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...remains are put into one of the 30,000 body bags Mayor Rudolph Giuliani ordered, and taken to staging areas near the blast, including what was once a Brooks Brothers store. From there they are shipped in refrigerated trucks to the medical examiner's office in midtown Manhattan for identification. Because of the number of dead, and the condition of the remains, identification is not always easy. The families of the missing have been asked to fill a seven-page form with information about the victims' dental records, scars, tattoos and inscriptions on wedding rings. Blood relatives have been asked...
...single person in an accident, and the lives of five or six more people--family, friends--are rocked. Each of those five or six lives may touch five or six more, and those still more. If the original death toll is higher--say, 168 in a truck-bomb blast--the shock waves may extend across an entire state. And when the number of fatalities reaches the thousands, the very mental health of the nation can be shaken...
...there's nothing metaphorical about what happened to Genelle Guzman, 31, an office manager who worked on the 64th floor of Tower 1. She called her boyfriend, Roger McMillan, just after the blast and told him she was waiting at her desk, as instructed over the loudspeaker. McMillan, 38, a pressman for a direct-mail company, could see the explosions from his workplace, and told her to get out and meet him in front of Century 21, a discount fashion emporium across from the Trade Center...
Nonetheless, experts recommend several basic security measures the University could pursue to reduce its risk. Staff should be educated to watch for mail bombs and campus garbage cans should be replaced with so-called bomb mitigation containers—which are specially designed to contain and control a blast...
There will be another component, also—one more poignant, more personal and more important than the structural damage—to our memory of the violence. We will remember last words of telephone conversations cut off at the moment of the blast; stories of wheelchairs and their occupants wedged in narrow stairways, and the running bodies who could only hope to escape themselves; the words of a battered, bruised colossus of a firefighter sobbing, “I tried to save them all—but I couldn’t”; ghostly figures, caked...