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...seeing a man falling through the air or a wall with hundreds of “missing” signs far surpasses the emotional impact of the written word, at least for me. Next to the piles of rubble, rescue workers look like ants. The Trade Towers defined lower Manhattan and the debris defines the carnage...
Quarterback Vinny Testaverde and the New York Jets were right to make an appearance at the disaster site in downtown Manhattan to buoy the spirits of the workers there...
There are no tidy rules for working through grief. Dr. Larry Hawk, whose sister Kathy Nicosia was a flight attendant aboard American Airlines Flight 11, grieved through working. In the days following the crashes, Hawk manned one of the hundreds of triage units along Manhattan's West Side Highway. But his unit was unique. It was equipped with miniature IV bags, water bowls and dog food to rescue and revive the thousands of pets stranded in crumbling and evacuated buildings in lower Manhattan...
...stepfather as well as her husband, whom she had met at the firm. Their first anniversary would have been Sunday. Joseph Coppo, 19, the namesake of his father, who perished with close friends and co-workers of 25 years, attended a gathering for Cantor families Thursday night at Manhattan's Pierre Hotel. "I went down to talk to my dad's colleagues," he said, "and realized that none of them were there...
Recovering human remains and removing the mountain of debris in lower Manhattan will be an enormous, grim and time-consuming job, but at least there is no doubt about what needs to be done. Once the area has been cleared, the next step is far less certain. Should the World Trade Center be rebuilt, as Mayor Giuliani seemed to promise last week? Or should the 16-acre site be turned into a memorial for the thousands who perished there...