Stuck on the tarmac at Newark International Airport in his Gulfstream V on Sept. 11 and cut off from the world when his cell phone wouldn't work, EDS Chief Executive Richard Brown silently watched out a jet window as the World Trade towers across the Hudson River burned and collapsed.

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During a brief recess, Christian's parents paused at a window near the hearing room in this shipyard town, their arms around each other, looking across the Elizabeth River flowing toward the sea.

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