For all Americans, today is another anniversary marking the deadliest attacks on U.S. soil.

For some Americans, like Nick and Gale Limansky, who live at Concordia Lutheran Ministries in Jefferson Township, the anniversary hits closer to home — and to the heart.

But Nick, 68, won't be watching the televised memorials.

Chalk it up to a kind of survivor's guilt and emotional scars never completely healed.

They take me to a place I don't want to go,” he said of the memorials. “I was very lucky to survive, and I went through a number of years of dealing with the feeling of guilt.”

On Sept. 10, 2001, Nick was at the World Trade Center's North Tower where he worked for global insurance broker Marsh & McLennan.

His office was on the 99th floor near the top of the tower.

But as fate would have it, a month earlier, the company announced Nick's professional development department would be moved to the company's original headquarters on 46th Street in Manhattan.

His 12-person department was the only one to move from the digs at the Twin Towers.

“I think (the company) was trying to open the space on the 99th floor for more brokers,” he recalled, “and to get us out.”

The rest of his co-workers at the Word Trade Center, where he had worked since 1998, remained.

On Sept. 11, 2011, he got to work on 46th Street at around 8:30 a.m. He was expecting to participate in a teleconference at 9 a.m.

While waiting, he continued to unpack his boxes and straighten out his new cubicle.

Then the first wave of terrorists attacks began. The North Tower was hit at 8:46 a.m.

This is an excerpt. Pick up Wednesday's edition of the Eagle to read Nick and Gale's moving story about their 9/11 experience.