Watching the towers crumble, few remembered America had been attacked on 9/11 in 1976 once before. Kathleen Murray Moran’s own September 11th twenty-five years earlier occurred when her husband Brian, a member of the New York City Bomb Squad was killed defusing a bomb Croatian “freedom-fighters” placed in a Grand Central Station locker before hijacking TWA flight 355 from La Guardia airport. “Life Detonated” is the story of how that bomb ripped through Kathleen’s life. She had spent her childhood in a bug-infested basement of a Bronx tenement, one of eight children, where the door was left open to drug dealers and other villains until she was saved by the man who became a hero to Kathleen and the city of New York. This is a survivor’s story. She started communicating with the wife of the terrorist who killed her husband and helped him plant the bomb, but who was actually instrumental in her healing. She became the founder of Survivors of the Shield, a group that advocates for and provides support and assistance to the spouses and children of New York City police officers killed in the line of duty. It is the story of how she moved from poverty to the suburbs and refused to go back after Brian’s death. It is a story of resilience in the face of senseless tragedy.