Phil Hirschkorn is a CBS News producer based in New York.
The tight-knit community of September 11th victims family members who became activists mourned the loss of one of their own Friday, when it became known that Beverly Eckert was a passenger aboard Continental Flight 3407, which crashed in Buffalo.
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She was on her way to celebrate what would have been her late husband Sean’s 58th birthday with family and friends, and to attend the presentation of a scholarship she had established in his memory at Canisius High School, where they’d met at a dance at age 16, only to become a lifelong couple.
"All of us are in shock,” said Carie Lemack, who lost her mother, Judy Larocque, on a plane in America’s worst terrorist attack, who channeled her grief into activism along with Beverly.
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Beverly’s husband and high school sweetheart, Sean Rooney, then 50, was among the more than 200 people who died at work for insurer Aon Corp in the World Trade Center’s south tower – trapped above where the second plane struck on Sept. 11, 2001 ...
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