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“He returned to himself.” Robin Lamprecht would have turned 80 on April 1. His story has appeared here before, told to the Times Colonist’s Sandra McCulloch on the fifth anniversary of 9/11 and Katie DeRosa on the 10th. At 8:46 a.m., Sept. 11, 2001, senior vice-president Lamprecht was addressing other Aon Corporation executives on the 103rdfloor of Tower Two of the World Trade Centre when a hijacked jet slammed into Tower One. “I’m into my talk about five minutes and I see the plane over there, and it’s a giant plane,” he told McCulloch. “The next second, the plane went into the building. The fireball came out the other side. It was right in front of me. ....