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Where Do I Find Hope?

Marilyn lost her brother & sister in-law aboard ValuJet 592

Love endures all things. This gives me hope that Roger and Dana and the beautiful love they shared are still with those of us they left behind. Love will help us endure the pain. Faith will keep us steady, knowing that in the end we will understand about life and death (and redwoods).

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Andrew August receives ACCESS Humanitarian Award

Board member Andrew August of Pinnacle Law Group was awarded the ACCESS Humanitarian Award for his generous support and continued commitment to ACCESS' efforts

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ACCESS Humanitarian Award

The Board of Directors and ACCESS volunteers presented the ACCESS 2000 Humanitarian Award to New York Governor George E. Pataki in December.

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June 24th declared ACCESS Day

Mayor Gavin Newsom declares June 24th ACCESS Day in San Francisco, CA

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New York Meets San Francisco

On June 24th hundreds of guests from across the country came to celebrate ACCESS' inaugural San Francisco food and wine tasting charity event. Honorary Guest Speakers Former Mayor Willie Brown and Andrew A. August Esq. enthusiastically welcomed ACCESS to San Francisco.

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Widowed Without Warning

Joanne lost her husband aboard USAir Flight 427

“Holidays used to be a festive occasion in our home. I would decorate the inside of the house with beautiful Christmas displays while Steve decorated the outside of the house with little white twinkle lights. The first Christmas after he died, I did not want to celebrate the season. I had no magical holiday feeling.”

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Steps to Recovery: In Memory of Darinda

Richard lost his wife and college sweetheart on ComAir flight 3272

“Understand that there will be ups and downs during the many months of grieving. You may suffer deep depression or encounter a panic attack…Helen Keller once stated: When one door of happiness closes, another opens…

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Reflections By A Disaster Psychiatrist

I wish that the media could provide for every victim, a photo, a name, and a life. A life of loves and successes, a life of important accomplishments, a life of hobbies, a life of dreams, a life of important relationships, a life of work and basic contributions to the lives of those around him or her. No matter how long that life spanned…

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Ready for Takeoff

Deb lost her father aboard a private aircraft

Life is like a ride on an airplane
The pleasures of ups and downs of pain.

I always thought of flying as fun and carefree
A way to spend the morning, just my dad and me…

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A Helping Hand

Shari was a volunteer worker for Comair Flight 3272

“I was just a volunteer and I know that my hurt is not as deep as the families, but I visit the memorial whenever I am back in town and before I moved I was there at least once a week to put mementos or just to pray for those who perished and their families. I still think about a young boy who was killed that would be my daughters age, three…”

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Surviving Sudden Loss: Stories from those who have lived it

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Families We Have Helped:

Below are some of the air disasters that we have responded to:
Private Plane - 9/26/12
Rockingham County, VA
Private Plane - 2/27/11
Abu Dhabi
Private Plane - 12/22/10
Barrington, NY
Private Plane - 7/17/10
South Portland, ME
Air India Express 812 - 5/22/10
Mangalore, India
Afriqiyah Airways 8U771- 5/12/10
Tripoli, Libya
Ethiopian Airlines 409 - 1/25/10
Off of Na'ameh, Lebanon
Air France Flight 447 - 6/1/09
Atlantic Ocean
Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 - 2/25/09
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
Continental Flight 3407 - 2/12/09
Clarence Center, NY
US Airways Flight 1549 - 1/15/09
Hudson River, NY
Aeroflot Flight 821 - 9/14/08
Perm, Russia
Spanair JK 5022 - 8/20/08
Madrid, Spain
TAM Airways JJ 3054 - 7/17/07
São Paulo, Brazil
Comair Flight 5191 - 8/27/06
Lexington, KY
Airbus A320-211 - 5/3/06
Off Sochi, Russia
Bellview Airlines - 10/23/05
Nigeria
West Caribbean Airways 708 - 8/16/05
Machiques, Venezuela
Air France Flight 358 - 8/2/05
Ontario, Canada
Kam Air Flight 904 - 2/3/05
Pamir Mountains, Afghanistan
Corporate Airlines 5966 - 10/19/04
Pettis Township, MO
Kish Airlines Flight 1770 - 2/10/04
United Arab Emirates
Georgian Express Flight 126 - 1/17/04
Ontario, Canada
Flash Airlines 604 - 1/3/04

Red Sea

Turkish Airlines 634 - 1/8/03

Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey

US Airways Express/Air Midwest Flight 5481 - 1/8/03

Charlotte, NC

American Flight 587 - 11/12/01

Queens, NY

The events of September 11, 2001

Private Plane - 12/3/00
Milltown, WI
Singapore Airlines 006 - 10/31/00

Chiang Kai-shek Internat'l Airport

Gulf Air Bus A320 - 8/23/00

Persian Gulf, Bahrain

Air France Concorde 4590 - 7/25/00

Gonesse, France

Alaska Airlines 261 - 1/31/00

Pacific Ocean

Egypt Air 990 - 10/31/99

Atlantic Ocean

American Airlines 1420 - 6/1/99

Little Rock, AR

Swissair 111 - 9/2/98

Atlantic Ocean

Private Plane - 8/4/98
Phillips, WI
TWA 800 - 7/17/96

US Air 427 9/8/94

Allegheny County, PA

Long Island, NY

Pan Am 103 - 12/21/88

Lockerbie, Scotland

TWA/United Airlines - Mid-Air Collision- 12/16/1960
Brooklyn & Staten Island, NY
and hundreds of other private, commercial and military air disasters

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