Word: fighters
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...Memorial Walk, which includes a ribbon-shaped sculpture and a flower garden. In Jerusalem a ceremony will be held at the Israel Museum, followed by an exhibit of Joel Meyerowitz's ground zero photos. In Cincinnati, Ohio, 343 empty pairs of boots will stand at the fire-fighter memorial as a tribute to the comrades who died in the World Trade Center collapse. In St. Paul, Minn., patrol officers will pull over and face their vehicles to the east. Motorists in Victoria, Australia, are being asked to turn on their headlights at 8:46 a.m. In Washington the Sept...
Hollywood after Sept. 11 seems to look a lot like Hollywood last summer, notwithstanding a few shots of the Twin Towers edited out of credit sequences. So where are the Sept. 11 movies? The Guys, an indie film about a journalist and a mourning fire fighter, is in the works, but big-time filmmakers and TV executives still seem cautious about bringing the tragedy to the screen, worried they will be accused of bad taste...
Parents like the fact that their kids finally have real role models, not radioactive rock stars and bionic athletes. Being a cop or a fire fighter is now less a trade than a calling. Leaving Shea Stadium after a New York Mets game one summer afternoon, an 8-year-old boy with a baseball glove approaches the cops directing traffic and asks one to sign it. "Don't you want a ballplayer's autograph? Why a cop's?" the officer asks. The boy responds, "Because you helped save the world...
...workers have been drawn to her spot in the vast acres of destruction by a fire fighter's uniform. Civilian clothes blend with the rubble, but reflective bands in the uniforms stand out. There is a uniform just below Genelle: the soft man. It takes 20 long minutes, and then she is saved...
...their mission and to avoid using up all their ammunition. Mortar shells and machine-gun rounds were running short, but the roar of air strikes and the concussions of 2,000-lb. bombs in the mountains were good for morale. B-52 bombers, F-16 and F-18 fighter-bombers, and AC-130 and AH-64 gunships were pulverizing caves and crags. Perez's men set their M-4s to fire single shots instead of three-bullet bursts. "Perez was controlling his rates of fire, pointing out targets, just doing an awesome job," Grippe says. Kraft, the company commander...