Now he’s a 48-year-old unemployed attorney. Like the Biblical Job, who lost and gained everything, Scudere searches for an elusive meaning in suffering and redemption. He’s grateful, a bit angry and reflective. “I don’t feel sorry for myself,” he said. “It just shows the randomness of life, and the inevitability of loss. You can lose, and yet you can still be preserved. I lost my job, and yet I have my life.”

Frank Scudere, seen with his wife, Johannah, wasn’t injured in the flight that went into the Hudson River but was then laid off from the giant law firm Skadden, Arps. ”I feel displaced. Who am I? My identity as an attorney — that’s gone.”

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