Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 10:54 PM Subject: Re: 9/11 Dear Abe, I am at a total loss for words.

I have never read anything so deep as what you have put on paper. I will keep your thoughts very close to my heart. thank you for sending me your poems, I really don't know what to say. I would like to send you a CD- let me know if that is OK. sincerely, Louise Buzzelli Hope Buzzelli, 9 months, was the inspiration for the song, Hope, in honor of other women who lost their husbands on 9/11. Hope for the future PencilNews WESTWOOD, N.J., Sept. 11 - Louise Buzzelli's spirit and determination to turn the awful events of 9/11 into something positive has resulted in not only a lasting gift for her baby daughter, Hope, but also support for expectant mothers who lost their husbands on 9/11 in New York, Washington, and in the Pennsylvania countryside. Louise wrote a song, named it Hope, produced a CD, set up a foundation, and will be donating proceeds from its sale to mothers in need. Offering hope to 9/11 widows Wednesday, September 11, 2002 By KAREN MAHABIR Staff Writer RIVER VALE A routine trip to the grocery store in February sparked a turning point in Louise Buzzellis life. She saw a People magazine cover of the women who had lost their husbands in the Sept. 11 attacks. They were pictured with the babies they had since given birth to, babies who would never meet their fathers. Buzzelli, who was also pregnant when her husband was nearly lost in the attack on the World Trade Center, identified with them. It really hit me, she said. I could have been one of those mothers. ... We were trying to get on with our lives, but when I saw that, that was my breaking point. About a week later, after putting her daughter, Hope, to bed, the computer trainer took a seat in front of her old, beat-up piano. For hours, she let her emotions flow in the form of words and music and composed Hope for her husband, Pasquale, her daughter, and for those widowed women. Buzzelli was a voice major at the High School For Music And Art in Manhattan, and studied music at the Berklee College of Music in Boston for a year. The song has now been recorded on a compact disc that is being sold locally at The Gift Basket Gallery in Westwood, and at Tower Records in Manhattan, Boston, and Cambridge, Mass. It is also available for purchase on Buzzellis Web site: . All proceeds from the song go to a foundation called Song for Hope to benefit women who were pregnant when they lost their husbands in the Sept. 11 attacks. Buzzelli, who admits she is shy, first played the song during a barbecue at her home on Memorial Day at the repeated requests of family

members. When I turned around, everyone was just in tears. It actually moved people, she said, adding that she then decided to record the song. And, she said, from day to day it just snowballs. Its getting bigger and bigger, and its been really wonderful. Pasquale Buzzelli, a 33-year-old project manager for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, was working on the 64th floor of the north tower when the first plane hit. When the building collapsed, he was in the towers stairwell. Before he blacked out, he prayed for a quick death and asked God to bless his wife. Three hours later, four rescuers pulled him from the rubble. He was one of the last people to be rescued from the wreckage. I lost 12 of the 16 people I was with, he said in a December interview. Some were close friends. Some I hardly knew, but I knew their faces. I think about that. But then I try to think, well, Im here. He declined to be interviewed on the eve of the anniversary of the attacks, saying he was feeling too emotional. Louise Buzzelli says she would like to meet all the mothers and to give them a copy of the song, and that she would also like the world to hear her song. I carry that People magazine issue with me wherever I go, they are in my heart, she says on her Web site. More than anything, I want to give them their husbands [and] fathers back, but all I can give them is hope. Karen Mahabirs e-mail address is Copyright 2002 North Jersey Media Group Inc. Copyright Infringement Notice PASQUALE He worked for the Port Authority And he was on the sixty-fourth When the first plane crashed Into the Tower of the North. With some friends and strangers He was down in the stairwell When he heard that awful sound As the building fell. He thought of wife and unborn And asked God to Bless And asked Him to take him quickly But, "not his time", I guess. Three hours in the rubble Then four Angel Rescuers Pulled him out alive Along, with four others. He probably wonders "Why didn't He, take me?" But, there's surely a reason That, someday, he will see! That, in that "Master Plan" He, will have done his part After September eleventh When, he got a brand-new start. Del "Abe" Jones 9-27-2002