9/11 Victim's Father: Bin Laden's Death Makes No Difference
LINCOLNWOOD, Ill. (CBS/WBBM) -- The father of a Lincolnwood woman killed in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, says the death of Osama bin Laden makes no difference to him.
As WBBM Newsradio 780's Steve Miller reports, in 2001, Vanessa Kolpak of Lincolnwood was 21 years old. She had just graduated from Georgetown University, working on the 89th floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
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Kolpak was an alum of St. Ignatius College Prep, where she had been in the National Honor Society and had been honored as a National Merit scholar. She had graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown with a major in economics, the Sept. 11 book Triumph over Tragedy recalls.
She had begun working for the securities brokerage firm Keefe, Bruyette in Words in the World Trade Center for about a month at the time of the attacks.
Now, almost 10 years after Kolpak's death, her father Paul says: "This will never go away."
He says the family wants to keep its privacy.
Her father tells Newsradio 780 that the death of Osama bin Laden doesn't make any difference to his family.
"It doesn't bring my daughter back," Paul Kolpak said. "I don't care about anything else."
"The problem is," he continued, "you have a child who dies in a car accident, it's over. I can't even watch a movie that's old and shows the Twin Towers. It breaks my heart."
