More than 100 people turned out for a somber ceremony in Bridgeport Wednesday, exactly 38 years after a 16-story residential building in the Hollow - the ill-fated L'Ambiance Plaza project - collapsed and killed 28 construction workers. "It was a heartbreaking thing to behold, and I will never forget it," said Mayor Joe Ganim. Paula Gill and her sister remembered their dad, Richard McGill. "Even when it happened, it was like disbelief to think that he was gone because we just thought that he could somehow survive it - and it's just because he was such a presence in our life and, he was our rock," Gill said. Sen. Richard Blumenthal said the victims leave an important legacy -- "one that has surely saved many other lives." "The so-called lift-slab construction process that was used - whereby parts of the building were pre-constructed and then lifted into place - failed the workers tragically; but now it's been banned and that's a tribute to each of them," Blumenthal said.