the Statue of Liberty in New York. The tower will be 104 floors and 1,776 feet (541 meters) tall when completed. Ten years after terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, the new World Trade Center is rising from ground zero. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)


NEW YORK (Kyodo) -- As Charlie Vitchers looks back over the last decade and remembers nine months overseeing the cleanup of the World Trade Center after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, he vividly recalls countless examples of selflessness during New York City's darkest hours.

As the "go-to guy" for the hundreds of people and numerous agencies involved in the massive effort to remove rubble after the hijacked jetliners crashed into the Twin Towers and debris spread over a wide area, he readily recalls the details.

"There is not a day that goes by that I don't think about 9/11," he told Kyodo News in a recent interview near the site, emphasizing the toll the cleanup took on everyone involved in the lengthy and complicated process.

"I remember precisely a lot of things."

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