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...building guards began directing us toward the parking garage. More than one hundred of us had entered the garage when the dust became too thick to breathe. Somehow my co-worker and I became separated. People in the garage began to yell to those trying to exit the lobby and, slowly, we all re-entered the lobby. I found her again and it’s safe to say we were relieved to find each other. We were directed toward the back of the building, the side that faces away from the direction from which the dust was coming...

Author: By Gregory J. Davis, | Title: The End of Innocence: September 11, 2001 | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

Imagine the densest, thickest nighttime fog possible. Replace the water droplets with extremely fine dust particles. You can only see about 20 feet in any direction. You cannot see the sun you could just ten minutes earlier. The dust is so fine that even with a shirt pulled over your mouth, you can still taste it. The air smells acrid and charred. Your eyes instantly begin to sting and burn but there is no way to keep the dust out of them...

Author: By Gregory J. Davis, | Title: The End of Innocence: September 11, 2001 | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...walked for over an hour to reach my apartment in the East Village. We were covered in cement dust. I remember commenting to her that we may have been exposed to large amounts of asbestos. Her response captured the moment perfectly...

Author: By Gregory J. Davis, | Title: The End of Innocence: September 11, 2001 | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...can’t even find concrete. It’s dust. What we’re calling bodies aren’t really bodies,” a high-ranking police official said, speaking on condition of anonymity...

Author: By Lucas L. Tate, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: U.S. Prepares To Strike Back | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...Congressional and Senate leaders in this room knew that money gets wasted when it's appropriated in the heat of the moment. "I'm an American first," Rep. David Obey, the Appropriations Committee's senior Democrat, told the others. "I want to turn these attackers into fairy dust. But we need to look at the fine print of what we're doing here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism Rends Buildings, Unites Congress | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

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